| NEWSPAPER ARTICLES | |
| Link | Description |
| ONTARIO
PRODS WNY ON MARKETING OF NIAGARA Buffalo News Saturday, April 1, 2000 |
"Ontario development officials, several years ahead of their U.S. counterparts in marketing the Niagara area, invited Western New Yorkers to join them Friday in promoting the region as one of the world's great binational destinations. "We're married to each other," said John Farrow, president of the Canadian Urban Institute. "We live in the same house. The question is whether we're going to meet the international market hand in hand or go our separate ways?"..." |
| BORDERNET TIES
SIX CITIES INTO SINGLE TRADE REGION Buffalo News Friday, May 5, 2000 |
"It's the fourth largest trade corridor in the world, a region that boasts 9 million people and 30,000 corporations. Until recently, few game plans for economic growth have positioned Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Hamilton, Rochester and Syracuse as a single trade region. But a binational coalition that includes several corporate Goliaths is forging a plan to give the "BorderNet" region its own identity in hopes of bringing new jobs and investment to a corridor that is comprised of six distinct -- and fiercely independent -- population centers..." |
| 'BORDERNET'
CITIES PLOT STRATEGIES FOR TRADE, TOURISM, INVESTMENT Buffalo News Friday, June 16, 2000 |
"A push to forge a common agenda for economic growth among six fiercely independent cities in Upstate New York and Ontario appears to be gaining momentum. A binational coalition of business leaders, economic developers and public officials met in Buffalo Thursday to plot strategies for promoting trade, tourism and investment in a region that organizers are calling "BorderNet"..." |
| THE POWER
BROKERS AS THE NIAGARA POWER PROJECT COMES UP FOR RELICENSING, QUESTIONS ARE BEING RAISED ABOUT THE TRADE-OFF OF CHEAP HYDROELECTRICITY FOR JOBS--AND ABOUT HOW WE CAN KEEP MORE OF THIS "LIQUID GOLD" IN WNY Buffalo News Sunday, July 9, 2000 |
"The Niagara region's great treasure -- the cheapest industrial electricity in the nation -- is often touted as a savior of sorts, an essential ingredient in turning around a Rust Belt economy struggling to stay afloat. It's a myth..." |
| OUTWARD
BOUND HOW DID NIAGARA'S CHEAP POWER END UP NEARLY 500 MILES AWAY IN A TINY CORNER OF RHODE ISLAND? AND WNY DOESN'T NIAGARA ITSELF BENEFIT MORE FROM ITS MOST PRECIOUS RESOURCE? Buffalo News Tuesday, July 11, 2000 |
"The sale of Niagara's power to out-of-state customers is just one piece of a puzzle that, when fully assembled, seems to shortchange the region..." |