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Article: UPSTATE NEEDS A LOT MORE THAN REFORM IN ALBANY.(Opinion)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2004
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Byline: Thomas C. Buckel Jr.
I commend Mark Bitz for his terrific commentary Oct. 3. I fear, however, that our region's problems run deeper and require more than state legislative reform.
Let's put our current situation in perspective: For almost 140 years, from the 1820s through the 1960s, our region was the leader of industrial, economic and social innovation in America. Upstate is now mired at the bottom of all objective measures of economic progress in the nation, despite enormous natural and man-made resources, deep citizen involvement and countless development initiatives. It is getting worse, not better.
I argue that Upstate has lost its ...
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