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Newsline Marijuana

State cannabis board answers residents’ most pressing questions

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he state’s Cannabis Control Board is making its rounds in public information sessions as it works to construct legislation regarding the cannabis industry. Board Chair Tremaine Wright held a Q&A session to answer some of the most-asked questions from people in this region. The following answers are not direct quotes from Wright unless noted with quotation marks.

Q: When will medical patients be allowed to cultivate their own plants?

A: The public comment period for homegrown plants ended in mid-January. When a review of comments is done the board will release amended regulations for additional comments. It will likely be a few more months before regulations are finalized.

Q: Can local townships restrict the number of cannabis cultivators they allow?

A: Municipalities cannot opt out of cultivation, even if they opt out of sales and onsite consumption. Localities can determine where and how businesses operate, but they cannot create rules so oppressive that it effectively bans the industry.

Q: How does cannabis management play into tobacco control?

A: Tobacco and nicotine will not be allowed in any cannabis products, and the cannabis laws will borrow from best practices for tobacco, especially regarding marketing to youth.

Q: What’s going to be done about driving under the influence of marijuana?

A: People have been using cannabis in New York for a long time, so this risk is not a new one. Driving while impaired is illegal and dangerous, and public information will include education and resources to keep roads safe. There will also be additional law enforcement training to help officers

identify when someone is impaired by cannabis.

Q: Can out-of-state cannabis companies come into the New York market?

A: The market the Cannabis Control Board is building will give priority to equity applicants and small businesses.

Outside companies will be part of it, but the goal of the board is to create space for small and medium-sized businesses.

Q: Should we anticipate license caps per county?

A: There’s been a lot of conversation about license caps, but the goal is more about creating a stable market where the supply can meet demand.

Q: What are employment rights regarding marijuana?

A: Employers are prohibited from discriminating against employees based on use of cannabis outside of work hours

outside of the workplace. That’s obviously different if an employer contracts with the federal government, as cannabis is still illegal at the federal level.

Cannabis is legal for anyone 21+ in New York, but employers can have policies that prohibit impairment on the job.

“I want to stress that the smell of cannabis is not evidence of impairment.”

Q: Are there any plans to spread awareness of the risks of cannabis?

A: The board is working to make sure people are aware of available supports and there will be a public education plan. Cannabis has been used for a long time but this is the first opportunity to speak only about the damage it can cause to growing brains, as well as the risks it poses in pregnant and breastfeeding women. It’s an opportunity to have robust conversations about health and the abuse and misuse of cannabis products.

Q: What money will be brought into play proactively to respond to addiction issues?

A: A percentage of tax dollars from the cannabis industry will go toward education and drug treatment programs.

Q: What type of zoning is required for cannabis retail, cultivation, etc. Are there restrictions?

A: Dispensaries and on-site consumption venues cannot be within 500 feet of a school or 200 feet of a religious institution. There are no other specific zoning requirements for other types of cannabis businesses, and localities can determine when/where/how these businesses exist in their jurisdiction. The one thing

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▶ Mental health - Tompkins County Mental Health Department is announcing that intakes for new clients have resumed following a temporary limit due to staffing shortages in Dec. 2021.

Harmony Ayers-Friedlander, deputy mental health commissioner stated, “Our priority is to meet the need in our community, and we greatly

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locales can’t do is create restrictive local zoning laws that effectively keep cannabis businesses out of their jurisdiction.

Q: When will regulations and applications be released?

A: The Cannabis Control Board was only created in October, but it has made some quick progress with hopes to release regulations in early spring. That will be followed with a five or six-month public comment period. “Most importantly, we’re trying to get this right.”

Q: Will there be safety testing of products?

A: Product safety is being taken very seriously, and the ability to provide customers with safe cannabis is one of the driving forces behind legalization. The protocol for testing is still to come, but there will be robust product testing before anything can hit the shelves.

Q: What services are available now through the state or otherwise to help build a business plan?

A: In the coming months there will be programs rolled out to assist potential cannabis business owners. It’s also important to look at business development services offered by your town or local development corporations.

Q: Will cannabis restaurants be allowed?

A: Regulations for on-site consumption have not yet been determined. There is a prohibition on cannabis and alcohol being sold in the same location though.

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appreciate our partners and residents for being patient as we navigate these challenging times. During the past month, we have been able to hire new staff and increase our capacity to receive new clients. We continue to actively recruit therapists to fill open positions. If you know anyone who may be interested, please share the position announcements

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available on the Human Resources website.” Current vacancies at the Mental Health Department include: Several openings for Licensed Clinical Therapists in the adult clinic, forensic, and PROS programs for multiple clinician types including LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LCATs, LMFTs. Full job description and application are available on the Human Resources website.

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Development

PHOTOGRAPHER Guthrie opens new City Harbor facility

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IN WHAT FICTIONAL WINTER OLYMPIC EVENT ARE YOU POSITIVE YOU COULD WIN GOLD IF YOU WERE COMPETING AGAINST YOUR FAMILY?

“Penguin Riding.”

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“SPEED RUNNING PARCOR AKKIMBO MACHINE GUNNING!” -Isaac B.

Lansing Town Council to pursue changes to zoning code to prohibit cryptomining

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• Endoscopy • ENT and Facial Plastic Surgery • Gastroenterology • General Surgery • Interventional Pain Management • Nephrology • Neurosurgery • Optometry and Optical Services • Orthopedics • Physical, Occupational

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uthrie Ithaca City Harbor officially opened its doors on Monday, Feb. 7. The facility is a $30 million, 60,000 square-foot, three-story medical office building. It offers primary care, daily walk-in care, and 20 specialties, including: • Audiology • Colorectal Surgery • Comprehensive Breast Care

ot willing to risk the possibility of an application for a cryptocurrency mining development being submitted in the coming months, the Lansing Town Council is aiming to have a local law drafted and approved by March that will forbid such developments in the municipality.

This decision was made in light of a report delivered by the Lansing Advisory Committee on Power Plant Future (LAC-PPF) to the town council in December of 2021 that outlined the committee’s sus-

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picions that a cryptocurrency — specifically Bitcoin — mining facility is being proposed at the site of the former Cayuga Power Plant by the owners of the plant.

The news of this potential development blindsided the town council as it was its understanding that the data center would not be used for mining cryptocurrency.

In 2019, the council passed a resolution issuing its support of the Cayuga Operating Company’s decision to build a data center at the site. At a

and Hand Therapy • Radiology • Sports Medicine • Urology Guthrie points to a stateof-the-art GI/Endoscopy suite and comprehensive breast care including 3D mammography, a fellowship-trained breast radiologist and breast surgeon as highlights of the new facility.

The sports medicine team, with multiple orthopedic surgeons, is trained in all parts of the body. An expansive physical, occupational and hand therapy area gets patients ready to return to their active lifestyle.

Guthrie Ithaca City Harbor also boasts comprehensive eye care services including an optical shop.

“From the beginning, it’s felt like a collaboration to meet the needs of the residents of Tompkins County,” said Dr. Edmund Sabanegh, president and CEO of The Guthrie Clinic. “The ability to complete a project in such a key piece of the city’s development was a fantastic opportunity, both for The Guthrie Clinic and more importantly, for our patients.”

Guthrie Ithaca City Harbor sits on the TCAT bus route, and kiosk check-in will streamline the registration process.

“The modernization means all things done in one place,” said Dr. David Ristedt, regional medical director of The Guthrie Clinic. “You’re going to get

your blood drawn in the room, you’re going to be screened in the room, and the doctor is going to see you in the same room, so really the whole visit is focused around you not having to move, but the rest of us moving around you.”

The building is located on Willow Avenue and is part of a bigger City Harbor project, which will add 156 apartment units and a promenade. This time last year, owner Costa Lambrou said the project was dealing with COVID-related financial issues due to banks not lending as much money during the pandemic. The project has been in front of the city’s Planning and Development Board off and on over the past year to continue tweaking the design of the rest of the project, which still needs to be approved.

Scheduling an appointment can be done through the online eGuthrie portal at www. eGuthrie.org, even offering walk-in patients an opportunity to reserve their spot.

Using eGuthrie, patients can also message their care team, have a virtual visit, view test results, request prescription refills and more. Patients can also schedule appointments by calling 866-GUTHRIE (866488-4743).

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special meeting held on Feb. 2, 2022, Councilman Joe Wetmore quoted from an information leaflet the council received on the proposed data center, which stated directly that the company is “not targeting Bitcoin or any other cyber currency” with the project.

Even though it has yet to be confirmed whether or not the data center would be used as a facility for cryptocurrency mining, the council is electing to not wait and see. Thus, the council chose to hold a special meeting Feb. 2 to discuss strategies moving forward.

One of the main questions sought to be answered was whether the council wants to address this dilemma via a moratorium on cryptocurrency mining development and then review the town’s zoning code, or if it wants to just dive right into reviewing and revising the zoning code.

Town Attorney Guy Krogh said it depends on how soon the council believes an application for a cryptocurrency mining development could be submitted to the town.

“Whether a moratorium or zoning amendment, both would involve a local law; it’s a question of what you want to invest in, and whether or not the horizon is so near that you have no choice … but to pursue a moratorium,” Krogh said.

One of the biggest challenges, according to Krogh, that the council will face is how it wants to define the “nebulous industry,” as he refers to it, of cryptocurrency mining in its zoning code.

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Ups It’s Olympic time again! Cornell student Karen Chen ‘23 is currently competing for the women’s figure skating program, placing fourth in the individual free skate.

Downs That groundhog in Pennsylvania claims there will be six more weeks of winter. We’ll see.

HEARD&SEEN Heard Now former mayor Svante Myrick posted a brief thank you and farewell on Sunday night as he officially left office, putting acting mayor Laura Lewis in charge.

Seen As always, crews were hard at work clearing snow from the roads in Tompkins County after another snow storm. Thank you!

IF YOU CARE TO RESPOND to something in this column, or suggest your own grievances or praise, write news@ithacatimes.com, with a subject head “U&D.”

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Legislature celebrates Black history month, works on Recovery Fund program

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t the Feb. 1 meeting, the County Legislature discussed what funds to use for the to-be-determined consultant tasked with administering the Community Recover Fund grant program.

Legislator Rich John moved that the amount needed (to be determined) for the consultant be structured to be subtracted from the county’s fund balance, separate from the $6.53 million set aside for the Recovery Fund. The Budget Capital and Personnel committee will further consider the resolution at their next meeting. The motion passed 10-3 with Legislators Dan Klein, Mike Lane, and chair Shawna Black (D-Ithaca) opposed.

A proclamation was read acknowledging attorney James Baker for his service as acting supervising attorney contributing to the Tompkins County

Assigned Counsel program upon his retirement from practicing law. John called the Assigned Counsel program a key to “our criminal justice system in Tompkins County.”

John added that Baker helped people in the community going through some of the worst times in their lives.

A proclamation was read celebrating Black History Month along with a recorded rendition of “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as performed by the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers. The proclamation acknowledged several influential Black members of the Ithaca community including Civil Rights Leader Dr. Dorothy Cotton and Ruth Carol Taylor, the first Black flight attendant in the United States.

Chair Shawna Black stated, “We have a rich history of influential Black residents. Our

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” performed by the Dorothy Cotton Jubilee Singers via video recording at the Feb 1 meeting of the Tompkins County Legislature (Photo Provided)

History Center, housed in the Tompkins Center for History and Culture has a great set of resources on local Black history from the Underground Railroad to new curriculum from Southside community center. I would like to point everyone to the History Center’s Oral History Collection, where you can hear recent reflections on the Black experience in our community. When I see these resources, I feel proud of the work that the county does to support the History Center archiving and presenting this work.”

Black continued, “While we might focus on and highlight the remarkable or influential, every Black history is important and our ongoing work as a County should honor and support the diversity of backgrounds and experiences in our communities. I look forward to seeing and hearing about the programming that our community partners and departments participate in this

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month to honor Black History.”

An update was given on the Reimagining Public Safety Collaborative by Chief Equity and Diversity Officer Deanna Carrithers and Community Justice Center Project Director Monalita Smiley. The update included details on welcoming Smiley into her new role leading implementation of collaborative Reimagining plans and her getting to know key stakeholders both internally at the county and City of Ithaca and externally in the community. Several plans are in progress, including a kickoff to the “Community Healing Plan,” specifically designed to support the Black community in Ithaca and Tompkins County.

Carrithers shared additional information on the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Office Pilot Program plan to telephonically address certain non-dangerous calls – Sheriff ’s Clerks are being recruited now for those non-sworn officer positions.

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SURROUNDED BY REALITY

Thank you for a push toward justice

Hail to the Sunshine State

By Hope M a l c om M a ltz

By C h a r l ey G i t h l e r

his week marks the 35th year since the day my brother, David Malcom, was murdered while managing the local American Red Cross emergency shelter.

Last year, I wrote an open letter to you, the Ithaca community, to ask for your support in calling for renewed efforts by the authorities to achieve resolution in David’s case. (Sister of murder victim seeks answers 34 years later | Guest Opinions | ithaca.com) I asked you to reach out and contact people in positions to act.

And you responded! Your calls and letters and yes, even a podcast, passionately demanded justice for David Malcom from the Chief of Police, the District Attorney, the Governor, the Attorney General, and the local and national offices of the American Red Cross. You made a huge difference on many fronts.

First, to me, as I no longer feel so alone in my grief and the emotional devastation the lack of closure the past 35 years have brought. And secondly, to the case, which has received invigorated attention and commitment from law enforcement.

Over the past year, the Ithaca Police Department and the New York State Police have uncovered significant leads by

T’S TIME FOR A FLORIDA VACATION! Spring Break is coming up, and with coastlines on both the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, sunny Florida is home to plenty of surprises. Visit perennial Florida favorites such as beaches and theme parks – then go beyond them to discover natural treasures, first-rate cultural attractions and hidden gems.

We’re more than college football scandals and hurricanes. Also more than the state with the highest incidence of suspended driver’s licenses.

Whatever you’re imagining, you can make it real here. Explore the wide-open beauty of Florida!

Places to go Central Florida was practically built with fun in mind. There are the theme parks, of course, but don’t miss the opportunity of a trip to sun-drenched Orlando where visitors are welcome to lend a hand with the traditional anti-Semitic slurs and displaying authentic replica Nazi flags on an idyllic Interstate 4 overpass. Nearby Polk County hosted one of their old-time school library book-banning festivals last week. Of course, if a coastal fantasyland is more your style, Palm Beach County boasts Mar-A-Lago, the Utopian community where legend has it that “dreams never die.”

Things to do Floridians are justly proud of their Ivy League-educated governor Ron DeSantis, whose thoughtful commentary and dignified bearing were honed at Yale and Harvard Law School.

Join His Honor in chanting “Let’s Go Brandon” at the duly-elected president of the United States. Still hungry for culture?

Drop in at just about any county school board meeting for a bracing address on microchips and masks by local citizens steeped in hours of online epidemiology research and our famous Okefenokee moonshine.

Deals For the month of February, redeem your visitor’s coupon for a 15% discount on two of the governor’s most popular licensed merch items: “Freedom Over Fauci” flip flops, and “Don’t Fauci My Florida” sleeveless tee shirts. (Note: Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and is the

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chief medical adviser to the president.)

Must See The name “Florida” is Seminole for “Land of the Hanging Chads.” Rich as it is in delightful polling lore, Florida now has some of the boldest voting regulations in the country!

Watch prospective voters attempt to get mail ballots or find a drop box. Like gambling? Place a bet at any licensed pari-mutuel location on whether someone’s ID will be deemed acceptable. There might even be an Election Police Force, with real helmets,

by November. The whole thing’s a hoot, and it’s free!

Attractions A new favorite vacation destination is our capital, Tallahassee, and it’s a reliable bargain for sheer entertainment value. This year, Florida legislators introduced a bill that would protect white citizens from feeling discomfort caused by teachings about America’s racial past. There’s no former slave state where visitors are safer from awkward thoughts. Seminole Wars?

Never heard of ‘em! You can leave that baggage home! Watch them debate the 15-week abortion ban bill, or the “Don’t Say Gay” bill that prohibits the discussion of sexuality or gender identity in elementary schools. (Note: Seating is limited.)

More So many visitors are drawn to the sheer excitement of a Florida vacation. You just never know what’s around the next corner. It might be a charming, unexpected road rage incident, losing your rental car in one of our worldfamous sinkholes, or sharing a quiet moment with a 12-foot Burmese python, but you’ll soon learn to expect the unexpected. It literally rained frozen iguanas last month!

Plan your visit Whether you’re coming for a week of beach fun, a visit to the Magic Kingdom, or you’re fleeing the consequences of a lifetime of bad decisions, think of Florida as your home away from home. We’re the most welcoming state in the United States! (Note: Not available to immigrants.)

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we are now closer than we’ve ever been to knowing what happened to my brother on February 11, 1987.

I know it has been an uphill struggle for the investigators working to make David’s murder a priority in light of the inevitable inertia that develops when a case remains cold for this long. I feel much gratitude for the many ways in which the Ithaca Police Department has evolved over these decades, for their dedication to solving this case, and for their tireless innovation in finding new ways to pursue justice for my brother. I also appreciate the interagency collaboration that has brought us closer to the truth.

David’s life, and death, continue to matter deeply to people. I’ve received an outpouring of love and solidarity, as well as outrage and grief. I feel the wonder of belonging among this group of people who were so powerfully touched by my brother. People are still suffering trauma

and emotional turmoil — from our losing him, and through such a violent act. I long for the day when we more fully know the truth.

Please join me in remembering my brother, David Malcom, on this, the 35th anniversary of the day he lost his life in an act of violence while he was serving those in great need. Extend a hand to someone, light a candle, open your heart.

As we anticipate the possibility of closure in this case, a small group of friends are beginning to plan a gathering in Ithaca over the summer to celebrate David’s life and honor his legacy. We hope to share our stories, make music, dance, and think of ways to help others come to terms with unresolved criminal tragedies.

For more information about this, please consider joining our mailing list at justicefordavidmalcom.net to receive updates as our plans take shape.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for all your support. It means the world to all of us who love David.

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prohibit during the moratorium, or what you wish to exclude as an allowed use in whatever zones or all zones of the town, whether by overlay district, whether by general prohibition, whether by updating the definitions of what is small industry, what is computer-based businesses, whatever it is you’re going to do,” he said.

The town would also need to make sure they are writing these definitions in a nondiscriminatory manner.

“If you want to allow restaurants, but prohibit Olive Garden, that’s a problem,” Krogh said. “If you want to allow retail, but prohibit Rexall drugs, that’s a problem.

So you have these rules of uniformity and what you’re trying to regulate is the nature of land use or community impacts and not who is the owner. If you’re going to allow warehousing, but not allow warehousing for construction materials, that’s allowed. I think it’s going to take a little bit of thinking to understand what exactly is this business and what are its definitions.”

Two deterrents of cryptocurrency mining facilities are that they require a significant amount of energy in order to function and that they typically do not produce a large amount of jobs in a community.

Town Supervisor Ed LaVigne asked about setting zoning parameters around limiting development of businesses that are either high-energy consuming and/or low-job creating, which Krogh responded to by saying such parameters would be too risky legally.

“If you want to talk about something that may have high energy usage, but with low job creation, you might be describing an awful lot of daycare centers and nursery schools,” Krogh said. “Not on the same scale, but how do you ratio that? Is it number of employees per megawatt hour? I can just see a lot of problems with that broad

of a net. What I think might be better is to just not allow land uses in town that you do not want in town, but not to do it on a discriminatory basis, but to do it on a policy basis born in your comprehensive plan. Promoting employment, promoting energy conservation, those are all tools that you have.”

On the whole, the town would be able to flatout prohibit development of cryptocurrency mining businesses if used such methods.

“As long as you get the definition down well enough so that you’re catching that which you wish to catch and not all other industries, I think you can pick and choose what you want to allow in the town,” Krogh said.

Towards the end of the discussion, the council revisited the topic of implementing a moratorium or not, and eventually decided to hold off on it and try to amend the zoning code in a short period of time.

The plan that was ultimately decided upon was to produce a draft of a local law for the zoning changes and their enforcement and do so to allow the proper amount of time to set a public hearing for the law at the council’s March 16 meeting (and possibly set another public hearing for its April 20 meeting if needed.).

There was some deliberation on whether or not that goal is attainable, but multiple council members felt it was the right timeframe for the situation.

“I know that’s pushing it and optimistic, but … we don’t want an application to come up while we’re doing this,” Councilwoman Bronwyn Losey said. “So if we’re going to be making the definition and doing the work, let’s go ahead and get it done.”

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YOUR LETTERS Rep. Tenney should be honest about election fraud

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n the current polarized political atmosphere, concern for “election integrity” is Republican code for the false claim that widespread fraud was committed in the 2020 presidential election. This is part of the “Big Lie’ that the election was “stolen” from Donald Trump. Yet, every claim of “fraud” brought by Trump’s lawyers after the election was rejected by courts around the country.

Sadly, many Republicans in Congress either truly believe this Big Lie or go along with it out of fear. I recently learned that Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (R-New Hartford) is co-chair of an all-Republican “Election Integrity Caucus” whose apparent purpose is to fight any voting rights legislation supported by Democrats. Okay, so now that the two signature Democratic voting rights bills were defeated in the Senate, I wonder what “election integrity” issue Tenney’s caucus will focus on next?

If Rep. Tenney is truly concerned about election fraud she need look no further than the fraudulent, forged documents signed by so-called Trump “Electors” in five swing states won by Biden. These forged certificates purported to show that Trump had won in those states, when clearly he had not. As recent news reports have shown, these false documents look very similar, and appear to be part of a concerted effort by pro-Trump forces to overturn a national election. The attorney general of one of these states (Michigan) has already referred this matter to the federal Department of Justice, since the production of such documents could be subject to federal forgery charges.

Talk about election integrity! Why isn’t Tenney’s caucus investigating these Electoral College imposters?

If Congresswoman Tenney fails to inform her supporters that Trump’s claim of a “stolen” election is a baseless lie, she is not only doing a disservice to them, but to our American democratic system.

-Joel Rabinowitz, Groton, NY

In Memory of Wilbert Mora, Jason Rivera and all officers

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ear Police Officers, My name is Peaches Gillette, and like most everyone, certainly those in New York, I heard about the recent and tragic loss of your fellow officers. I send my deepest condolences

to each of you for this significant loss. My heart aches for them, for those who love them, and for each of you. This sort of incident can evoke feelings of hopelessness and apprehension that can create unshakable darkness in anyone.

No one deserves to be murdered senselessly under any circumstances; there is no acceptable excuse for this type of violence and depravity.

I see the disturbing reality of this world. I know the tension between the police and communities of color is undisguised and explosive. The public is rightfully concerned about increasing racist attitudes in general and within the police department itself - they are justified in feeling disturbed by police officers who have lost their humanity. By protesting or petitioning legislators, we can continue to bring attention to these concerns and dismantle these racist activities.

But rather than close our hearts and minds to these dedicated, police officers who continue to try and protect us, we should open them up. The work of law enforcers is by no means easy. It is, in fact, perilous and challenging in every way.

The only truly just world must be just for everyone. Justice includes law enforcement officers, Black lives, and all lives.

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.” Dr. Martin Luther Kingp Jr. May each step you take be done in safety.

May your thoughts be tempered by fairness and peace.

May you use your power to build a better world.

May you always get home unharmed, and without harming another.

May those you love be able to embrace you at the end of each day, as you embrace them.

May your prayers protect you and your comrades.

May light and love surround you and rest in your heart.

This is my prayer to each of you.

-Peaches Gillette, Ithaca, NY

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READY TO WORK

Monalita Smiley is rolling up her sleeves and getting to work as the new executive director of the Community Justice Center

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By Ta n n e r H a r di ng

onalita Smiley doesn’t like interviews. Well, really what she doesn’t like is talking about herself.

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“I’m used to being behind the scenes and making things happen,” she said. “Just offering help with no recognition.”

Those days, however, are long gone as Smiley was named executive director of the Community Justice Center (CJC). The CJC was established in 2021 by the city of Itha-

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ca’s Common Council and the Tompkins County Legislature. Smiley is now responsible for implementing the joint Reimagining Public Safety plans passed in March 2021.

She has more than 20 years of leadership experience serving the Tompkins County

M o n a l i ta S m i l e y ( P h o t o : C a s e y M a r t i n) and Ithaca communities. Most recently, she served as the director of youth outreach at The Learning Web. She also volunteers as a

board member at local nonprofits, including the Southside Community Center. In fact, she’s currently working with the Black Girl Alchemist group at Southside to design a Reimagining Public Safety-themed mural for her office.

Her dedicated relationship to her local community is one of the things Smiley said made her interested in this position.

“I’ll be using my relationships with different community members to engage them in this process,” she said. “I’ve met a lot of key stakeholders […] and I’ve had the opportunity to meet with various key players in government, law enforcement and community wide. Everybody has been super welcoming and wanting to develop working relationships, so that’s what I’m looking forward to.”

At her previous position, Smiley worked with at-risk homeless youth, so she’s not unfamiliar with the justice system, though her experience comes mainly in the courts.

“That’s more of a supportive role,” she said. “I don’t have a whole bunch of experience directly dealing with the police.”

But dealing with the police will be a major part of her new position. The Community Justice Center was established as a result of the Reimagining Public Safety collaborative, which came from former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s executive order to examine local law enforcement agencies and come up with ways they can better serve the public, specifically communities of color. At least, that’s the essence of the executive order.

Many, in fact most, municipalities took the easy way out. While there was a deadline to submit a plan in response to the executive order, there was no real oversight or approval process of the plans. And by that point, Cuomo was swept up in sexual harassment scandals and eventually resigned to avoid impeachment.

However, Ithaca and Tompkins County saw the former governor’s challenge and rose to the occasion. Led by former county administrator Jason Molino and former Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick, the collaborative announced 19 recommendations for improving policing at the city and county levels. Some were joint recommendations, others were city or county specific. The one that made headlines, of course, was the proposal to replace the Ithaca Police Department with the Department of Public Safety and Community Solutions. Luckily for Smiley, that specific recommendation is not her responsibility.

One of her first focuses is the community healing plan, which is a joint recommendation.

“We’re going to have communication and conversation on really heavy topics,” Smiley said.

She said first the Black and brown communities would come together for discussion, before bringing the results of those conversations to the general public and eventually law enforcement.

“That’s one of the recommendations I’m excited about working on,” she said.

“I’m concerned, and the only way to have change is to involve all the key stakeholders.”

Smiley noted that she expects some resistance from folks, but that she believes education will be key.

“The more informed people are, the better it is,” she said. “Some people don’t understand what Reimagining Public Safety is, so the more information that is shared with them, the more knowledgeable and accepting they’ll become.”

clusive of everyone. It’s pretty amazing to watch from the inside after being someone who was just looking at it from the outside.”

And Smiley makes it clear that she can handle the hard work.

“Hard work comes with life, it is what it is,” she said. “Using the skills that I do have, I think I’m going to be OK.” Some of the hard work she’s been doing in her first month on the job has just been catching up on the work that’s already been done. She said she’s done a ton of reading, done a bit of training, and met with many of the people she’ll be working with.

“I was a little uneasy entering into a new situation,” she said. “Fear of the unknown is what it is, I guess. But the stakeholders have been absolutely amazing with volunteering information and just being open and willing to let me sit in on different things so I have a better idea of what they do and where they’re coming from.”

Smiley is technically a county employee being contracted to the city for the Community Justice Center work, and she said

“You help wherever and whenever you can. It’s just part of who I am.”

-Monalita Smiley

However, she knows that all the education in the world still won’t make the process easy.

“It’s a lot of information to take in, and it’s interesting because everyone interprets things differently,” Smiley said. “Clarification and transparency are my two big things. Clarify what people think, and be transparent in the work that we’re doing.”

Smiley has been in office for just about a month now, and said there’s been a big learning curve as she establishes herself.

This process has been going on for over a year, and she said it’s been impressive to see all the work behind the scenes.

“Coming into this I was a community member, and you see what is put out there in the news or on the website, but on the other side I get to see all the hard work all these different committees and people who are working on the project are putting in,” she said. “It’s a lot of work. There’s a lot of people who have a stake in this. They want to be successful, and they want to be in-

the county has a program where new employees get a “buddy” to check in with and help with the transition into the new role.

Smiley’s buddy is a familiar one to anyone who has followed along with the Reimagining Public Safety process so far — Chief Equity and Diversity Office Deanna Carrithers. “[She’s] like a walking book of Reimagining,” Smiley said.

Carrithers has been heavily involved with the Reimagining Public Safety plan and was part of the hiring committee who brought Smiley on. Carrithers said the county was lucky to have a lot of worthy candidates, but said Smiley’s warmth and commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion and justice made her a “stellar” candidate.

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possibility of bias and increase diversity in hiring.

“Her experience just rose to the top,” Carrithers said of Smiley.

She added that since Smiley has started, she has brought thoughtful and reflective qualities to the role, and said she appreciates how much time she’s taken to understand the operations behind the Reimagining process.

“She’s taking time to build relationships, but also expressing urgency,” she said.

The CJC was established officially late last spring, so getting the right person in the role of executive director has been a long time coming.

“This is a mile marker,” Carrithers said.

“I’m excited that she has joined the Reimagining collaborative. However, in terms of executive order 203, we are just at the beginning. We have a long ways to go. We believe we are building credibility for the plan, but we have a long ways to go and Mona being here is part of the process to dig deeper.”

Indeed, hiring an executive director is just the start of implementing the plan. In the next six months, Smiley said people can expect to see the CJC come together as a real, functioning department as she works to hire a data analyst and an administrative assistant. She also expects to, in that timeframe, release standardized law enforcement data, start the community healing plan, and establish wraparound care for human services.

“We’re also going to continue to build targeted relationships and partnerships with minoritized organizations,” Smiley said.

Building those relationships is the important work, both Smiley and Carrithers said.

“Mona being here is part of the process to dig deeper into the roots of the community and making sure people have a voice in the process,” Carrithers said. “That’s the exciting part. Getting to touch people in their hearts.”

Smiley, with her long history in human services, agreed. She said the shift to the new position has been quiet compared to the constant crises at her last job, but that she’s looking forward to continuing to help people with her work.

“I think it’s in my nature, that’s how I was raised by my parents,” she said. “You help wherever and whenever you can. It’s just part of who I am. So I’m going to instill that into this new position and this new transition in my life and bring this Reimagining Public Safety project to life.”

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he fact that my back is killing me after a prolonged wrestling match with my snowblower makes it somewhat amusing to write about the upcoming spring sports season. That said, I assure you that my wrestling match is not the topic of this week’s story.

This is a lacrosse story, and I will say that I anticipate a real internal conflict brewing for many local fans. On April 16, our beloved Big Red will step onto Schoellkopf Field to face Army, and while Big Red fans will no doubt cheer for the home team, they will also be proud to see an Ithaca High grad suiting up for the Black Knights. Those who understand the significance of that player’s involvement in that game will see an even more compelling story line.

When Ryan Sposito was playing lacrosse at Ithaca High, there was little doubt that he would play at the Division I level. The midfielder had paid his dues. He had come up through Ithaca’s great feeder program, he had done the camps and the clinics and played in the big travel tournaments, and he was one of the mainstays in coach Frank Welch’s powerhouse program.

When Ryan announced that he would be taking his talents to the United States Military Academy at West Point, he made a lot of people proud.

After graduating from Ithaca High in 2018, Ryan did a post-graduate “prep” year at West Point, a path followed by a large percentage of Army athletes, and one

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Sposito found very helpful both academically and athletically.

This Saturday, Sposito and his teammates will host the University of Massachusetts in the season opener. I asked Ryan if Feb. 12 was an early start date for a Division I lacrosse program, and he told me, “While the Ivy League doesn’t start their practices until Feb. 1, we have been at it since Jan. 10. We’ll be ready.”

The Black Knights are members of the Patriot League, and Sposito said, “The Patriot League consists of Loyola, Bucknell, Lehigh, Lafayette, Colgate and Holy Cross,” and when asked if the team was pleased with its #10 preseason ranking, he replied, “Yes, but many of those teams are highly ranked too,” implying that what happens on the field is what will ultimately matter.

I asked Sposito to describe the biggest difference between high school and DI lacrosse, and he offered, “The biggest difference is that in practice, you can’t really look for a guy and say, ‘I can win this matchup for sure.’ The game speeds up a ton. Everyone is at the same level, they’re all there for the same reason, all competing for the same thing, and that is playing time.” He explained that there are three rotating midfield lines, and he said, “I see myself on the second line, but the reality is that whoever plays the best in practice will play on Saturday.”

Asked what it will be like to step onto Schoellkopf Field, Ryan said, “It will be surreal. I have been going there since I was a child, but I have never played a game there.”

Asked if there are any other games he looks forward to more than others, he said, “The Syracuse game, for sure. I have also been going to the Dome since I was a kid, so that will feel like a hometown game.” He laughed and added, “That, plus my hatred for Syracuse!” More on that to come...

I asked Sposito what his post-West Point plans might be, and while he is clearly locked in on the upcoming season (and next season), he explained that West Point grads owe the Army three years of active duty and two years of reserve duty.

They get to choose assignments based on class rank, and it made me laugh that a young man raised in upstate New York would mention assignments in Texas, North Carolina and Georgia. Snow shoveling is not your thing, Ryan?

As for Ryan’s countless trips to Schoellkopf Field, his disdain for Syracuse and his description of his upcoming game against Cornell as “surreal,” most local lacrosse fans already know why. While his last name is Sposito, Ryan’s mother’s maiden name is Moran. Jennifer’s father is three-time national champion, Hall of Fame coach Richie Moran. That’s right, Ryan is lacrosse royalty in Ithaca, whether he likes it or not, but when his team comes to Ithaca in April, he’ll be playing to win.

He knows of no other way to play.

‘A CENTURY OF SWINDLES’

Local writer exposes the schemes and cons of the 1850s-1950s in her latest book.

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ailey Jane Savage found herself immersed in the hustle and bustle, violence, and faith of the Gilded Age fraud scene while writing her new book, “A Century of Swindles: Ponzi Schemes, Con Men and Fraudsters.” The book captures the creative ways fraudsters took advantage of people during an era of economic growth and political corruption.

Back in 2019 when Lyons Press asked for her next book idea, Savage wasn’t sure

what story she wanted to tell. She had many thoughts but was lacking the motivation to write any of them. At the time, she was really struggling with her clinical depression, something she’s happily open about.

“One way to destigmatize various taboos about mental illness is to talk about these things,” Savage said. “This is me, using my words to claim my space in the world.”

Seeking motivation, Savage reverted back to one of her favorite coping strategies — giving herself the space to relax by watching movies.

“While lying in bed one day, trying not to be so sad, I revisited one of my go-to movies, ‘Paper Moon,’” she said. “It’s a film that documents tricks and cons, as well as a bit of ingenuity. I couldn’t help but wonder why I kept coming back to it, but the central reason was an interest in people using their skills in nefarious ways.”

Suddenly, Savage had the premise of her story. She turned to her research and quickly found that it would be no easy task. There was

an endless amount of information and she knew that narrowing down the stories would be difficult. But she was up for the challenge.

She started by choosing a time period to focus on. She says that she wanted to avoid the digital age because writing about present-day scheming would run the risk of lawsuits. She eventually settled on covering the American con scene between the 1850s and 1950s because her research revealed that this history was largely lost.

“When researching something that hasn’t been written about at length, you have to do a lot of the research before you start writing,” Savage said. “You’re never really sure where the story’s going to go or whether or not there’s enough for a story unless you put in the work ahead of time.”

Savage primarily used online newspaper databases to gather material for her book.

She found herself falling down endless rabbit holes, thinking she found the perfect story to include until a small detail of another caught her eye, encouraging her to extend her research further.

“There’s more knowledge out there than you’d expect,” she said. “However, a lot of the newspapers available online have literally just been scanned, which means that they’re often hard to read. It felt archeological to embark on, which ended up being quite entertaining.”

A lot of Savage’s time was dedicated to transcribing old newspaper fonts. She says, though tedious, the process was rewarding because it gave a more complete picture of an unknown history.

“I was so enamored by what these people did and how other people reacted to them, and yet, they were lost to time,” Savage said.

“Instead of dwelling on why these stories were lost, I wanted to present them anew. I really took the time to study their history and become well-versed on their stories.”

At the end of her research, the list of cons that Savage had compiled was twice as long as what she could include. She says that she wanted to represent groups of con artists of all kinds, including the conscious ones, the mentally ill, men, and women, but she had her work cut out for her.

Staying motivated for a project as large as “A Century of Swindles” wasn’t that difficult for Savage, who finds joy in the fact that she never got tired of the content. But the importance of sharing these stories with the world never got lost on her.

“Because there are a number of chapters that touch on concepts and practices that are still at work today, it felt relevant to write with intent,” Savage said. “All of the connections that could potentially be made to contemporary culture were so obvious to me, which made it feel that much weightier to keep going.”

When she eventually started narrowing down her list of cons, she focused in on what was available to her.

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‘Who We Are’

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hatever perspectives one may have on how best we, as a society and as individuals, can address the continuing problems of rac-

ism, as well as the intrinsic inequalities arising from a history characterized by far too many examples of that trait, “Who We

Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America” succeeds in providing valuable insights.

This extraordinary documentary is effectively directed and edited by Sarah and Emily Kunstler, and insightfully narrated by Jeffrey Robinson, who grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, and studied hard enough to get into Harvard Law School.

Eventually he became deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. His concern for most of the people he interviews is evident.

For example, his conversation with Gwen Carr, Eric Garner’s mother, is very touching. Robinson asked Carr how she’d like her son to be remembered. “Like a sacrificial lamb” whose name will live forever, she replied. (Readers will recall that

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ACLU attorney Jeffery Robinson in Who We Are, a talkk on the deep roots of white supremacy in American history.

Garner was choked to death by a police officer during a disagreement with several officers over selling single cigarettes on the street.)

Using vintage footage, the film also provides reflective insight into the devastating firebombing of the minority community in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area, which had been known as “The Black Wall Street.” Using rented airplanes, racists dropped burning tar on Black-owned homes and buildings, wreaking havoc and killing many residents of the Greenwood community in the early 1920s.

Looking at the career of Francis Scott Key, who wrote “The Star Spangled Banner,” Robinson notes that this poet was also a prosecutor in the Washington, D.C. area. At one point he sought the death penalty for an abolitionist who’d been accused of aiding enslaved people in the process of escaping.

On a related note, Robinson contends that the monuments to and statues of military and political figures of the old South are, basically, paying tribute to those who were involved in or acting in support of the killing of American (i.e. Union) soldiers.

If I may be permitted to close with an example of how I had a relevant experience of that “monument-related” virulence when I was involved in organizing an Ithaca visit for James Perkins Jr., the first Black mayor of Selma. Shortly after coming into office, Perkins was informed that the Klan had undertaken the development of a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest,a Confederate Army general and the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. As one might expect, Mayor Perkins took a stance against the erection of the statue. This precipitated death threats, delivered to Perkins by persons describing themselves as Klansmen. This prompted the mayor to add two armed bodyguards to his staff. They were very congenial fellows, with whom I had a nice conversation as we sat in the back seat of a van which then Cornell University Vice Provost Robert Harris drove from Hancock Airport to South Hill, the night before the mayor’s presentations.

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Each year, millions of elderly Americans fall victim to some type of financial fraud, and it continues to be a growing problem. Seniors are often targeted because they tend to be trusting and polite, usually have financial savings, own a home, and have good credit, all of which makes them attractive to scammers. Criminals posing as interested romantic partners, sweepstakes or lottery scams, home repair scams, family or caregiver theft, and fraud are common schemes. As a form of protection, older adults need to keep their families and caregivers informed if they have been pressured by someone selling door-to-door, receiving incessant unsolicited phone calls, or asked to give

he burgeoning “Escape Room” franchise will never be mentioned at any awards ceremony, but I must say, I’m awfully fond of these two movies. For my money, Adam Robitel’s “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions” (2021) really ups the mythology of the series, coming up with more four-walled puzzles for the returning cast, and surprise cameos from past cast members.

I also appreciate that the “Escape Room” movies are rated PG-13, so it’s not about gratuitous splatter and gore and more about solving intricate, devious mind-scramblers. This time around, I particularly enjoyed the street-themed escape room, with specifically timed bursts of (literal) acid rain, and a harrowing puzzle piece set in a subway car.

2021 was the year that I finally got Zack Snyder as a filmmaker. I’ll be the first to admit that Snyder is a peerless visual stylist, but I’ve found it hard to warm up to Snyder joints like “300” and “Sucker Punch.” Last year, I really found myself responding to the four-hour “Justice League

Zack Snyder Cut,” which was indeed superior to the “Justice League” that was released to theaters in 2017.

Snyder’s first flick was his 2004 reimagining of George A. Romero’s 1979 horror classic “Dawn of the Dead,” so Snyder has had a lot of time to think up some new wrinkles within the zombie genre for Netflix’s “Army of the Dead” (2021). Dave Bautista leads a large ensemble of criminal types set on robbing a casino vault after a world-wide zombie epidemic has taken down Las Vegas. Sort of an action-horror hybrid inspired by “Ocean’s Eleven,” this is Snyder’s version of a romp; I’m a bit weary of all the zombies in pop culture, but Snyder does find several new twists on this well-worn genre, and I wouldn’t want to spoil them here.

Everyone’s game to play here, but it must be said that by underplaying her trademark deadpan delivery, comedian Tig Notaro pretty well steals the show without ever breaking a sweat.

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to write a chapter that didn’t have an end,” she said.

She also eliminated many of the stories that were graphic or violent in nature. The grave-robbing and decapitation behind the story of Dr. Blood were some of the only gruesome themes that she included, she says, solely because of the allure of his schemes.

Savage wrote and structured “A Century of Swindles” in a way that she believed would resonate with readers.

She hopes that her engagement with the material and her characters keeps readers

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moving through the book and connected to the content.

Above all else, she wants readers to finish the book having fully grasped her main thesis: If something feels too good to be true, it probably is.

“If you engage with someone who is offering something that makes you skeptical, but your response is how much will I get?

You’ve already lost,” Savage said. “You’ve already engaged in a way that gives the scammer credibility. This means that victims end up giving away things that were not for sale in the first place.”

Savage says that she feels as though many Americans have yet to learn this lesson. She encourages readers to challenge

this flaw by being critical in their thought, analysis and self-assessment.

Savage comes from a long line of writers in the Ithaca area and feels proud to have debuted “A Century of Swindles” here. While she currently resides in Ludlowville, New York, she cherishes having access to Ithaca’s artistic community.

“It’s at once dynamic and organic to be a writer around here,” Savage said. “You get to learn about other people’s work and there are many different venues to show your stuff. I think that’s a real opportunity because if you go to a larger city, the stakes might feel higher. Here it seems supportive in a way that I have found to be unique.”

Referring to herself as a writer is still new for Savage, but she’s eager to explore

what that identity means to her. She says that she started carrying index cards around because one evocative thought or idea can spark the premise for an entire novel and that motivates her to always anticipate inspiration.

“Take ‘A Century of Swindles’ for example,” she said. “It all started because I couldn’t shake myself of the word ‘con.’”

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Playful titles like “Under the Influence” and “Separation Anxiety” abound.

Conroy’s work in yarn here encompasses small, wall-mounted pieces and larger freely suspended works, as well as a series of dresses exhibited on a small grouping of mannequins. I cannot bring to this work the kind of technical knowledge that I do with regards to drawing and painting but it is evident that her expertise and range here are large.

It is in her freely suspended, hand-knit works that Conroy most forcefully engages a dialogue with her pieces on paper. Each see-through piece incorporates — an analogy to the body is irresistible — a variety of densities and textures, the latter recalling an abstract handwriting.

A pair of “Stitch Notation” hangings exemplify this beautifully. In one, a diaphanous white background sets off horizontal cursive lines in black, crimson, pale pink and green, red-orange, blue-gray, and brighter white. A taller piece, featuring a regular pattern of densely looped horizontal rows, starts out all white at the top and becomes heavier as the eye travels downwards, with darkening gradations of red-to-purple.

Her digitally fabricated pieces here fit more comfortably in the “design” box, with their impersonal facture and schematic or uninflected color. The most engaging of these incorporate elaborate geometric structures that bend and distort unpredictably. One untitled free-hanging, in a solidmagenta unlike anything else here, is richly sculptural.

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