environmental protection
City and State Government Work to Prevent Spotted Lanternfly Infestation
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At least 50 trees will be cut down to combat Ithaca’s outlier spotted lanternfly infestation, which could otherwise threaten local vineyards.
Code Yellow
COVID Weekly Update: Campus Tightens Restrictions Following Latest Spike
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The end of March saw COVID-19 cases surpass 100 in a single week causing the University to double down on safety measures.
Tompkins County Legislature
Tompkins County Votes to Pass the Reimagining Public Safety Plan
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The Tompkins County Legislature voted Tuesday to pass the Reimagining Public Safety Plan, with the county committing to the 17 police reforms that intend to rebuild trust between law enforcement and residents.
News
Cornell Alumna Slated to be First Female to Hold Local State Supreme Court Seat
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Cornell professor Elizabeth Aherne ’95 reflects on her time on the Hill and her career in the lead up to her New York State Supreme Court election this fall.
COVID vaccine
Tompkins County Opens COVID-19 Registry, Simplifying the Registration Process
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Tompkins County Health Department has created a COVID-19 vaccination registry, prompting more than 7,000 signups in the first week.
Campus Reopening
Spring Semester Off to Rocky Start as Cases Rise and Campus Moves to Yellow Alert
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While Cornell entered its spring semester with the experience of a fall semester that saw fewer COVID-19 cases than expected, 2021 may be off to a more tumultuous start.
winter storm
Winter Storm Frustrates Students’ Move-In Plans
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As thousands of Cornellians flocked back to Ithaca for the spring semester, the nor’easter that brought heavy snow across the East Coast this week hindered students’ travel plans — creating move-in hurdles beyond testing and quarantine as students drove through heavy snow to get to campus.
COVID-19
Tompkins County Reports Potential Exposure on TCAT Bus Route 14S
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On Saturday, the Tompkins County Health Department reported that a TCAT passenger had tested positive, and that the Bus Route 14S could have potentially exposed.
building trades workers
GUEST ROOM | Students, Stand in Solidarity with Ithaca’s Building Trades Workers
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As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to unevenly impact working-class and marginalized communities, it has become clear that no crisis can be separated from the influences of rampant economic inequality. The U.S. climate crises, which are reportedly increasing in frequency and magnitude each year, are no different. For this reason, the promise of the Green New Deal as a policy platform that can address climate change, environmental racism and economic injustice has inspired the imagination of millions across the country. But workers and union leaders nationwide are warning that a transition to clean energy that does not include strong worker protections can create dire consequences, further exacerbating the massive wealth gap by weakening organized labor and pushing workers into temporary, unstable, or unsafe work.
In the aftermath of Ithaca’s 2019 Green New Deal resolution, the local conversation has paralleled the national, with our community’s workers fighting for more worker-friendly policies to be prioritized in Tompkins county’s green jobs agenda. Currently, there is no worker representation on the county’s Industrial Development Agency, which is the department that provides tax abatements to developers seeking to build in the county and incentivizes many green development projects.
COVID-19
Tompkins Records Case Highs, Resident Deaths Through Thanksgiving Week
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As most Cornell students have left the Ithaca area until spring, coronavirus cases have dwindled on campus — but across Tompkins County and throughout the nation, case numbers are soaring to record highs.