I had no idea, until reading the Democrat and Chronicle’s Our manufacturing roots sprout jobs article, that Rochester had the second-largest regional economy in New York State. They state that a recent study showed that “the goods and services produced here totaled $38.4 billion in 2005, surpassing the more populous Buffalo region and trailing only New York City. And a new U.S. Commerce Department study pegged the value of Rochester’s annual exports at $4.6 billion, making it the second-largest exporter in the state and 40th-largest in the nation.”