Upstate New York Needs Regional Cooperation

Gov. Eliot Spitzer announced Wednesday a tailored approach to revitalizing the upstate economy based on the strengths and geography of individual cities.

"We often talk about the upstate economy as if upstate was some monolithic region, but quite the opposite is true," Spitzer said in Buffalo, where he unveiled an ambitious agenda for western New York, a region particularly hard hit by population declines troubling all of upstate.

By CAROLYN THOMPSON

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