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4:47pm

Fri May 24, 2013
Regional Coverage

Rescue Mission's new store helps raise funds for its mission

The Rescue Mission has opened it's latest store at the Westvale Plaza in Syracuse. It's the biggest thrift store in the 14-store chain, that supports a majority of the programs for a non-profit organization that helps the hungry and homeless in central New York.

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8:59am

Thu May 23, 2013
Agriculture

Farmers' property taxes rise as land values increase

Credit Joanna Richards
Farmer John Peck has a moment with a two-month-old calf in his dairy barn.

Agriculture is one of the most dynamic and innovative economic sectors in New York state. All this week, the Innovation Trail team is reporting on some of the current challenges and opportunities facing upstate farmers.

One of those challenges is property taxes. Agriculture is a land-intensive industry, so rising property taxes can mean much higher costs for farmers. And taxes have been rising, thanks mostly to increases in the production value of farmland.

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8:32am

Tue May 21, 2013
Business

Destiny USA tries to make it a comfortable destination for tour bus drivers

Credit Ellen Abbott/WRVO

Bus drivers who bring customers to Destiny USA in Syracuse won't be waiting in their buses for passengers to finish shopping anymore. The mall has created a new bus drivers lounge and the idea is to expand on what is already a big source of shoppers at the Syracuse mall.

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6:24am

Tue May 21, 2013
Energy

Proposed line would move natural gas from Binghamton to Syracuse

Credit Screenshot / Millennium Pipeline Company

An energy company is looking into building a natural gas pipeline from near Binghamton to the Syracuse area. Millennium Pipeline Company is currently soliciting feedback from natural gas suppliers about their proposal to connect three supply lines running east-west across upstate New York, with a north-south line.

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3:51pm

Tue May 14, 2013
Business

Popular Syracuse ice cream shop sets up permanent shop downtown

Credit Ellen Abbott/WRVO

An ice cream icon in Syracuse has become the latest business to join in the revitalization of downtown Syracuse. Gannon's Isle has opened up a permanent store in the Dey's building, on the corner of South Salina and Jefferson Streets.

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5:11pm

Fri May 10, 2013
Education

Program aims to promote manufacturing careers to students

Credit Charter School for Applied Technologies

A new program aims to promote high-tech manufacturing careers in high schools across Western New York.  Dream it, Do it WNY educates high school students about the broad range of  careers available in the industry.

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9:05am

Fri May 10, 2013
Politics and Government

Cuomo details his plan for upstate casinos

Credit Daniel Robison/Innovation Trail

Gov. Andrew Cuomo outlined the details of his plan to site three gambling casinos upstate Thursday. Cuomo, joined by union and business leaders, and representatives from county governments, offered more details of his plan to build three new gambling casinos. Cuomo says he wants to limit the locations to upstate regions for now, to prop up the failing economy. The governor says upstate needs jobs like it needs oxygen. And he says having a downstate location would devalue the upstate centers.

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1:07pm

Thu May 2, 2013
The Upstate Economy

Kodak could exit bankruptcy as early as July

Credit Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak expects to emerge from bankruptcy as early as July, according to the company’s reorganization plan filed late Tuesday.

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9:31am

Mon April 22, 2013
Technology

Advanced video processing could help law enforcement

Credit techimpact.org

Investigators in Boston this week quickly began sifting through more than two thousand videos and still images of the marathon route looking for potential suspects in bombing, with crowd sourcing becoming the newest tool in the arsenal of law enforcement agencies.

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5:18am

Thu April 18, 2013
Energy

BP to push forward with Cape Vincent wind project, pending possible sale of renewables division

Credit Joanna Richards
Richard Chandler, director of business development for BP Wind Energy North America, gives a presentation on the proposed Cape Vincent Wind Farm project at a firehouse in Three Mile Bay.

Earlier this month, energy company BP announced its entire renewables division was up for sale. At a recent public meeting on the proposed Cape Vincent Wind Farm, a BP official confirmed the company will push ahead with the development anyway, and local leaders vowed to hire experts to help them fight the project.  

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