The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/svante-myrick/page/2/)
Local leaders in Tompkins County generally wished the president and first lady a speedy and healthy recovery after the two were diagnosed with COVID-19 after midnight on Friday.
The mayor hopes that Cornellians’ return to campus in the fall will help revitalize the Ithaca economy.
Federal assistance from the CARES Act is not sufficient to help Ithaca during the pandemic, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said.
State funding to localities has hardly increased in the last two decades, according to Mayor Svante Myrick ’09.
The Cayuga Health System sent two buses with 60 doctors, nurses and staff to New York Presbyterian Hospital to help fight COVID-19.
Ithaca committees met to respond to the pandemic’s effects on the community and local businesses.
As New York City continues to face shortage of medical professionals in its fight against COVID-19, the Cayuga Health System is sending two buses full of doctors, nurses and staff to New York Presbyterian Hospital.
As Cornell’s shift to online classes and students’ departure from Ithaca continues to impact the local economy, Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick ’09 called for a rent and mortgage freeze on Thursday.
The demonstrators stood in support of Christine Barksdale, a former Ithaca Police Department investigator and member of the Tompkins County law enforcement community for 25 years, who was terminated as senior investigator by the IPD in response to her department’s failure to investigate crimes.
In a visit to Cornell’s campus, Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick ’09 discussed Ithaca’s Green New Deal, along with climate change and socioeconomic inequality.