{"id":927,"date":"2009-07-28T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/28\/in-the-town-of-peru-local-politics-at-their-worst\/"},"modified":"2009-07-28T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T11:58:00","slug":"in-the-town-of-peru-local-politics-at-their-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/07\/28\/in-the-town-of-peru-local-politics-at-their-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"In the town of Peru, local politics at their worst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent several days this spring talking with Peru town supervisor Donald Covel, his wife Linda and others in their community.<\/p>\n<p>The topic?  A great little town in free-fall, wracked by political in-fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Peru used to be famous for its apples, and its Jamaican pickers.  Now?  Donald Covel has been convicted of official misconduct. <\/p>\n<p>My sense talking to Mr. Covel was that he was in way over his head and had made some pretty bad choices.<\/p>\n<p>But he also seemed like a local son who truly loves his community.<\/p>\n<p>The good news here is that small, local governments can be far more resilient than big institutions like New York&#8217;s state Senate.<\/p>\n<p>As Mr. Covel moves out of the headlines, a lot of locals will have to step up and try to rebuild the goodwill and competence that once defined Peru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent several days this spring talking with Peru town supervisor Donald Covel, his wife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927"}],"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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}