{"id":8153,"date":"2013-05-20T10:49:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=8153"},"modified":"2013-05-20T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T14:49:32","slug":"morning-read-school-budgets-graduates-and-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/05\/20\/morning-read-school-budgets-graduates-and-casinos\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read: school budgets, graduates, and casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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OK \u2013 Nora Flaherty\u2019s on vacation, so I make no promises about matching her lively tone here\u2026but there is new this morning, and somebody\u2019s got to do it.<\/p>\n

Brian Mann and I sorted through a lot of school budget proposals<\/a>, and a lot of the challenges North Country schools face, again, this year. There\u2019s flat, or worse, state aid, shrinking school populations and the state cap on property tax increases. Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin is to sign his state\u2019s end-of-life bill. And Matt Richmond reports\u00a0 on the fine line undocumented farm workers must walk, living \u201cillegally\u201d in New York State. It isn\u2019t a new story, but immigration reform may have some answers.<\/p>\n

The Watertown Daily Times has pictures and all from commencement exercises at St. Lawrence University<\/a> and SUNY Potsdam<\/a>. Also a report that counties may get the state\u2019s OK to close their old law libraries<\/a> in favor of offering inmates electronic access to legal materials. It\u2019ll save money, but inmate advocates \u00a0worry.<\/p>\n

In the Syracuse Post Standard,\u00a0 Oneida Nation leader Ray Halbritter reflects on the deal he just made with Gov. Cuomo<\/a>, to share\u00a0 a quarter of the revenues from the Oniedas’ big Turning Stone Casino with the state. The deal came after Cuomo announced his push for three new non-Native casinos in upstate New York — it also guarantees no one but the Oneidas will be opening a casino in the 10-county region around Turningstone. (Halbritter says he’d never met Andrew Cuomo before, called him “a reasonable man.” But\u00a0 he recalled the negotiations with Gov. Mario Cuomo that led to the 1988 compact allowing native casinos in New York, “his sleeves were rolled up and he just impressed me as a very hard-working and very respectful person and very much involved in understanding the issues, understanding what was involved.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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