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Can Economic Conference Deliver on Promise of Growth?

BUFFALO, NY (August 8, 2011) - The recent Accelerate Upstate economic development conference in Buffalo promised to produce a five-year plan to improve the western New York economy. But as WRVO Innovation Trail reporter Daniel Robison tells us, translating that document into economic success could be tough.

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