Tompkins County Legislature approves homeless shelter property purchase The Tompkins County Legislature voted Tuesday to buy property for a new homeless shelter. Last month, the county’s only year-round shelter, operated by St. John’s Community Services, closed. 12/4/2024 - 8:16 pm | View Link
Proposed Homeless Bill of Rights makes moves in State House The bill seeks to provide protected rights to the unhoused, such as freedom of movement, non-discrimination, and access to medical care. 11/20/2024 - 3:04 pm | View Link
The United States Department of Agriculture will begin mandatory testing of US milk supplies for bird flu. The Friday announcement was a break from the previously voluntary testing program for the bird flu virus known as H5N1.
This strain of bird flu was first found in US dairy cattle in March, according to the USDA.
In 1989, Chuck Stuart called 911 on his car phone to report a shooting.
He told a dispatcher that he and his wife Carol were leaving a birthing class at a Boston hospital when a man forced him to drive into the mixed-race Mission Hill neighborhood, and shot them both. Carol Stuart would die that night, hours after her son was delivered by cesarean section.
The effort to impeach South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol failed on Saturday morning. Yoon was able to survive because his party, the People Power Party, ultimately opposed impeachment.
The impeachment effort came after Yoon set off a political crisis earlier this week in South Korea by declaring martial law. Yoon’s move led to protests and a bipartisan parliamentary vote to reject the martial law declaration.
Above, Pet Shop Boys perform, Opportunities. I'll just say it plainly: I don’t like our rapacious healthcare AND I don't like vigilantism in the same way I don't like the death penalty. There's a fine line between "they had it coming" and the shooting-up of a nightclub, a synagog, or a Black church.
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House Republicans on Thursday voted against releasing the House Ethics Committee report about former Rep. Matt Gaetz's alleged child sex trafficking, protecting the Florida Republican whose nomination to be attorney general went up in flames thanks to his history of bad behavior.read more