Good news for Schenectady
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- October
- 31
  In a rare piece of good news for a beleagured upstate city, Gov. Eliot Spitzer and GE officials are expected to announce later this morning that the company is going to add about 500 white-collar jobs in Schenectady.
 GE, which once employed about 40,000 workers in the city about 15 miles northwest of Albany but now has fewer than 4,000, will add engineers and other white-collar staff to help meet a growing demand for wind power. The firm is trying to expand its niche in the rapidly growing alternative-energy market.
  While Albany and the Hudson Valley have been flourishing for the past several years, Schenectady has been as depressed as any city in the region.
 Spitzer is expected to announce what state incentives were needed to help GE decide to locate the jobs in Schenectady instead of Atlanta, which was also in the running and usually cleans upstate’s clock in competition for investments.
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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. 
