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edit   Capital District Shortcut: P:CDNY The Capital District is a region in upstate New York that generally refers to the four counties surrounding Albany, the capital of the state: Albany County, Schenectady County, Rensselaer County, and Saratoga County. Often the other counties of the Albany-Schenectady-Amsterdam Combined Statistical Area and Greene County are included, especially for economic and demographic compilations and regional planning. The Capital District is notable for many historical and industrial events. The Battle of Saratoga and the Albany Plan of Union are two historical events from before American independence which are now considered of national and sometimes also of international importance. Many multinational corporations were founded in the Capital District including New York Central Railroad, American Express, General Electric, American Locomotive Company, and International Paper. The Capital District was first settled by the Dutch in the early 1600s and came under British control in 1664. Albany has been the permanent capital of the state of New York since 1797. Read more... Show new selections edit   Selected article Tech Valley is a marketing moniker for the eastern part of the US state of New York. It includes the Hudson Valley and Capital District, along with portions of the Mohawk Valley and North Country. Originated in 1998 to promote the greater Albany area as a high-tech competitor to regions such as Silicon Valley, it has since grown to represent the counties in New York from IBM's Westchester County plants in the south to the Canadian border to north. Tech Valley encompasses 19 counties. At first the name Tech Valley was derided as over-enthusiastic self-boosterism, even if the area was already home to science and engineering schools like Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Union College; incubators like the Rensselaer Technology Park; or world-class research and development sites like the Benét Laboratories, GE Global Research, and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory. But SEMATECH's decision in 2002 to put its new plant at the University at Albany began Tech Valley's rise in the public's perception. In the 2000s, the area saw notable growth in the high-tech sector, including the addition of SUNY Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, the opening of the Luther Forest Technology Campus, and most recently, the decision by GlobalFoundries to open a chip manufacturing plant near Saratoga Springs. In an effort to empower the upcoming generation, local leaders and educators saw it fit to open, in 2007, Tech Valley High School, an innovative project-based learning public high school populated by students from across the two BOCES surrounding Albany. Somewhat humorously, in 2004, when Bill Gates was asked by a Times Union reporter what he thought about Tech Valley, Gates responded that he had no idea where it was; two years later, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would donate $400,000 to fund the new high school. Additionally, Hudson Valley Community College will be opening a semiconductor and alternative energy education center in time for the fall 2010 semester, a move that may have been a deciding factor for President Barack Obama to host a speech about higher education, and specifically community colleges, on HVCC's campus in September 2009. More selected articles... Read more... edit   Selected picture Credit: User:UpstateNYer Schenectady City Hall is the seat of government of the City of Schenectady, New York. It was designed by McKim, Mead, and White and built in 1933. City Hall, along with the Schenectady Post Office, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. More Selected Pictures... edit   WikiProjects WikiProjects are organized groups of editors working towards improving articles on a particular topic. General: Capital District • New York • New York State Routes • Hudson Valley edit   Things you can do There are lots of things to do! Consider helping out in one of the following areas: Recruit more members! Tag all articles relating to New York's Capital District with the project template. Assess all tagged articles to determine quality and importance relating to this project. Consider adding yourself to the Assessment Team! Offer unofficial peer review services as a step to help editors create the best articles possible. This will be available to articles rated C-Class or below. For higher class articles, please see Wikipedia's peer review department. All reviews are expected to be critical, but fair. Note the existence of Category:New York Capital District at Commons. Add to its category tree to offer users possible sources of media to use in articles. edit   Selected biography Kirsten Gillibrand (pronounced /ˈkɜrstən ˈdʒɪlɨˌbrænd/; born December 9, 1966) is the junior United States Senator from New York and a member of the Democratic Party. On January 23, 2009, Gillibrand was appointed by Governor David Paterson to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who assumed the office of United States Secretary of State in the Obama administration. She is the second woman to serve as a U.S. Senator from New York. Previously, she was elected twice to the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 20th congressional district from January 3, 2007, to January 26, 2009. She was the first woman to serve as a representative of the district and the first Democrat to represent the district since Edward W. Pattison left office in 1979. As a member of the House, Gillibrand was considered to be a centrist Democrat, appealing to some Republican and conservative Democratic voters in Upstate New York. Gillibrand has a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law. She lives with her husband and two sons in Hudson. More selected biographies... 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