http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/01/panetta-advocated-for-nyc-statehood-in-1970/ Buffalo and Western New York's online news resource Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:16:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2009/01/panetta-advocated-for-nyc-statehood-in-1970/comment-page-1/#comment-34070 Timothy Domst Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:09:01 +0000 http://buffalopundit.wnymedia.net/blogs/?p=7661#comment-34070 I'm sure the people behind the real problems of NYS love this upstate vs. downstate stuff. Any one of these problems dwarf any unfairness due to the difference in how the state treats the city vs. upstate; the corrupt structure of the state government, the authorities, the state mandates, and the bloated cost of state workers. I’m sure the people behind the real problems of NYS love this upstate vs. downstate stuff. Any one of these problems dwarf any unfairness due to the difference in how the state treats the city vs. upstate; the corrupt structure of the state government, the authorities, the state mandates, and the bloated cost of state workers.

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