In the Democrat and Chronicle today (section 7B), 7.3 Million have left NYS since 1960. 30,000 have left Monroe County ( I bet this number is low). I would also bet that the few moving in are here to get welfare and social programs. Not here to work. Its the taxes that are out of control. I would bet this number goes up faster in the next few years as more get unemployed. So why would a company want to build or locate here Mr. Mayor? What is Duffy and Cuomo doing about this problem? Nothing. They are worried about the gays and their ability to get married in NYS. They are not worried about taxes, job loss and population loss. The #1 problems. As for Downtown Rochester, I doubt any business will move in. I even have my doubts Kodak will be in Rochester in 3 years. 343 State Street may be empty as well.

Smart1 said it all. What did we expect the Mayor to say? (just for the record, Birdseye move was one year ago, many of those people are still out of work!)

I like Mayor Tom Richards comment “Correcting it” means first, trying to convince PAETEC’s buyer, Windstream, to move forward with plans to build at Midtown Plaza. Richards has been playing phone tag with the Little Rock, Arkansas, CEO. Sure they want to pay higher taxes and spend money on a new building they do not need. They will be cutting costs and downsizing Mr. Mayor. They do not want to talk to you. What are you thinking? No one gave a crap when Birdseye moved 400 jobs and their HQ out of Rochester a few years ago. The Mayor Himself sold RG&E to a foreign company and jobs were lost in Rochester. He made 10 million. No one gets it. NYS taxes are to high. Governor Mario Cuomo is more worried about NYS being gay friendly then being business friendly. We have empty commercial buildings all over Rochester and NYS. Businesses use to be in each one in Rochester paying taxes and employing workers. Now they are empty. Now the Unemployed are leaving NYS and Rochester for good. Had Duffy looked at the Paetec books and seen 1 billion in debt he would have thought twice about how this company would stay in business in the long term. No brains here. Lets jump and worry about the parachute later attitude is not how to get things done.

Wait a minute! Robach says that the signing that occurred in 2010 gave the impression that this was a done deal. But, I remember reading that someone, maybe Duffy, said that signing was a positive step forward, but that it wasn't a done deal yet, or words to that effect. That's why I wasn't surprised earlier this week when Paetec pulled out of the deal and it was announced that there could be no legal repercussions. Do we have to do the political finger pointing about everything?