MOUNTAIN VIEWS: BIG APPLE PARTIES AT OUR EXPENSE
Every once in a while, since I reached the age of reason, I’ve heard residents of upstate New York, particularly Western New York, talk about “seceding” from New York City.
The thought-to-word process usually took the form of mumbling and grumbling about some new fiscal atrocity dreamed up by Big Apple legislators and visited upon the upstate regions, which benighted Manhattan residents seem to think is generally centered somewhere around Peekskill. More often than not, I was amused. Now, I am paying attention.