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Common Council Met With Continued Grievances from City Employees

By Sofia Rubinson | February 2, 2023

The City of Ithaca Common Council’s Wednesday meeting attracted nearly a hundred community members as City workers aired their grievances over contract negotiations.

State Promises End To Cannabis Bewilderment

By Julia Nagel | July 27, 2022

New York State is on track to legalize cannabis sales before the end of this year, with the application for adult-use retail dispensary licenses slated to open later this summer.

TC Sheriff At Forefront Of NYS’s Reimagining Law Enforcement

By Julia Nagel | July 23, 2022

The Tompkins County Sheriff’s Department—which recently launched its unarmed sheriff’s clerk pilot program—is at the forefront of the New York State push to reimagine law enforcement operations.

Cornell Maintains COVID Restrictions as New York State Lifts Mask Mandates

By Brooke Greenfield | March 2, 2022

Cornell drops weekly testing requirement for unvaccinated students as Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) eases state-wide mask mandates.

MEHLER | Redraw Your Own Lines

By Patrick J. Mehler | November 4, 2021

The attempts to silence the voices of college communities are hopefully fading, with the most recent release of New York’s maps for 2022-2032 starting to include college communities together. After the New York Independent Redistricting Commission did not come to a consensus on one set of maps, the Democratic and Republican halves of the NYIRC each drafted their own “Letterss” and “Names” variants. At the Congressional, Senate, and Assembly levels, the Democratic “Letters” maps include Cornell with its surrounding collegiate communities. In the Congressional map, Tompkins County stands unified with Cornell, Ithaca College, SUNY Cortland, TC3, and Syracuse University all under one roof. The Senate map combines the Ithaca schools with Binghamton University while the Assembly map keeps Cornell and Ithaca College congregated with the City of Ithaca and Tompkins County.

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Local Partnership Launches Chickpea Growing Experiment to Support Ithaca-Spawned Business

By Faith Fisher | July 21, 2021

Chickpea plants are putting their roots down in Central New York, and successful harvests would pack not only a nutritional, but also an economic punch in the Ithaca area and beyond.

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New York State Reduces Public Health Guidelines as Cornell Rules Remain Largely Unchanged

By Ally Fertig | June 15, 2021

Cornell takes a conservative approach toward abolishing COVID safety guidelines, requiring conditional mask-wearing and distancing for students and faculty even as New York State ends all restrictions.