The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/city_of_ithaca/)
At a March 25 rally, environmentalists, local politicians and community organizers showed support for climate justice initiatives, such as the Ithaca Green New Deal’s equity goals.
In a town hall event, Ithaca community members gathered to discuss the Reimagining Public Safety Working Group’s report and creation of a new public safety agency.
The Reimagining Public Safety Working group, an organization involved in the restructuring of the Ithaca Police Department, spoke about their efforts to improve policing equity in a March 9 panel.
Svante Myrick ’09 will be stepping down from his current position as the 44th Mayor of Ithaca to serve as the Executive Director for People of the American Way.
The Ithaca Police Department is currently investigating the fatal shooting that occurred on Tuesday morning. The victim has been identified to be 32-year-old Alan M. Godfrey.
The second event of the Odysseys: Ithaca Writers on Exile, Wandering and Searching for Home series hosted one local and one international writer on Tuesday.
On Sunday, pro-police Back the Blue protestors and police abolitionist counterprotesters clashed during a protest condemning Mayor Myrick’s ’09 police reform plan.
Many of you probably never knew that. Some might ask yourselves this very question every time Cornell makes us walk to class in negative 20 degree weather. To all of us, it might seem strange to find our little town just behind Madison, Wisconsin. Ithaca is the fourth best college town in America, according to people who have (obviously) never been here for more than a spring weekend. Behind only Boulder, Colorado, Ann-Arbor, Michigan and Madison, Wisconsin we hold our heads high above the likes of Berkeley, Bloomington, hell even Cambridge (take that Harvard, we’re the best of the Ivies in something).
Halfway through the fall semester, Cornell’s reopening plan has proven to be one of the most successful in the United States. There are a few reasons the University was able to get it right, but the in-person fall hasn’t been without its challenges.
A prolonged period without rain has prompted a moderate drought.