{"id":1900,"date":"2013-12-19T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2013-12-19T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T17:14:53","slug":"a-m-news-thursday-12-19-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/a-m-news-thursday-12-19-13\/","title":{"rendered":"A.M. NEWS THURSDAY 12-19-13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Governor Cuomo announced that his Administration has approved a new program from\u00a0 Esurance, which allows policyholders to install a device free of charge in their cars that helps prevent teens from texting and calling while driving.\u00a0 Esurance policyholders may install an in-car device into their teen\u2019s car that, in conjunction with an Esurance app installed on their teen driver\u2019s phone, can limit the use of text, email, application usage, and phone calls while driving, with the exception of 911. The device can also monitor driving behavior, including speeding, hard braking &amp; fast acceleration, more information is available at\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/dmv.ny.gov\/youngerdriver\">dmv.ny.gov\/youngerdriver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Governor Cuomo announced the availability of $500,000 to aid farmland protection efforts, where Municipalities can apply for grants of up to $15,000 to amend local laws to better protect farmland from being converted to non-agricultural use. Application materials and\u00a0 webinar information is available for download at\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agriculture.ny.gov\/RFPS.html\">agriculture.ny.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Cuomo announced that his Administration has approved a new program from\u00a0 Esurance, which allows policyholders to install a device free of charge in their cars that helps prevent teens from texting and calling while driving.\u00a0 Esurance policyholders may install &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/a-m-news-thursday-12-19-13\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3243,41,6061,6062,6059],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-esurance","tag-governor-cuomo","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-wcdo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}