It isn’t illegal to hunt whales with a harpoon gun in the city of Syracuse, but it could be. The whale population worldwide is endangered, and statutes to preserve the existing herd against the world’s thirst for whale oil and blubber are certainly welcome.

Two guys walk into a bar. Except one of them isn’t a guy. She’s a woman. Or let’s say they walk into a restaurant, or a cell phone store, or their favorite combination vegan pierogie outlet and cigar bar. Doesn’t matter.

Did anyone else notice that as soon as the city announced it would ease enforcement of parking regulations by offering a 10-minute grace period after the meter runs out, that dozens of protesters immediately flocked to downtown to set up camp in...

The Benderson Center, 205 S. Salina St., has been serving as a gathering place for seniors for nearly four decades. Mayor Stephanie Miner announced last month that the center would close on Oct. 1 to save the city the $10,000 monthly rent.

There’s a lot of talk lately about the New York City-Syracuse connection, most of it having to do with Syracuse University football maybe playing more games in the Meadowlands and the Orangemen hoops squad playing home games at Madison Square Garden.

After 10 years of commemorating the 9/11 attacks at sporting events, it is time to lay that custom to rest. Born of an instinct to maintain national unity in a time of threat and a desire to honor the memories of those we lost, it has morphed into a forum for the praise of militarism, and as such it serves us no longer.

Sept. 12 seemed to go on forever. It was the first day of many spent staring at smoke. And smoke, like running water, is something you can’t ever really see. The eye tries to hold on to the image, but, in an instant, it’s gone. On that day, Sept.

Four hours and change from Clinton Square, absent traffic, you can take a brief but scenic tram ride over the East River and disembark on Roosevelt Island, a sliver of land stuck between Queens and Manhattan. Roosevelt Island is a city within the City.

Politics makes strange bedfellows, and this season none other than Ann Marie Buerkle and the Syracuse Peace Council have crawled into the same sack, this time on the right side of the question of the war in Libya.