Adirondack Explorer

Outtakes NY must acquire Whitney Park

arlier this year, New York state agreed to contribute $600 million toward the construction of a new stadium for the Buffalo Bills. People differ on whether it’s a good use of taxpayer funds. Without wading into that debate, I will say this: if the state can spend $600 million on a football stadium, it can afford to buy—for far less money—one of the last sizable tracts of family-owned forestland

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