The eight-member board was composed of citizens, as well as the Mayor of Ithaca. It had the power to direct the department of public works to fix certain sidewalks if it deemed it necessary, and presided over transformational infrastructure projects.
For years, a consumer watchdog and environmental advocates have urged the state to rethink policies that prolong the use of natural gas. They pressed the case Thursday with the Public Service Commission.
RCSD’s Chris Miller said the district is in a better position compared to this time two years ago when there were 352 vacancies. He credited the district’s downsizing.
One dollar a day. That’s how much immigrant detainees in GEO Group-run ICE facilities in Kern County earn scrubbing bathrooms and cutting hair, reports CalMatters’ Jeanne Kuang. Detainees at the Mesa Verde and Golden State Annex ICE facilities told Kuang they started their second labor and hunger strike in two years to protest poor working […]
ITHACA, N.Y. — One person was killed in a car crash that occurred Wednesday on Danby Road in Danby, according to the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office. As of Friday morning, […]
Leveling scathing criticisms at the country’s dominant political parties and hoping to inspire a mass grassroots movement, the vice presidential candidate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Karina Garcia, spoke to a crowd of supporters in Tucson on Wednesday night. Standing in a midtown church before about 100 people, Garcia made her pitch to […]
NC counties in severe drought see relief, though problems persist. Heavy rains raise new concerns for farmers, with hurricane season ahead.
From drought to deluge, weather whipsaw frustrates NC farmers is a story from Carolina Public Press, an award-w…
Gov. Gavin Newsom is pressing for direct action, nearly a month after the U.S. Supreme Court gave cities the green light to clear homeless encampments and arrest or fine unhoused people for sleeping in public spaces. As CalMatters homelessness reporter Marisa Kendall explains, the governor on Thursday issued an executive order directing state agencies to […]
Kamala Harris is bringing back Democratic donors who soured on President Biden. Donald Trump is counting on V.P. pick JD Vance to raise money in Silicon Valley.
