Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
The state Legislature has discretion in deciding which state lands it pays taxes on, an appeals court said in a ruling that upholds payment of more than $80 million in state property taxes to communities in the Adirondacks and Catskills....
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