Megan Zerez, Report for America corps member
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The city launched the program as part of the Ithaca Green New Deal initiative, which aims to completely eliminate the city's net carbon emissions by 2030. -
Leslie Danks Burke and Lea Webb are competing for the Democratic nomination in the race for New York's 52nd State Senate District, which covers Ithaca and Binghamton. -
"People like me have been hearing the word 'wait' for as long as we can remember," Alderperson Phoebe Brown said. "It is imperative that we move on." -
The laws set standard wages for renewable energy jobs, set higher energy efficiency standards and incentivize thermal energy infrastructure and research. -
A school district in Lancaster County is considering a policy to bar transgender students from competing in teams that correspond to their gender. -
Some Ithaca residents say not all parents are able to come to the meetings in person. They say that cuts them out of the decision making process. -
District athletic director Samantha Little will replace Liddy Coyle and serve as interim principal at Northeast Elementary School. -
Kumar ran as part of the progressive “Solidarity Slate." She won more than 70% of the vote, ousting incumbent and fellow Cornell undergrad, Patrick Mehler. -
"[The ruling], especially, is making me not want to go far away from here," said 11th grader Samantha Kager. "Especially if I can't have free choice of what I want to do with my own body." -
The city's Common Council plans to vote next week on an ordinance that would make it more difficult for other states to investigate abortions in Ithaca.
