In a recent column, I wrote of Syracuse’s past as a model for its future. I celebrated the exceptional history of its innovative entrepreneurs whose companies, founded here, were the basis for one of the wealthiest urban economies in American history. In making the case that, for Syracuse to return to its past, it must engender a new economic thesis -- one built on entrepreneurship that brings forth large scale businesses, firms that make jobs and wealth that will effectively change the prospects and incomes of the city’s poor -- I touched off a furor about having missed evidence that an economic renaissance is already underway.