And I spent a lot of time thinking about downstate issues as a United States senator.
Not surprisingly, northern and southern California circle in different orbits, as do upstate and downstate New York.
In addition to SUNY Downstate's facilities, SUNY officials said at least three hospitals are interested in joining the network.
The experience of gun ownership is different in urban areas than it is in rural areas, different from upstate and downstate Illinois.
And Baker reports that his hometown of Dallas is hotter in the summertime than downstate Houston, which is more known for sweltering heat.
The settlements ended claims against state agencies including the Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Office, Downstate Medical Center, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp.
"What we're trying to do is preserve Downstate Medical, " he added.
Only downstate suburban districts are showing a growth in numbers.
But I will tell you, when I travel through downstate Illinois, when I travel through Iowa, when I travel through the Midwest, I am absolutely confident about this country.
Romney is also taking his campaign downstate on Thursday, when he will rally with McDonnell in Portsmouth, a Navy town in the vote-rich Hampton Roads region along the state's southeastern coast.
McCain's petitions were also challenged in eight downstate districts, and he was removed from the ballot in two of them -- one in New York City and one on Long Island.
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The proposal would involve SUNY Downstate, Brooklyn's only academic hospital, handing one of its three facilities, Long Island College Hospital, to a new operator or closing it and laying off staff at another, University Hospital of Brooklyn.
Gov. Pat Quinn today signed an agreement with China to export as much as 30 million pounds of Asian carp a year from the Illinois River, a move aimed at reducing the population of the invasive species downstate.
"We had no idea as to whether this could turn from 94 cases originally calculated into 9, 400 cases, " says Pascal James Imperato, chairman of preventative medicine at the State University of New York-Downstate Medical School and a former New York City health commissioner.
While entire states like West Virginia and Louisiana inspired fear and loathing among the Gucciloafer set, the bad grades for California and Illinois seemed driven more by concern about generous big-city juries, and in the Land of Lincoln, the downstate litigation mecca of Madison County.
Florio, who comes from "downstate" and has won endorsements from a number of South Jersey Democratic county parties, was defeated by Whitman in the 1993 gubernatorial race, and some Democrats from North Jersey are concerned that a Florio candidacy could hurt Democratic candidates across the state.
The biggest toll from the disaster is likely to come from those who drowned as the giant wave swept over cities and farmland and then withdrew back toward the sea, according to Pascal James Imperato, the Dean of the School of Public Health at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.
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