Tagged: regional council members

So who's it gonna be?

With $200 million in state economic development funds on the line, that's the big question.

Four regions will walk away with $40 million each. Six regions will have to split the remaining $40 million.

We'll soon find out who wins and who loses.

The awards ceremony kicks off at 10 a.m. Watch it unfold live and follow @MarieCusick and @kdewitt7 for the latest play-by-play from the Albany Egg.

More than 250 New Yorkers will sit on the regional economic councils.

They come from all over New York, yet many aren’t strangers to working with each other – or with the state.

And those complex relationships mean that no council member will be completely free of the possibility of charges of conflict of interest, as they work to pick the winners and losers in the future of economic development in New York.