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Four months ago, Governor Andrew Cuomo launched a new website called CitizenConnects. He hailed the site as an "electronic town hall" that would give New Yorkers, "unprecedented access to the workings of the executive branch."

So has CitizenConnects delivered? Not really.

The tagline for the site reads, "Care enough to connect to your state government."

Unfortunately, no one at the governor's press office cared enough to return several phone calls requesting details about why some information on the site is either missing or out-of-date.

Yesterday, the Innovation Trail followed Governor Andrew Cuomo's State of the State Address closely to find out what his 2012 agenda may mean for upstate New York.

So if you didn't have time to watch the nearly two-hour program yesterday, we've condensed it into less than two and a half minutes:

There are twin threats staring down the Occupy Wall Street movement.

First, across the nation, there's the growing impatience of local officials, who are tiring of protestors' tent cities.

And then there's a uniquely upstate challenge bearing down: winter.