A non-legal post.

Stealing a link from Joel at Small Town Lawyer, although the editorializing is solely my own:

While it's true that NY is in an economic funk and upstate specifically has some very serious issues, sometimes misery loves company. For every pie-in-the-sky dreamer that says we just need to cut taxes and suddenly it'll be flowers and rainbows and kids never leaving the town they grew up in (I could write a book on that alone), there are studies that show sometimes our economic and "brain drain" issues are the result of larger social and economic forces and aren't entirely upstate or NY based.

My two cents, anyway.