Central New York Is Changing Its Name? Oh, Please.

Gimme blandness, and something that I can thumb on my phone.

Apparently politicians to the east of here have seen fit to change the name of their district from “Central Leatherstocking Region” to “Central New York”.  The best part is the reasoning – after “careful consideration”, they decided that the old name never created an identity for their region.  OK, let’s think about the new name [...]

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Syracuse – Allergic to Good Names?

Any city has its share of things with silly names. Syracuse, my hometown, is a stellar representative of this tendency. I often wonder how businesses can operate with names that are diametrically opposed to the intent of their business, extremely unoriginal, or just plain odd. Actually, unoriginal is probably OK – this implies average, and [...]

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