NYPress.com - New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more » NY http://nypress.com New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:53:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Tech Effect: New York Looks To High-Tech To Boost Upstate Region http://nypress.com/the-tech-effect-new-york-looks-to-high-tech-to-boost-upstate-region/ http://nypress.com/the-tech-effect-new-york-looks-to-high-tech-to-boost-upstate-region/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:02:16 +0000 City and State http://nypress.com/?p=58642

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is pushing for high-tech investment in New York, has touted the University of Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering. (Photos from College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering)

New York City isn’t the only part of the state that has been attracting a growing number of high-tech companies.

In upstate areas struggling to rebound from the recession and recover from the longer-term decline in manufacturing, the state has been recruiting companies like Yahoo! and IBM to add or expand operations, create new jobs and assist in rebuilding the economy.

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Assembly Member Richard Gottfried and State Sen. Tom Duane, who chair their respective Health committee, sponsored the bill.
Despite the debate over classifying waterboarding as torture, Gottfried said that those who have licenses to heal should not assist police officers, prison guards or CIA agents in inflicting pain.
“This bill would protect patients in the community from having their bodies put in the hands of people who had misused their medical education, training and license in that way,” Gottfried said in a statement.
The legislation was recently reported out of the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee, which has jurisdiction over professional licensure. The bill is reportedly the first of its kind in the nation.
“At the very least,” Gottfried said, “the state would be taking a clear moral stand.”

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