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OP-ED: Legislators Must Center the Needs of Early Childhood Education Providers
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OP-ED: Legislators Must Center the Needs of Early Childhood Education Providers

  • Casey Goodwin, Director of the Child Care Center at Tompkins Cortland Community College
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As the director of the child care center at Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) in Dryden, New York, I recently traveled to Albany, New York, to testify on behalf of early childhood education providers and the children and families who rely on us for quality care. I represented not only my center but all the State University of New York centers and the child care centers in Tompkins County. I wanted to deliver one message: New York has a devastating child care crisis, and legislators can solve it by adequately funding early childhood education and care. Read moreOP-ED: Legislators Must Center the Needs of Early Childhood Education Providers

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Ithaca School District Fires Bus Driver

  • Marianne Saphra
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In October, a student on a school bus threatened to kill everyone on the bus with a gun they claimed to have. The bus driver reported the incident to his supervisor. The supervisor reported it to the principle plus other administrators, none of who notified the police. Only a parent did. Now after an investigation, who has been fired? The BUS DRIVER! What sort of school district do we live in? It is a sad state of affairs when our school officials, after not properly taking reporting this out of concern for the safety of our students, respond by laying the blame on the lowest possible person on the totem pole Read moreIthaca School District Fires Bus Driver

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ZaZa’s Window Display

  • Laurie Snyder
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It is with profound sadness that I write to the Ithaca Times.  Last Sunday, while walking with friends on the Ithaca Commons, I was appalled to see the window display of Zaza’s Exotic Market and Smoke Shop.  The display had 3 hookahs (water pipes) in the shape of machine guns, studded with rhinestones.   Read moreZaZa’s Window Display

Guest Opinions

Guest Opinion: The Bloc Party is Over
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Guest Opinion: The Bloc Party is Over

  • Dan Antonioli
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For close to four years Ithaca’s Green New Deal declarations of “decarbonizing all 60,000 of its buildings” and Climate Justice have had more than enough time to figure out how they’re going to reach these headline grabbing goals. “Carbon neutrality by 2023” and “climate justice” are worthy endeavors and many of us in the community have been asking how, and when, they are going to be achieved. Read moreGuest Opinion: The Bloc Party is Over

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