Last week, Alcoa announced that it will reopen one of its plants in Massena, restoring more than 350 jobs.<\/p>\n
Last month, Laurentian Aerospace went public with news that its airline refurbishment project in Plattsburgh appears to have the green light from investors — a prospect that could eventually bring 900 new jobs to Clinton County.<\/p>\n
In November, another Canadian firm announced that it will open a medicine manufacturing plant in Massena, promising as many as 100 new jobs.<\/p>\n
There are smaller signs of fresh energy as well.<\/p>\n
Last month, NCPR’s David Sommerstein profiled a grocer in Jefferson County who’s reviving his parents’ store, this time with a focus on locally-produced food.<\/p>\n
This isn’t meant to be an everything-is-rosy lullaby.\u00a0 Clearly, times are still tough out there for a lot of businesses and a lot of families.<\/p>\n
But these are major, hopeful developments, right? We just weren’t hearing much of this good news in 2008 and 2009.<\/p>\n
And the timing couldn’t be better, because we appear to be part of a national trend of big job cuts in the public sector.<\/p>\n
In last week’s job report, private industry added more than 110,000 new jobs nationwide, while government employers cut roughly 10,000 positions — a trend which has been on-going over the last year.<\/p>\n
With a little luck and hard work, there might actually be some new jobs available here in the region, as paychecks from Albany (and from local property tax payers) continue to dwindle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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