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 of funding and programs, the biggest loss was determined to...
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 the city looks as if it is dying. Utica is...
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 Good, Inc.
While she was there I explained the need for...
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 double-digit reduction in nearly every crime category when compared to...
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. So now, as so many downtown Utica businesses thrash over...
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 Heat” - goes on the air. Phoenix Radio will be...
Homeopathy is The Royal Family’s Answer to the Flu. Why Not You?
By: C Harris Lockwood
It hasn’t been named as yet but, there is an epidemic underway. A flu epidemic and interestingly one hundred years ago there was another, more widespread that actually devastated the planet....
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 the 60’s but we certainly activated it and fought for...
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 to present it again in the present wake of the...