The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/author/angelali/)
The race for Tompkins County District Attorney has seen its fair share of mudslinging: Edward Kopko had routinely slammed incumbent Matthew Van Houten’s record on racial justice, an increasingly pertinent campaign message amid a national reckoning on racial injustice in the United States.
In their closing statements, Democratic candidates for New York Assembly District 125 took some rare veiled shots at one another in the last public moments of what has been a largely cordial, yet competitive, primary season.
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.
Hosted by the Tompkins County Democratic Committee, the forum focused partly on District Attorney Matthew Van Houten’s relationship with law enforcement and on New York State’s recently passed bail reform.
Preliminary data reveals that black and brown communities may be disproportionately affected by the New York City Police Department’s social distancing enforcement.
Incoming students are seeing the Cornell campus for the first time — virtually.
After three separate forums featuring different state assembly candidates for the 125th district, the Sunrise Movement is set to make their endorsement decision. Review their stances on the most hot button climate issues.
The majority of University Assembly’s meeting on Tuesday was devoted to reviewing and discussing the changes proposed by the Codes and Judicial Committee, ending in a divided vote.
Cornell recently became the first Ivy League university to waive standardized testing for the upcoming admissions cycle — but few of its graduate programs have yet to follow suit.
Although national alcohol sales have sharply increased in the past weeks, Ithaca liquor stores are reporting differing results.