Today in your Trail Mix:
The next round of regional council meetings, and drafts of their economic plans.
Syracuse bans fracking.
Herkimer gets FEMA aid.
And Steuben Glass says goodbye on November 29.
Regional councils
The Finger Lakes regional council meets tonight to discuss its draft economic plan - we've got the document up if you want to read it (Zack Seward, Innovation Trail).
The western New York regional council also meets tonight to discuss its draft plan (AP).
The Southern Tier economic council released a presentation summarizing its draft regional plan (thanks to Gannett's Jon Campbell for putting it on Scribd) - and it doesn't include drilling as a major component (Steve Reilly, Press & Sun-Bulletin).
Fracking
Syracuse's common council has banned fracking within the city's borders; council majority leader Kathleen Joy appeared on Capital Tonight to discuss the ban (Maureen McManus, State of Politics/Capital Tonight).
http://youtu.be/QkT6Po3zFHk
Funding unbiased research about the environment and the Marcellus Shale can be tricky - and expensive (Susan Phillips, State Impact PA).
New Yorkers are evenly split on the issue of hydrofracking according to a spate of recent polls (Andrew Carden, Kate Blessing, Alli Sofer, and Tony Mancini, Legislative Gazette).
A new app for the iPhone, called RigData, tells you the status of drilling operations (Susan Phillips, State Impact PA).
Government
Herkimer County will get FEMA disaster aid following Tropical Storm Lee (Rick Seltzer, Mohawk Valley Business Journal).
Cash is king when it comes to shepherding development projects in the Albany area (Brendan J. Lyons, Times Union).
New York State Public Radio's Karen DeWitt talked with SUNY board chair Carl McCall about the university system's roll in economic development.
Business
Crystal-maker Steuben Glass is shutting down at the end of November, following Corning's divestment of it in 2008 (Ben Dobbin, AP).
The Voice of the Voter poll, administered in partnership with Innovation Trail station WXXI, finds that there's been an incremental increase in support for sales of wine in grocery stores (Tom Tobin, Democrat and Chronicle).
Syracuse's common council said yes to bringing in a private firm to do security at the airport, for a purported savings of $2 million a year (Tim Knauss, Post-Standard).
Rochester-area inventors are bringing home lots of patents for work on RFID - the technology that makes your E-ZPass work (Sean Lahma, Democrat and Chronicle).
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