Syra-what?

Every time I read a story in Syracuse's Post Standard like this one, I wonder just why it is that the Buffalo News and our various TV and radio news outlets aren't sending reporters one hundred fifty miles down the friggin' Thruway and asking the folks there just how it is that they are consistently adding jobs while we are not. I mean, it's clearly the case that a city can be located in relatively business-unfriendly Upstate New York, and can be fighting a longterm continual loss of manufacturing jobs, and still manage to add jobs in other parts of the private sector. So what gives? What does Onondaga County have that we don't have? And why aren't we interested in find out what that is?