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Everyone Benefits from Working Together

Post by Jennifer Jones

During my sophomore year at Honeoye Falls-Lima High School, I had the opportunity to take a Sports and Entertainment Marketing class. After completing that class, I came to realize how interested I was in business and marketing. I took on my first internship with an advertising and marketing firm in the summer of 2007 and grew to love it even more. After being connected to the Eyes on the Future planning group, I have gained more insight on how businesses run and I have had a great experience working with the committee to plan the 2008 Economic Summit.

Rochester in 2020: A suburb of Toronto?

Buffalo State professor Bruce Fisher thinks Upstate NY is in for a bleak future, but that the Rochester area may fare better than most. He advocates regional planning and connecting to a "binational region encompassing Toronto, Buffalo, and Rochester as a potential world powerhouse."

Is his advice sound? Is he right that Rochester is positioned to thrive amid the problems he sees on the horizon? Read his article Predicting 2020 in Upstate NY in Buffalo's Artvoice online edition.