Today in your Trail Mix:
A call for an end to corporate welfare, and to the protests in Zuccotti Park.
Buffalo: a great place for moms.
The greenest lawmakers.
Plus, a sitcom starring YOU!
Corporate welfare
A coalition of groups are calling for reform of New York's industrial development agencies, and the Power Authority, which divert tax dollars to economic development projects - sometimes with little job creation effect (Samantha Maziarz Christmann).
A group of Tea Party aligned taxpayers are suing New York for what they say is a violation of state law: using state dollars to fund private companies (AP).
A plaintiff and his attorney in the case appeared on Capital Tonight to make their argument (Maureen McManus, State of Politics/Capital Tonight).
http://youtu.be/eItHZsj21Ro
Mayor Bloomberg says Occupy Wall Street protestors have to be gone by Friday, reversing an earlier statement that they could stay "indefinitely" (Azi Paybarah, Capital New York).
Rust Wire has a look at the Occupy Wall Street protests going on across the Rust Belt.
Taxes
Senator Schumer is backing a plan to offer corporations a lower tax rate, so they'll bring profits back home from tax shelters. He wants to use the cash to fund an infrastructure bank, that would create jobs and fix crumbling bridges and roads (Brian Tumulty, Gannett).
The company that buys debt from the city of Rochester and county of Monroe actually owes back taxes to both partiers (Brian Sharp, Democrat and Chronicle).
Environment
Environmental groups have released a list of the "greenest" lawmakers (Maureen McManus, State of Politics/Capital Tonight).
http://youtu.be/hZ7eRpgg_H8
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani argues in a new ad that Indian Point is safe and should have its licenses to operate renewed (Nick Reisman, State of Politics).
http://youtu.be/gqUfKhZvvuw
A fish kill in Dunkard Creek, which runs along the West Virginia and Pennsylvania border, is due to coal mining, not fracking wastewater, according to official findings from the EPA - but a lead scientist on the case disputes that (Mike Soraghan, New York Times).
Moms
Forbes says the Buffalo-Niagara area is number one for working moms, due to low crime rates and high spending on students (Maki Becker, Buffalo News).
Weather
A dry, warm summer means smaller apples in this year's harvest (Eric Anderson, The Buzz).
My-Ly Nguyen at the Press & Sun-Bulletin has a rundown of the repairs going on at a Johnson City plaza after flooding.
Producers are looking for investors for a sitcom based in Syracuse, tentatively called "Upstate." It writes itself! (Charles Ellis, Post-Standard).
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