Democracy can move at a glacial pace, and sometimes that serves us well. Except that glaciers no longer move at a glacial pace. If you care about what’s happening to the global climate, and you look at what’s happening in Washington, or what’s not happening in Washington, you have good reason to worry.

And the woman who pioneered computer modeling of a shrinking glacier lives right here in Central New York. Myrna Hall, of Jamesville, is a research associate in the Department of Environmental Studies at the State University College of Environmental Science and Forestry, where she directs the Center for the Urban Environment.

Try the film Chasing Ice, which is coming to Syracuse just in time for Earth Day. If nothing else, you will both agree that the 75-minute film tracking extreme wilderness photographer James Balog’s mission to record the demise of glaciers is a feast for the eyes.

Everyone knows that Central New York is the epicenter of college lacrosse. Going into the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four, you could make also make a strong case that Syracuse had become the geo

Final Four frenzy is usually a pretty frothy affair. Beer ads punctuate the games broadcast on television. Sports bars fill up with fanatic Orange fans.Even newspaper coverage highlights the bar scene

To the list of state officials either accused or convicted of criminal acts, add the name of Malcolm Smith, the state senator from Queens who a few years back was briefly the majority leader and president pro tem of the Senate. Since December, he has been a partner of our own state Sen.

Like Allende, who nationalized the Chilean copper industry in the early 1970s, Chavez sought greater state control of Venezuela’s rich oil fields. Like Arbenz in Guatemala, he stepped on the toes of powerful landed interests, many of them linked to the United States.

Peter Waack lives in an ultra-modern energy-efficient house on the Near West Side, but when it comes to his news, he is a traditionalist who likes to turn pages and get ink on his hands. When he learned that the Scotsman Press was ending publication of its 18 Pennysaver publications, it bothered him.

You can’t live in fear, but no doubt we are all living a bit more fearfully today, holding the children just a bit closer, looking both ways before venturing out in the dark.

 Perhaps the thought of the awful tidings of the Orange’s 22-point loss in the final Big East game against Georgetown was too painful to bear.Maybe the thought of a 50-degree day in March le