Today in your Trail Mix ...
Binghamton-area residents spent the weekend cleaning up.
Upstate New York and 9/11
Finding the right people for the job - when the job is watching over machines.
The New York Times urges caution on fracking.
Flooding
Binghamton-area residents are making their way back home to see what remains of their lives (Steve Reilly, Press & Sun-Bulletin).
The damage from the flooding is worse than that of 2006, and clean-up could cost "in the tens of millions of dollars" (Press & Sun-Bulletin).
The Press & Sun-Bulletin has done a valiant job profiling the people affected by flooding with their "Tales of the People" stories.
The flooding of 2006 was a cautionary tale for many Binghamton-area residents - more people this time around had insurance to protect against flooding (My-Ly Nguyen, Press & Sun-Bulletin).
And in the capital region's Rotterdam Junction, residents are once again picking up the pieces after flooding (Bryan Fitzgerald, Times Union).
Remembering
The Democrat and Chronicle collected the memories of Rochesterians in a video.
The Post-Standard collected a series of essays and images.
Donn Esmonde writes at the Buffalo News that the 9/11 memorial in New York City "admirably serves its purpose."
The Innovation Trail's Emma Jacobs has a look at how federal funding of central New York's defense contractors changed after 9/11 - and how it's changing again.
Things also changed at the Buffalo-Canada border, as wait times and probing questions went up (Daniel Robision, Innovation Trail).
Business
Finely-tuned machines are at the core of the modern manufacturing economy - but finding people to keep an eye on those machines is proving tough for the Rochester region (Matthew Daneman, Democrat and Chronicle).
A growing market for farmer's markets is giving growers a more efficient way to hawk their wares (Debra J. Groom, Post-Standard).
Rochester has played a surprising role in the history of road-locomotives. Oh right - you call them "cars" (Sean Lahman, Democrat and Chronicle).
Infrastructurist asks if the president's investment in infrastructure in his jobs proposal is big enough (Melissa Lafsky).
Energy
The New York Times opines in an editorial that the governor should move carefully to open New York State to fracking, to protect the communities that will be affected.
Environmentalists want to see floodplain maps updated before fracking rules are set forth, to make sure that flooding like that of the past two weeks doesn't wash over drilling sites and cause contamination (Mireya Navarrow, New York Times Green blog).
A coalition in Oswego County is arguing that the governor's Power NY Act takes away local authority to approve or deny the siting of power plants (Aaron Curtis, Palladium Times).
Higher education
There's $780 million worth of construction going on in Syracuse's University Hill neighborhood - Charles McChesney at the Post-Standard has the rundown.
The AARP says Cornell is a top place to work if you're over 50, for its benefits, wellness programs and work/life balance efforts (Ithaca Journal).
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