The end is nigh for sputtering Start-Up NY
By GREGORY ZELLER // While several components of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed FY2018 budget will probably meet resistance in Albany’s corridors of power, at least one is likely to sail straight to legislative approval: the end of the Start-Up NY program. While not officially terminating Empire State Development’s underachieving economic-development effort, the governor’s spending plan purposefully rebrands it: Say hello to the Excelsior Business Program (but make it quick, because phonetic similarities to the existing…
