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[QUOTE="Crusty, post: 906543, member: 2265"]
I don't live in Syracuse and never have, but I can tell you that when  was growing up in Utica we lost every competition for industry with Syracuse and one of the main reasons was becasue it had SU. Hard to compete with that 50 miles away.

Clearly, both towns were politically corrupt, which meant that nothing could get done without the pols and their friends getting their share. Sometimes, it is legal - patronage jobs and the like and sometimes it is just political horse trading - you vote for mine and I will vote for yours. Sometimes it is acceptable and sometime not.

In some towns however, splitting up the pie is more important than baking another pie. It appears that this may be the case with the new stadium deal. The numbers in this deal are so large that the special interests will fight to the death to get what they consider their fair share. It seems to me that is what this this political dust up is all about.

I don't know the Mayor and know nothing about her so I looked up her background. Her Bio is everything you need to know to understand her position. The city website: "In 1999, Miner earned her J.D. from SUNY Buffalo and began working at Blitman & King, LLP as a labor lawyer, representing unions and employees."

Where you stand on an issue depends on where you sit.The Mayor sits with the unions. Until they are happy that they have been taken care of, she will be not be happy.

She would do well to learn the lessons of history and be careful to take care of the Golden Goose for SU is the best thing Syracuse has going for it IMO.
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