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The Ithaca Rescue Mission has served Ithaca’s homeless community for years. Many community members are concerned about the future: There has been tension between the Rescue Mission and Tompkins County, the announcement of their possible closure, and a public proposal process to take over the Ithaca homeless shelter. What exactly is going to happen to…
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Don Rakow, Associate Professor in Cornell University School of Integrative Plant Sciences, is a member of the local chapter of the Citizen’s Climate Lobby, also known as the CCL. He describes his organization’s proposal to Congress that they enact legislation that would establish a a carbon fee-and-dividend system. CCL believes that such a system would…
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WRFI’s Jackie Marusiak spoke with Frank Edwards, a postdoctoral associate at the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research at Cornell University. There he’s the leader of a study on the risk of police-involved death, based on race and location in the United States. Here’s what he had to say about the findings and implications of the…
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Joey Steinhagen, Artistic Director of the youth theatre program “Running to Places”, talks about how his organization will be building a new theatre. He talks about the reasons why the program has decided to find a permanent home, and the special features of the future theatre that will be established at the Ithaca Mall. This…
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