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Peter is the creator and editor of The Water Front Online, the region’s only news organization dedicated to environmental issues in the Finger Lakes and Upstate New York. Have a tip? Send it to peter@fingerlakes1.com.
For a decade, the Cuomo Administration has narrowly applied state environmental law to a pair of Finger Lakes industrial projects in ways that favor their out-of-state owners at the expense of those most likely to be harmed. The state DEC has not required environmental impact statements from the Greenidge power plant on Seneca Lake or the Cargill Salt Mine on Cayuga Lake despite public concerns about environmental risk.
Itâs hard to write accurately and concisely about the last 12 months without using expletives.
Letâs be honest. Between the pandemic, the pre-election hype, the post-election squabbling, the continuing and exacerbated economic doldrums, the business closings, the losses of members of our community â 2020 has been a handful.
The challenge in looking back over the last year to find the most important stories is to find the stories that not only documented the first draft of history at the time, but that also captured the spirit of the Teche Area and the community as a whole.
The first thought in compiling this list was to go by web traffic, since itâs a simple and quantifiable running of what is read online. Unfortunately, that would mean the entire list would be made of the crime stories from the year, so that method was rejected.
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Thunderstorms likely this evening. Then a chance of scattered thunderstorms overnight. Heavy downpours and frequent lightning with storms. Low 62F. Winds SE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 90%..
Tonight
Thunderstorms likely this evening. Then a chance of scattered thunderstorms overnight. Heavy downpours and frequent lightning with storms. Low 62F. Winds SE at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of rain 90%. Updated: April 13, 2021 @ 5:32 pm