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Alec Giufurta is a member of the Class of 2021 in the College of Arts and Sciences. He is a Senior Editor on the 138th Editorial Board and can be reached at agiufurta@cornellsun.com
Tompkins County Legislator Anna Kelles garnered 34.1 percent of the vote in the seven-person assembly primary, followed by Ithaca Common Council Alderperson Seph Murtagh Ph.D. ’09 (D-2nd Ward) with 20.2 percent. In the primary for Tompkins County District Attorney, local lawyer Ed Kopko led incumbent Matthew Van Houten with 57.5 percent of the vote.
UPDATE: As of 12:50 a.m. Wednesday, Tompkins County Legislator and assembly candidate Anna Kelles and D.A. challenger Ed Kopko lead election night returns. And downstate in New York’s 17th Congressional District, two Cornell alumni running for Congress are trailing behind a progressive favorite.
All three Reactivation Committees chartered by President Martha E. Pollack have submitted their reports on time, an announcement slid onto Cornell’s COVID-19 FAQ page reads. It is the ‘hope’ of the administration to announce the status of the fall semester in Early July.
Retiring Assemblymember Barbara Lifton (D-N.Y.) endorsed Jordan Lesser ’03, her former general counsel, just under two weeks from the primary election, for New York State’s 125th Assembly District.
National calls for police reform laid at the forefront of the Tompkins County Democratic Committee’s final assembly candidate forum: Prof. Sujata Gibson, law, lended support to the growing “defund” movement, while other candidates pledged to work with unions to reimagine community policing.
White supremacists targeted Tompkins County legislator Anna Kelles (D-2nd District) and a campaign supporter through anonymous emails in late May, the campaign said in a Monday press release. Kelles is a candidate in the Democratic primary for the 125th New York Assembly District.
In phase two, barbershops and hair salons, office buildings and retail stores can reopen with a slew of precautionary restrictions, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) announced at a Friday news conference.
A federal judge ordered that New York’s June 23 Presidential Primary must continue. Cornell Progressives called the move “democracy restored.”
Thanks to a partnership with alum-founded and Ithaca-based Rheonix Inc., Cayuga Health can offer patients same-day results.
Antibody testing in New York shows that communal transmission in the state likely began as early as mid-February, before the first officially reported case.