Marie Cusick, WMHT

A small startup based in Albany has managed to help some of Hollywood's biggest celebrities protect and promote their own online images.

And New York State is banking on the company's success - by investing in it through the state pension fund.

Happy Monday morning! Here's today's Trail Mix:

It appears President Obama switched venues for his Albany visit at the urging of the Cuomo administration.

Americans would pay more for clean energy, but with some exceptions.

Plus, a star-studded anti-fracking rally will take place in Albany this week.

Good morning! In today's Trail Mix:

President Obama will make his third visit to the Capital Region this week.

Buffalo gets ready to tear down ten buildings.

Plus, Gov. Andrew Cuomo pens his autobiography.

Happy Monday morning. Here's today's trail mix:

Are firms that were kicked out of the Empire Zone program striking back?

An audit finds that BOCES programs aren't a bargain for taxpayers.

Cuomo makes history, sort of.

The Cuomo administration announced a slew of clean energy and environmental investments Thursday, including two new testing centers for solar and wind power in Cortland and Potsdam, respectively.

The centers will be run by Intertek, a global testing and consulting company.

Earlier this year, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said one of his top priorities is to create an “energy highway” for New York State’s aging power grid.

So what exactly does that mean?

No one is quite sure yet.

We have a wintry Trail Mix for you today:

The Northeast gets hammered with April (snow) showers.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pays a visit to Syracuse.

Plus, a battle over the beer business in Albany.

A coalition of small business groups says one of their top priorities is changing a 19th century New York labor law that relates to scaffolding and worker safety.

Members from more than a dozen business groups, led by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, met with lawmakers in Albany Wednesday for their annual day of lobbying.

Business leaders say the labor regulation, known as the Scaffold Law, places an unfair burden on employers.

Currently, employers are held to absolute liability if a worker on a construction site is injured in a fall.

Business groups are pushing for bills that would change that.

"You could have a drunken worker show up at the job site, injure themselves, and that would be your fault as the employer," says Tom Stebbins, head of the Lawsuit Reform Alliance of New York.

Happy unseasonably warm Monday morning! Here's today's Trail Mix:

The Cuomo administration's secret dossier on an Albany reporter is leaked.

Why Rust Belt cities might be cooler than you think.

Plus, Google gets in trouble with the FCC.

The New York DREAM Act would make it easier for undocumented immigrants to pay for higher education by giving them access to state aid programs.

"I'm not illegal; I'm undocumented," says Yelky Ramos, a 20-year-old immigrant on the front lines of the DREAM Act debate.

Activists had pushed hard last month in an effort to get the bill included in the 2013 budget. That push fell short, but supporters of the state DREAM Act are still fighting for its passage.

The Innovation Trail's Marie Cusick takes an in-depth look at how the debate is unfolding.