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From our friends at the Innovation Trail upstate--a love letter from upstate New York to itself to New York City, so we here can also fall in love with the grand beauty that is 90 percent or so of the state we call home.

Throughout upstate New York, town boards are debating its merits and some are deciding to use zoning to ban fracking locally. And as the debate heats up, it is pitting neighbor against neighbor: landowners who want gas leases against environmentalists and others who fear fracking.