Ya all may blast New York Governor Patterson, but here is (finally) some good news coming out of New York State. They are dumping their H-1B guest workers and corresponding contracts and hiring I.T. workers, Americans, directly on the State payroll.

Patrick Thibodeau has the story:

New York State has embarked on a plan to shift a number of jobs filled by IT contractors and consultants to the state payroll as part of an effort to save millions of dollars.

Patrick Thibodeau over at ComputerWorld has a most amusing article on how in Senator Schumer's state, a utility company plans to offshore outsource at least 1200 jobs.

New York's two U.S. senators say that National Grid, a major Northeast utility, is considering outsourcing as many as 1,200 jobs -- including many in IT -- to an offshore vendor, and they're urging the company to keep those jobs in the U.S.