Using tongs, Jim Moran sticks a long, thin piece of wire into the small but very hot fire of the blacksmith’s forge.
When he removes the metal, the tip is white hot.
More than $7 million in state taxpayer money was used over the course of one year to add just 31 jobs in Schenectady County, according to the 2007 Empire Zone annual report....
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