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ICSD Board Cuts Proposed Budget Ahead of May 21 Vote The Ithaca City School Board has made cuts to their proposed budget. According to the Ithaca Times, the adjustment was made after a 5-hour meeting with the public. Board members heard from a range of homeowners who spoke to the effect of rising taxes on Ithaca’s already serious housing affordability crisis. The school tax levy had originally been proposed to grow by more than 12%. The board eventually approved a proposed budget that would lower the levy by approximately $4 million through a combination of cuts and use of reserve funds. The new levy would still be an 8.4% increase. Because the increase…
Lori Sonken talks with former commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation Dan Beard about water policy, the environmental impact of dams, and his new book, Deadbeat Dams: Why we Should Abolish the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Tear Down Glen Canyon Dam. This interview aired on June 24, 2015.
Read MoreSamuel Whitehead speaks with Tompkins County 6th District Legislator Mike Sigler about the fate of the Cayuga Power Plant and the future of the former Tompkins County Public Library site. This interview originally aired on the June 22nd, 2015 edition of WRFI Community Radio News.
Read MoreFaith Meckley and Emma Rizzo speak with Solar Schuyler coordinator Sam Maggio about the new effort to expand solar power in Schuyler County and how the organization is making that a reality. This interview originally aired on the June 19th, 2015 edition of WRFI Community Radio News
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ICSD Board Cuts Proposed Budget Ahead of May 21 Vote The Ithaca City School Board has made cuts to their proposed budget. According to the Ithaca Times, the adjustment was made after a 5-hour meeting with the public. Board members heard from a range of homeowners who spoke to the effect of rising taxes on…
Read MoreGraduate students at Cornell are pushing the administration to act more quickly in negotiations with their union. According to the Ithaca Voice, last week about 200 graduate students rallied at Day Hall. Organizer Sadie Seddon-Stettler said that the university isn’t making contract negotiation a priority. The union maintains a dashboard showing the status of various…
Read MoreCompeting rallies were held at Cornell Sunday. One was billed as a “Jewish Unity” rally and featured speakers who decried what they say is a rise in antisemitism at Cornell and across the country. The other was organized by the Coalition for Mutual Liberation whose demands include that Cornell divest from what they call genocide…
Read MoreThis is the last of my three stories about freedom of expression at Cornell University this year. Here are links to the first and second stories. The academic theme at Cornell this year is “Freedom of Expression.” In earlier stories, we reported about the general mood at Cornell around free speech, and students’ opinions about…
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