Community Action – It’s Time For A Change
By Casandra Harris-Lockwood, editor-in-chief
In 2010 when then-Mayor Roefaro hired a consultant to research the impact of the loss of UCAI’s $10 million annual infusion...
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
Driving through downtown Utica for the first time since college some 40 years ago, I was both alarmed and saddened to see that...
Community Foundation Turns Back on Poor
It will soon be two years ago that Alicia Fernandez Dicks, CEO of the Community Foundation, last sat in the office of For The...
Padre Pio Patron Saint of Utica?
By Cassandra Harris-Lockwood
So, 2017 City of Utica records indicates that crime is down substantially in our city. It was reported that there was a...
From The Desk Of The Editor: An Invitation To South Street
By: Cassandra Harris-Lockwood
There was never any plan for South Street once Urban Renewal came in and tore down most of the shops and stores....
New Radio Voice FCC Approved Utica Phoenix Radio 95.5 FM
Utica area listeners will hear a new kind of radio starting early this summer as Utica Phoenix Radio- also to be known as “The...
The Patriarchy and Misogyny
Written By Cassandra Harris- Lockwood
The Patriarchy and Misogyny
'Feminism' is Merriam-Webster's word of the year, and rightly so. Not that we coined the phrase in...
My Aunt Dr. Jean Harris was a Trailblazing Female Physician
Editor's Note: This is my Aunt, Dr. Jean Harris from the 1955 cover of Ebony Magazine. She was the first Black doctor graduated from...
Bad Guys Don’t Like Dogs
By Cassandra Harris-Lockwood
This is an edited version of an article I wrote several years ago shortly after the Sandy Hook Massacre. I was moved...
Women’s History Month: “We Don’t Hire Girls” — Becoming the First Female Construction Worker...
By C. Harris-Lockwood | Photos by the late Anne LaBastille
The year was 1971. I was 19 years old and between my freshman and sophomore...