Although Cornell is a great school and I know a few smart and capable alumni from Cornell, the nytimes is really reaching here. Certainly having top schools did

Although Cornell is a great school and I know a few smart and capable alumni from Cornell, the nytimes is really reaching here. Certainly having top schools didn't hurt NY, but amazon's decision had nothing to do with cornell or their roosevelt island tech school. It had everything to do with political influence and vote buying. The article is nothing but empty PR for Cornell. It would be like washingtonpost writing an ad for Georgetown by claiming Georgetown made DC area attractive to amazon. My suspicion ( and it's only a suspicion ) is that bezos wanted a headquarters in the DC area to buy good will amongst the politicians in DC and to be closer to the lobbyists and of course politicians. If cornell and georgetown decided to move to wyoming, I doubt amazon is going to follow along. Now if the politicians, lobbyists and "influencers" in DC and NYC decided to move to wyoming, I'm betting amazon would be right on their coat tails.