Fired state official says Pyramid lobbied unfairly in bid to buy Onondaga Lake-front property.
- in the albany times union

FAA approves national change over to STARS flight tracking system, which was tested in Syracuse.
- in the providence journal

Fenner wind farms send power downstate

"For all of the college seniors who were on that right path to success in the real world, Sept. 11 was an unexpected detour. Detours are annoying, unplanned, and make you put your trip on hold. You spend hours, days even, trying to find your way back to the original road you had wanted to take."
- KATHERINE GETZ, syracuse university grad, in the boston globe

Tom Park, Billy Fucillo's straight man in those awful car commercials, has taped over 100,000 spots for auto dealerships across the country. The associated press tells the story of how he taped 59 commercials in a day.

Syracuse University law professor William Banks speaks at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which gives law enforcement wiretap authority against suspect foreign agents.
- in senate.gov

"I was flying before. I haven't flown since," said Anatoly Savich, 28, a furniture-maker who lives in Syracuse, N.Y., and is a native of Ukraine. "Before, we lived not worrying about anything. But now, I have fear of going to another country, even my home country."
- in the washington post

"Tara Nelson's memory of Sept. 11 has become cloudy. She remembers hurrying down 44 flights of stairs in Tower One from her office at the New York Society of Security Analysts after the planes hit. She had just graduated from Syracuse University, a sociology major who had landed a job as an event coordinator. It wasn't what she had trained for, but each day as she stepped out of the subway at the end of her commute from her parents' home in Fairfield, she thrilled at the sight of the twin towers. It is that view she wants to remember, of two tall buildings scraping the clouds, and not the one she witnessed Sept. 11."
- JANE GORDON, in the ny times

Mohawks from Upstate and Canada worked to build the tall steel towers in New York City, including the World Trade Center. Ironworker Leonard Oakes, who grew up in Syracuse, is featured in the ottawa citizen. Also, npr has a series of recorded recollections from Mohawk iron workers and their families on the World Trade Center.

Emerging political power; Hispanics making their mark upstate

"Children who live in public housing, go to public schools and play in parks in cities across the state are being exposed to high levels of toxic pesticides, according to a report released yesterday by Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The study, which surveyed 15 parks, schools and public housing projects in New York City, Albany, Buffalo, Syracuse and Yonkers, as well as 73 shops, found that highly toxic pesticides were being used frequently even though less toxic and equally effective pesticides were available."
- LYDIA POLGREEN, in the ny times

"The telecommunications boom had turned to bust in a stunning about-face that will have put 16,400 Corning employees out of work by year's end - up to 3,500 locally - leaving the newly recruited physicists stranded and this single-industry town reeling from the economic cyclone."
- MAREGO ATHANS, in the baltimore sun