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Adirondack Explorer

Editorial

We appreciate New York State’s investments aimed at making this part of the world a bit better and enabling more people to share in all it has to offer. That doesn’t mean, though, that we don’t question how the state is prioritizing those investments.

Take, for instance, the roughly $500 million of taxpayers’ funds that the governor and state legislators have invested over the past few years in the Olympic Regional Development Authority to upgrade winter facilities at Whiteface, Lake

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