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Today in your Trail Mix:

Environmentalists ready "a million fracking letters."

Threat of snowfall for Occupy protestors.

SUNY's union doesn't like the school focusing on economic development.

And Buffalo readies its new zoning code.

Fracking

Environmental groups are waging a campaign to send "a million fracking letters" to the governor, expressing the concerns that citizens have about fracking (Jon Campbell, Gannett).

Delays in recommendations from a fracking advisory panel are apparently due to state agencies not having compiled the necessary information yet (Jon Campbell, Gannett).

Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo told Capital Tonight that that slowdown is fine with her (Maureen McManus, State of Politics/Capital Tonight):

http://youtu.be/IPfDzjMAcDI

Pennsylvania's senate dropped an impact fee on drillers from legislation about the Marcellus Shale yesterday (Laura Olson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette).

Flood recovery

Prattsville's flooding during Hurricane Irene has left many still trying to clean up their homes - and pick up their lives (Marie Cusick, Innovation Trail):

http://youtu.be/exRJIt0LvH8

Occupy everywhere

Albany's Occupy Wall Street protestors are facing "Lieutenant October Snow," as the weather turns (Jimmy Vielkind, Times Union).

There's also a battle brewing over the Occupy Wall Street protestors' curfew in Albany, with the city squaring off against the governor (Brendan J. Lyons, Times Union).

Syracuse had its first Occupy march yesterday, with about 100 people showing up (Charles Ellis, Post-Standard).

A new poll shows that 58 percent of New Yorkers agree with the Occupy protestors (Jimmy Vielkind, Capitol Confidential).

Higher ed

SUNY's increasing emphasis on its role as an economic driver is not pleasing the school's teacher union, United University Professions (Cara Matthews, Politics on the Hudson).

Cornell will start offering opposite-sex domestic partners the same benefits that same-sex domestic partners receive, in January (Caroline Flax, Cornell Daily Sun).

A new report from SUNY's Levin Institute warns that New York companies need to make global markets part of their "mindset," in the era of globalization (Cara Matthews, Gannett).

Rochester and the Capital Region are among New York's more successful regions when it comes to capitalizing on global markets (Eric Anderson, Times Union).

Tech and economic development

Today is the last day of Buffalo's "Technology-based Economic Development" conference, looking at tech and entrepreneurship (Samantha Maziarz Christmann, Buffalo News).

Senator Schumer is proposing a federal program to help schools train high tech workers that many regional clusters - like Albany's solar manufacturing - are lacking (Larry Rulison, Times Union).

Buffalo is unveiling its new zoning code this weekend, to update a document that hasn't been revised since the 1950s, and to help ease the way for developers (Aaron Besecker, Buffalo News).

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