What about the Southern Tier?
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- July
- 17
The economic-development plan outlined at a meeting in Albany sounded promising: more financial services for New York City, nanotechnology for the Albany region, Ithaca and the mid-Hudson Valley, bioscience for Buffalo, Syracuse and Long Island, “cleantech’’ for Syracuse and Rochester.
But then George Miner, head of Southern Tier Economic Growth, put up his hand.
“The Southern Tier is not in here and I’m not sure why,’’ he said to the consultants and state officials who had just outlined the state’s economic-development strategy. “I’m supposed to report back (to people in Elmira) and I’m not sure what I’m going to say.’’
Not to worry, said Jim Singer of A.T. Kearney, the firm that prepared the report.
“We would expect the Southern Tier to be intimately involved in this strategy,’’ he said.
Just not actually mentioned in the report.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
