In an election year where Americans are analyzed in terms of demographics (black or white, young or old, “educated” or “uneducated”), with candidates choosing which ones “matter,” depersonalization seems to be the spirit of the times. In Myanmar, the government is pretending that hundreds of thousands of its cyclone-hit people are not really there, […]

The ESDC has done a big re-launch of the famous I Love New York tourism brand. The new ads are going to be targeting Northeastern states, trying to get economically strapped vacationers to drive over the border and head Upstate instead of just down to NYC. Good timing for it, I suppose. […]

The Buffalo News is airing speculation that Upstate czar Daniel Gundersen may be on Gov. Paterson’s chopping block — whether as part of a general post-Spitzer housecleaning, or as a sop to Manhattan interests, remains unclear.
Meanwhile, the Rochester D&C is looking at complaints from the League of Women Voters that Gundersen was playing too fast […]

You will be amazed!

It seems that the Empire State might not be restored to its former glory after all.

Will Paterson be willing or able to adopt the Spitzer administration’s methodical approach to Upstate revival? Should he?

The lady and the tiger.

Reactions to Spitzer’s “State of the Upstate” speech.

Spitzer offers a new rhetorical framing for Upstate’s woes.

If she can’t make it here, can she make it anywhere?