Proving that those in Albany give as little thought as possible to the jobs situation in Central New York, the state decided to give DeWitt a Hollywood-type movie studio.
Central New Yorkers don't book the acts at the amphitheater - instead, the task of reading the musical tastes of the locals went to someone far better suited: a big company in Los Angeles. And for Central New York, the state showed just how brainy they think we are around here. That's where the state spent billions on super high-tech. Of course, it doesn't get any cooler than nanotechnology. And many hundreds of millions to give Utica a new name, 'Nano Utica,' the new capital of nanotechnology. Fenster New York state spent nearly a billion dollars to give Buffalo a solar technology industry. Fenster's latest book is 'Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation' (Crown).
