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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · 15d

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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · 15d

Apparently this No Kings rally in Albany stretches 2.5 miles.

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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · 19d

It's a difficult housing market, but Ithaca's Collegetown is still a solid investment. Just filed, an $18,248,000 construction loan from Five Star Bank for a 46-unit, 88-bed apartment building at 201 Oak Avenue. Modern Living Rentals is the dev, Bella Faccia Cons. is the builder.

Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · Aug 6

The incumbent D had a debilitating stroke and the party did their best to hide to hide her for six months "Weekend at Bernie's" style.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · May 18

Came back to Ithaca to attend commencement and cheer for two of my former students, both international. I’m the only guest in my Airbnb, normally packed. “Foreign families didn’t come this year.” 1/

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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · Apr 2

403 E. State, now known as "Theory Ithaca". 371 units, 518 beds. Marketed as grad/professional housing. $107 million construction loan, Aug 2027 completion.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Feb 27

Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

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14850 Magazine @14850.com · Feb 19

A new restaurant is coming soon where Agava used to be on Ithaca’s east hill. www.14850.com/021840074-bg...

A new restaurant is coming soon where Agava used to be on Ithaca's east hill • 14850 Dining

When Agava Restaurant closed in December 2022, it was just for several weeks, or at least that was the plan. The restaurant would reopen in early 2023, refreshed and ready to go. Unfortunately, it was...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Feb 16

most journalists today can be divided into two groups: dedicated, impoverished people who mostly write for publications you've never heard of that started eighteen months ago or JP Random House The First, who writes columns for the New York Times about which ethnic groups it should be OK to hunt

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · Feb 16

an important thing about america's current media elites is that they're basically just the dregs of an industry that has been constant contraction since the 90s and thus a lot of them are nepobabies who don't actually want to do any work

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · Feb 16

Checked this story about Trump shaking Ukraine down in exchange for continuing military aid to see if it mentions that he got impeached for doing that exact thing, and friends, you will not be surprised that it does not.

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WIRED @wired.com · Feb 16

Anytime a storm is brewing, your local forecasters are getting the latest data from NOAA. As the agency faces an uncertain future, one thing's for sure: for-profit companies would struggle to replicate NOAA's weather-forecasting prowess.

For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess

Replicating the abilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s fleet of weather satellites would take time and a lot of money—and expose private companies to a large amount of…

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Paul Houle @up-8.bsky.social · Feb 15

I don't know how much they've got left to do inside, but the facade is shaping up for the new building for Cornell's Computer Science Department

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A long horizontal image of a building with whose top an bottom make V-shapes because the middle is further from the camera with blueish windows with vertical stripes between them that are brown where panels have been installed and white where they aren't. Above find grey sky, below find a snowy area with orange cranes and port-a-potties, to the left you can see a bit of a building where the windows are bluish and separated by horizontal brown stripes

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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · Feb 8

This should be a five-alarm fire for Weill Cornell and for the biomed/bio eng departments at Cornell. These cuts would essentially wipe out the programs.

Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Feb 8

Excellent 🧵 on this evening's NIH announcement of a dramatic reduction in indirect rates for research institutions, which amounts to a generational restructuring of the US research and development ecosystem. These cuts are effective immediately, not just for new grants but for existing ones.

Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 8

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance.

For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · Feb 3

About 213 of 480 acres.

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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · Feb 2

Sold for $2,006,020 on Friday - former Bell Station acreage Finger Lakes Land Trust to a solar company out of Utah. It might ruffle some feathers, but taking the former farmland and selling it for a solar facility had always been part of the plan. ithacavoice.org/2022/05/fing...

Finger Lakes Land Trust acquires Bell Station shoreline property - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y.—The Finger Lakes Land Trust announced that it has purchased the 480-acre Bell Station property that features 3,400 feet of shoreline along Cayuga Lake from New York State Electric […]

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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · Jan 30

“There is not sufficient community support for the project for us to take on the financial risk of going forward.”

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Mixed-use project for Inlet Island terminated, site's future now unclear - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y. — Plans for a mixed-use project on the land of a city-owned parking lot have come to an end. Finger Lakes Development, led by local developers Jeffrey Rimland […]

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Judy Lucas @judylucas.bsky.social · Jan 30

Pictures shared on a community Facebook group of what eye witnesses assume are ICE agents outside the Tompkins County Department of Social Services. Taken ~ 1 hr. ago.

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Judy Lucas @judylucas.bsky.social · Jan 30

We're getting reports of ICE agents spotted in Tompkins County and the Ithaca area, specifically in Dryden and at the Asteri housing complex on Green Street in downtown Ithaca.
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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · Jan 23

Cornell received about $319 million in NIH grants at its Weill College of Medicine in 2023, and that's not even in the top 20 for schools. This move by the new admin would have a devastating impact on health research.

Jane Liebschutz, MD MPH (she/her) @liebschutz.bsky.social · Jan 22

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

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Judy Lucas @judylucas.bsky.social · Jan 22

A petition launched yesterday calling on Cornell University to help keep Ithaca's Museum of the Earth from foreclosing has over 1,300 sigs. Its financial woes intensified after a group of once reliable donors couldn't fulfil a $30M pledge-via:@ithacavoice.bsky.social.
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Sign the Petition

Save the Museum of the Earth from Imminent Closure

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Maddy Vogel @maddyvogel.bsky.social · Jan 16

Following the sharp increase in property assessments last year, Tompkins County’s Office of Assessment is expected to halt reassessments on most homes in 2025 as the local real estate market faces its weakest sales in over a decade.

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The Ithaca Times @ithacatimes.bsky.social · Jan 16

Tompkins County Expected to Pause Property Assessments as Home Sales Decline

Following the sharp increase in property assessments last year, Tompkins County’s Office of Assessment is expected to halt reassessments on most homes in 2025 as the local real estate market

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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · Jan 15

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Industrial Development Agency rejects downtown project's foreclosure modification request - The Ithaca Voice

ITHACA, N.Y. — The developer of a large residential project on the east end of downtown Ithaca was dealt a setback last week when the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency […]

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Jeanne Timmons @mostlymammoths.bsky.social · Jan 14

This is terrible news. 🧪

"The Museum of the Earth, one of the last natural history museums in Upstate New York, faces an imminent threat of foreclosure after a group of donors failed to fulfill a $30 million pledge..." @judylucas.bsky.social

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Picture of the Hyde Park mastodon, I think. Image is facing the front side of the mastodon; its tusks loom large. It stands in front of blue backgrounds.

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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · Jan 12

Some I've built, some are from garage and estate sales (especially the greenery and vehicles). I started doing this back in college, so over 15 years.

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Brian Crandall @bcrandall.bsky.social · Jan 11

Maybe it's because of what I do. Maybe it's because I have weird hobbies. But this is my basement. And it follows good urban planning.

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