CNY Residents Launch Campaign to Elect Bernie Sanders
Utica, New York: At a news conference in Utica this morning, an independent grassroots organization- CNY for Bernie - launched the local Bernie Sanders for President Campaign. Its major focus will be to help...
Frank Piasecki—An American Pioneer in Helicopters
By Ted and Joan Rajchel
Background
Frank Piasecki, an aviation pioneer, invented the tandem-rotor helicopter that has carried soldiers into battle and saved the lives of thousands of people from disasters. The helicopter he developed, the...
The Fire is Upon US: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate...
By Roger Chambers
The Fire is Upon US: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate of Race in America. Nicholas Buccola. Princeton University Press, 2019
A brief history of the civil rights movement from...
Sunrise Movement Hamilton College
Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. — On Friday, March 6, Sunrise Movement Hamilton College hosted a rally outside of the College’s administration building, Buttrick Hall, to demand that the college take action against the climate...
Rising Like The Water, Utica Activists Seek To Change A Broken System
By Jack Riffle and Martha Redmond
photos by Catherine Collett and Jenna Bunce
A movement is building in Utica that will be inclusive of all life, both human and non-human, on Earth. On December 6th, people...
Why We Should Go Metric
by Joe J. Jacob
On April 19th, 1973, Wilson Riles, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of California, called to announce that beginning in 1976 the Metric System would be taught in California. The...