Ithaca Tag
Shut the Smug Up
on February 15, 2014
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Spotted by The Wife in Ithaca. (No, she did not key the car, but she thought about it.)...
Forget deer birth control, State opens special hunting season in Ithaca area
on January 15, 2014
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On Monday I wrote how the Village of Cayuga Heights, bordering the Cornell University campus and the City of Ithaca, has spent $2,984 per deer in a sterilization program which had no hope of reducing the deer population to an environmentally safe level.
A reader just emailed me with a press release issued this morning by the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation declaring war on deer in the central Tompkins County area in and around Ithaca:
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation sent this bulletin on 01/15/2014 12:59 PM ESTHello, The NYS Department of Environmental Conservation has issued the following press release:
Special Deer Hunting Season in Central Tompkins County to Help Control Local Deer Population
Deer Management Focus Area Open Until January 31, 2014
A special deer hunting season to help control the deer population in and around the city of Ithaca, Tompkins County, will be open until January 31, 2014, State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Regional Director Ken Lynch announced today. The Deer Management Focus Area (DMFA) program was initiated in 2012 in the Ithaca area to expand the use of hunting to assist local communities burdened with overabundant deer populations. The DMFA encompasses 60,000 acres of land in and around the city of Ithaca, including the city and town of Ithaca, the villages of Cayuga Heights and Lansing, and parts of the towns of Danby, Caroline, Dryden, Lansing, Enfield, Newfield and Ulysses.
NY Town spends $2,984 per deer in sterilization program
on January 13, 2014
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We have written before about the deer sterilization program in Cayuga Heights, which borders the Cornell campus (most people think of it as Ithaca, but it's actually a separate municipality).
Because Reproductive Health Care Is A Cervine Right:
I have written before about the moral angst sweeping the upscale Village of Cayuga Heights, bordering the Cornell campus and home to a large number of professors and staff, over how to control the out-of-control deer population. After years of debate, which tore the community apart, Cayuga Heights has come up with a solution:How did it work out? The Ithaca Journal reports, Cayuga Heights spends $35K to sterilize 12 does:The board of trustees passed a resolution Monday night to begin implementation of the phased options approach to deer management. The village will begin with the surgical sterilization of 20-60 does within a two-year period, followed by the culling of the remainder of the herd.The cost per sterilization? Don’t ask:The first phase of sterilization is estimated to take two years at an average cost of $1,200 per doe, according to the statement.If they do for our health care system what they’ve done for the deer of Cayuga Heights, we’re sunk.
Crisis averted
on January 12, 2014
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Cascadilla Creek, not far from my home in Ithaca, carries water from one of the main gorges that cuts through campus high above to Cayuga Lake. But to get there, it travels through my neighborhood. Normally flooding is not a problem. Except when the creek freezes over and...
Everything is a whole lot worse now
on November 30, 2013
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Voting for Obama "despite everything" was enough to get him through 2012. Spotted in Ithaca at the Wegmans shopping center....
She’s got it all
on November 19, 2013
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Spotted in Ithaca. The sticker on the right, partially removed, says "Shut Vermont Yankee Now," in reference to the nuclear power plant. She's about to get her way, that is, if they can figure out how to shut it down....
Poking them in the eye
on October 09, 2013
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This group of Tea Party supporters in Ithaca decided to carry signs outside Republican Tom Reed's office, which must have felt like a poke in the eye to most Ithacans. Hey, poking Ithaca in the eye is my job! Ed writes: A couple of pictures of the Ithaca Tea...
This ain’t your Grandhippie’s Ithaca
on August 05, 2013
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If I had not received this from a highly reliable source, I never would have believed this was seen in Ithaca. From someone whose identity is being held so secret I had to black out his reflection on the chrome trim, came this photo and note: I enviously...
When Obama’s lost the Ithaca sign people
on July 01, 2013
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There's a pedestrian triangle on Route 13 in Ithaca where people gather to hold signs. These were spotted this weekend by my wife: ...
Old School
on June 03, 2013
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Back in Ithaca this past weekend. Spotted a few blocks from my house. ...
Volvo Ballet
on June 02, 2013
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It's great to be back in Ithaca for the weekend. It's The Ithaca Festival, which is similar to the full moon. I'm kinda upset I missed the Volvo Ballet this year: ...
Oh yeah, you’re the bad girl
on May 08, 2013
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Hot rodding around Ithaca in your Toyota Sienna LE minivan. Breaking all the rules! You'll make history, alright. A certain little bad boy is waiting for you....
In Ithaca but not of Ithaca
on February 26, 2013
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Spotted at the Wal-Mart on Route 13. Probably lives outside the 10 square miles, in the reality part. ...
Sequester — already the biggest lie of 2013
on February 21, 2013
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On the very short drive to work this morning, I heard an interview on local AM 870 radio with the Tompkins County town administrator. The radio host kept trying to scare everyone about the Sequester cuts, repeatedly asking how it would affect people in Tompkins County. The...
