- Syracuse: Who can save the CNY film hub? State seeks partner to breathe life into $15M studio
- Syracuse: Work Stopped at $90M Soraa plant.
- Rochester: Transformative Photonics deal nixed
- Albany: SUNY Poly workers at Fab 8 face uncertain future
Update 1/10/17:
Albany: Money for SUNY Poly's 450mm program dries up
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There are few success stories of successful business creation projects when government is the lead developer. Bureaucrats have no idea of how to get things done, politics and politicians invariably interfere with sound business decisions and government involvement is ripe for corruption and play for pay. Cuomo's entire approach has been based on gambling with taxpayer monies to entice development. That cannot and will not work.
"Is Cuomo's Upstate Economic Development Program Collapsing?"
You wouldn't really know it by listening to the local media.
The backstory on this is Andy has an unusually strong and now weird attachment to his father's image and legacy. His dad railed against nuclear and in the back of his mind Andy always wanted Indian Point closed.
Along comes an energy company that donates to Andy, and is embroiled in a corruption investigation with Todd Howe and Joe Percoco, so in return Andy pulls the strings in favor of the donor.
You would not know much listening or reading the local media. Most of what is printed or said is fluff and social. There is no objective, investigative reporting here. That is one reason we live in a very backward area.
A few months ago our local politicos & certain members of our local news media did a hatchet job on Claudia Tenney for questioning the wisdom of spending millions on this Marcy project. She was an obstructionist, wasn't endorsed by her party, you get the picture. Turn out she was right! Now that the local friends & family plan members are eating crow, will they admit to marginalizing Ms.Tenney for speaking out? Hell no!
One has two hopes for Tenney; that her election is just a start and that she has a good memory of those who worked to defeat her.
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