{"id":6507,"date":"2012-09-03T13:34:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T17:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=6507"},"modified":"2012-09-03T08:39:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T12:39:16","slug":"afternoon-read-syracuse-paper-explores-tupper-lake-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2012\/09\/03\/afternoon-read-syracuse-paper-explores-tupper-lake-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon Read:  Syracuse paper explores Tupper Lake fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at NCPR we&#8217;ve covered the debate over the Adirondack Club and Resort so exhaustively that we sometimes get lost in the weeds and the detail.\u00a0 It&#8217;s refreshing when a journalist from &#8220;outside&#8221; comes in and takes a new, broad look at the dispute in Tupper Lake.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2012\/09\/tupper_lake_development_projec.html\">Hart Seely at the Syracuse Post-Standard has done<\/a>.\u00a0 His report gives a broad, balanced, human look at a complicated battle that has raged now for nearly a decade.\u00a0 Seely gets at the heart of just how nasty this dust-up has become.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lately, the local paper has treated Phyllis Thompson like Public Enemy No. 1. In the normally congenial pages of the Tupper Lake Free Press, she\u2019s become \u201cQueen Phyllis,\u201d a \u201cbully\u201d who throws her weight around, putting neighbors out of work. One letter writer encouraged local businesses to deny her service, and an editorial piped in, \u201cWho can blame them?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ouch.\u00a0 Thompson is, of course, a 69-year-old landowner who has joined in the lawsuit aimed at invalidating Adirondack Park Agency permits for the new resort.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuse.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2012\/09\/tupper_lake_development_projec.html\">Read the full article here.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great, broad primer on the whole affair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at NCPR we&#8217;ve covered the debate over the Adirondack Club and Resort so exhaustively [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6508,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6507\/revisions\/6508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}