Lazarus Sims hit the floor at half court last Sunday, April 14, in the Southwest Community Center gym. For a few scary minutes, he lay motionless, a seeming redux of Kobe Bryant’s NBA season-ending spill last week.

Recently appointed executive director of the YWCA of Syracuse and Onondaga County, Fanny Villarreal found herself in a significant leadership role at an early age. Living down the street from an insurgent presidential candidate in her native Peru, she joined his campaign, and when he won, he appointed her to a post in the judiciary.

After 26 years at the helm of the Southwest Community Center (SWCC), Jesse Dowdell is stepping down at the end of April. “We’re ready for change,” he observes, maintaining that the

Khalid Bey remembers Benn’s Kitchen. Now a common councilor representing the Fourth District, which contained both the East Washington Street and later South Salina Street locations of the

 With television screens and daily newspaper pages flashing the faces of candidates, charging and counter-charging semantics and quoting dollar figures the average voter can’t comprehend

Chimes from City Hall and the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception—the municipal a touch ahead of the church—coincided with a scheduled picket line at City Hall on Sept. 17 to mark the fir