Today in your Trail Mix: all the looking back you can stomach.
Year in review stories from us, the Buffalo News, WNED, and more.
Looking forward to a new tax code with the governor.
And Fulton pins its hopes for the future on a new business incubator.
Year in review
In no particular order, the Innovation Trail is checking in with the most important stories of 2011 - and seeing what will figure in 2012. So far we've talked about flooding, fracking, the fall of icons, the Occupy movement, and more.
It was a good year for the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus (Daniel Robison, WNED/Innovation Trail).
HSBC's sale of its upstate New York branches was the top business story of the year, according to the Buffalo News.
Rochester is one of the nation's top 10 markets for investing in rental property (Troy L. Smith, Rochester Business Journal).
Sales tax receipts were up for Niagara and Erie County in 2011, thanks to Canadian shoppers (Denise Jewell Gee, Buffalo News).
2012
The governor has a countdown clock in anticipation of New York's new tax code going into effect (Jon Campbell, Vote Up!).
Pushing for hydrofracking will be part of the National Federal of Independent Businesses' New York chapter's agenda in 2012 (Eric Anderson, The Buzz).
Syracuse's Common Council is trying to take control over development decisions currently managed by the city planning commission (Teri Weaver, Post-Standard).
Economy
Fulton has opened a small business incubator to try to combat the joblessness created by the closure of a Birds Eye Foods plant (Joyce Gramza, WRVO).
Towns at New York's southern border with Pennsylvania "are jammed" as drilling workers spill over looking for amenities (Mireya Navarro, New York Times).
Small towns are being forced to change their street signs to make them easier to read, but the cost of the transition is a burden to some (Barbara O'Brien, Buffalo News).
Occupy Albany is seeking to have its case against the city heard by a federal judge, to allow the protestors to return to Academy Park after being evicted (Jordan Carleo-Evangelist, Times Union).
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