The government selected Los Angeles as the venue to file the lawsuit in part because it was one of the regions hardest hit when the bottom fell out of the housing market.
In our national ranking of 200 metropolitan regions for employer attractiveness, the four-county Syracuse region ranks in the bottom quintile. (See "map") Some of the factors indirectly affecting this ranking are beyond any city's control--such as climate and transportation grids--but one very big one is very much the province of politicians: taxes.