Stone Energy Corporation is requesting two permits for Marcellus Shale gas drilling projects in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, in the Upper Delaware River watershed. This area has been classified as Special Protection Waters by the Delaware River Basin Commission with "exceptionally high scenic, recreational, ecological and/or water supply values."
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2010 is going to be an interesting year for politics in Putnam County. The sides are lining up for a couple of Legislative seats and the race for the County Executive's seat. On the legislative side the Republican machine is gunning to shoot down one of its own, Tony Fusco, trying to remove the...
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"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship. . . . The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom." Dr. Benjamin Rush - Signer, Declaration of Independence.
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What happens when you mix a live performance with soprano Kristin Chenoweth, alto Patti Lupone, tenor Paul Groves(!) and baritone Sir Thomas Allen with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Marin Alsop and toss them all together into the middle of a Voltaire classic directed by Lonny Price? You get a concert version of...
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“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” - Aesop Good Wednesday Morning, Dear Friends, I am taking time today to announce my candidacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton as she takes her position with the new incoming Administration. My only other announced opponent in this race is...
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“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” - Robert Frost Good Tuesday Morning, Mother Nature had a little fun with us yesterday with temps reaching into the mid 60’s downstate and hovering around 60 here until late last night. This morning the ground is covered with sleet. You’ve...
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