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The Upstate: State
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The musical battering ram called THE UPSTATE is comprised of 4 ridiculously attractive members. Seasonally based in a little seaside state named Rhode Island but strangely enough 2/4 of the band hails from Massachusetts. They has been called the most charming cavalier band in all existence, not to mention it’s been rumored they have a wide variety of super powers. Founded in a small, poorly furnished dorm room during the last days of a spring semester in 2006 it wasn’t superhero powers that got them a steadily increasing fan base and a growing roster of outrageously catchy original songs.
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A proposed $1 billion Upstate Revitalization Fund that will invest in businesses and ininfrastructure to create shovel ready sites. Governor Spitzer said he would announce more details on this fund on January 16th when he delivers his State of Upstate address in Buffalo, and Unshackle Upstate partners look forward to learning more.
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Not surprisingly, Prison Health, which is based outside Nashville, is no longer working in most of those upstate jails. But it is hardly out of work. Despite a tarnished record, Prison Health has sold its promise of lower costs and better care, and become the biggest for-profit company providing medical care in jails and prisons. It has amassed 86 contracts in 28 states, and now cares for 237,000 inmates, or about one in every 10 people behind bars.
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Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s announcement that he would name a co-chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation, based in Buffalo, to focus on revitalizating the upstate economy brought joy to Byron W. Brown. Read more …
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Upstaters can be pleased with Spitzer's infrastructure projects but as useful and expensive as they stand to be, they are the easy part. It is urgent that he not let up on the state reforms needed to make upstate an economically competitive place to live and do business. Until that is done, this state will continue to bleed.
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[T]he upstate-downstate tension is more than just a feud between rural Republicans and urban Democrats. (State Assemblyman John Ravitz attests to what it is like to be a downstate Republican in the midst of this fray)
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