New York Obtains Additional Finch Pruyn Adirondack Lands
More about the new Finch Pruyn lands.
Public Lands Policy
State Purchases of More Former Finch Lands
The state has taken title to some smaller but interesting parcels as part of the Finch acquisition.
DEC Readies ATV Use Experiment on the Kushaqua Tract
Pretty much what you would expect from Mr. Bauer and the Adirondack almanac.
Gun sales may aid turkeys
The turkeys in Washington DC and Albany are helping the turkeys in New York. Makes perfect sense.
‘Rock snot’ found to be native algae species in New Brunswick
Apparently at least in New Brunswick, rock snot is native but only now blooming because of higher water temperatures.
Started to Do More Maps
With the Internet at home, it’s always a distraction from getting any work done on the blog. Sure, it’s nice for searching for a code scrap or a solution to a particular coding problem, or to download a data file, but the Internet is mostly a big distraction from reading or doing blogposts.
I’ve figured out an easy way to get block-group level American Community Survey data from the Census department. The Census Factfinder lacks block-group data. It’s called the National Historical Census Database. Not only does it have Census data up to 2012, it also has old data back to 1790. It might be interesting to do some historical mapping of things like population, especially when mapping urban growth patterns. The trick to using that data is to make sure you use the NH Census Shapefiles and not the TIGER/Line as otherwise the codes will not be able to be linked.
Without the Internet at home, I sure have a lot more time to do mapping and other activities.
NY State Constitution Article 1 Section 9.
As of November 6, 2013, pursuant to a vote of the people the previous day …
§9. 1. No law shall be passed abridging the rights of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government, or any department thereof; nor shall any divorce be granted otherwise than by due judicial proceedings; except as hereinafter provided, no lottery or the sale of lottery tickets, pool-selling, book-making, or any other kind of gambling, except lotteries operated by the state and the sale of lottery tickets in connection therewith as may be authorized and prescribed by the legislature, the net proceeds of which shall be applied exclusively to or in aid or support of education in this state as the legislature may prescribe, and except pari-mutual betting on horse races as may be prescribed by the legislature and from which the state shall derive a reasonable revenue for the support of government, and except casino gambling at no more than seven facilities as authorized and prescribed by the legislature shall hereafter be authorized or allowed within this state; and the legislature shall pass appropriate laws to prevent offenses against any of the provisions of this section.
It does sound a bit schizophrenic. They should really reconsider re-writing that paragraph to make a non-run-on sentence. Laws should be understandable, and should only deal with one topic, rather then randomly stringing gambling and divorce to a section dealing with the rights of the people to assemble.
A look at our state's constitution and how it intermingles freedom to assemble, gambling, and divorce law.