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Ithaca realtor Lindsay Lustick Garner announced her candidacy on Facebook last week. However, she won’t be on voters' ballots, unlike her opponent, Assemblymember Anna Kelles.

A lack of affordable day care has plagued communities across the country, particularly in more rural areas. Tompkins County has been referred to as a “child care desert”.

The suit includes complaints against the state’s largest landfill as well as the Department of Environmental Conservation, which permits the site.

Ithaca Assemblymember Anna Kelles says Governor Kathy Hochul promised her they’d find a solution to save the carshare. Kelles is still optimistic Hochul will follow through.

Three local lawmakers had different takes on a measure to raise their own pay at the end of last year.

The legislation will temporarily pause new large-scale mining operations at dormant, fossil fuel-burning power plants, while the DEC studies the potential environmental impacts of the sector.

“I appreciate the ambition, but we want to see what the science says, what the facts say on the application and ultimately we'll make a determination on that and that alone."

Environmental activists call the move "political."

"Up to 100,000 people in the state that are actively seeking home health care cannot get it, because we do not have the supply of workforce in the state."

A debate over cryptocurrency mining on Seneca Lake turned into a broader test of the state’s climate law. That test is likely to come to a head in 2022.