The health hazards of tobacco smoking are indisputable and we are glad to see the city of Cortland is considering a law to help keep kids from smoking. The city is considering restricting …
A couple of dozen county and local officials raised their right hands Dec. 28 in the main courtroom of the Cortland County Courthouse to take their oaths of office as they prepared to begin their …
To the Editor: The number of tobacco retail stores in a community is linked to increased smoking rates, increased smoking-related death and disease outcomes, and the normalization of tobacco …
To the Editor: It is weird that the terms slim chance and fat chance mean the same thing. Why doesn’t SUNY Cortland run a bus to and from Main Street in Cortland? If tomatoes are …
One doesn’t have to squint hard to see how scheduling local elections in odd-numbered years can be interpreted as a means of voter suppression. Think this out: Even-numbered years feature …
The new year offers us a symbolic reset button, an opportunity to reflect on ways we may have gone astray over the past year, or merely ways we’d like to improve ourselves. Whether you call it …
To the Editor: Are we headed for round two of the fracking fight? Clean Energy Solutions Company is leasing lands in Broome, Tioga, and Chemung counties. Touting a new, untested method of …
To the Editor: My Oct. 6 Cortland Standard letter entitled “Beware ‘hoax’ climate solutions” outlined a technology called “carbon capture and sequestration” (CCS), invented by Big Oil, …
Standing on the rooftop and extolling the increase in the minimum wage to $15 as either the greatest advance in labor rights since the 40-hour work week or the greatest threat to unfettered …
It takes a village to raise a child, we’ve often read. In Dryden, the business community has come together to raise the village, in the form of the Dryden Business Association. In March …
It stinks. We know. Nobody likes it but here we are. The number of cases of COVID-19 and influenza are climbing again in Cortland County. It was expected, as people gathered with family and …
Governments have gone crazy. New York state is looking to possibly pass a law making it mandatory for any restaurant operating on the thruway system …
The quality of school lunches is often a punchline — although we suspect many kids aren’t laughing along. That’s not the fault of cafeteria workers, but rather limited funding, federal …
To the Editor: The article that appeared April 18 reported that there are 40 homeless people in Cortland. I understand the only shelter (one single room), at the Salvation Army (back …
Tax breaks arranged by the Cortland County Industrial Development Agency helped to create or retain 387 jobs this year, which does not include 350 that iSpice announced for the former Voyant factory …
To the Editor: This is a response to a letter written by Ruth Lewis. When I read your letter, I reacted to your situation since I was there until a kind friend reached out to help me. Since …
Editor’s note: The following editorial written by Francis P. Church first appeared in The New York Sun in 1897. It …
We’re rooting for the little bit of snow still clinging to the ground, but the outlook for a white Christmas this year isn’t promising. From Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” to …
To the Editor: Thanks to the Cortland Standard for its extensive coverage of the recent COP28 Climate Conference. After weeks of heated confrontation and debates a consensus statement was …
To the Editor: While Donald Trump continues to recite, in a kind of mangled paraphrase, passages from ‘Mein Kampf’ at his rallies, we hear that he is becoming even more popular. So was the …
To the Editor: Saturday Night Live had a skit some years ago that distinguished “funny ha ha” from “funny strange.” Saturday’s cartoon in the Cortland Standard Opinion page would fit …
For the past five years, the state has been pressing municipalities to create plans to share services in an effort to create more efficient governments and save taxpayer dollars. As an incentive, the …
To the Editor: In 2006 I was diagnosed with post surgical Hypoparathyroidism. Due to this I must be medicated daily as my body does not produce enough calcium. Throughout the years I began …
Landlords have a responsibility to provide safe properties for their tenants. Yet, more than 50 years after New York banned lead-based paints, nearly 60% of homes with high lead levels in Cortland …
To the Editor: I am sure by now most of you have seen the expansion of those solar installations around the county. So my questions are as follows: Has anyone seen a reduction in their …
