There was no meeting of the City of Ithaca Planning Board last month, but the board made up for lost time on Tuesday with a five-hour long meeting that featured the Planning Board’s introduction to the initial Downtown Neighborhood Plan proposal.
This summer, The Beacon published a four-part series that shed light on a major issue facing Kansas City: traffic deaths. Kansas City local government reporter Josh Merchant looked into why our city’s streets rank among the most dangerous in the country. That reporting showed the risk comes partly from street designs that allow cars to […]
Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools.Months after schools Chancellor David Banks removed a controversial parent leader from a Manhattan education council, a federal judge this week ordered she be t…
Former U.S. House of Representatives member Carolyn Maloney stopped in Ithaca Tuesday as part of a statewide bus tour to generate support for the federal Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
The legal case against the Ohio Ballot Board over ballot language for Issue 1, the anti-gerrymandering amendment, took an unusual turn last week when two of the board members agreed with the allegations against them.
Douglas Zaerr has been voting since he turned 18 years old. Now 61, he last cast his vote on the stadium sales tax in April. He was homeless at the time. He found housing recently, but he’d been homeless for much of the past 10 years — and it never stopped him from casting a […]
