Syracuse Speaks

Summer in Central New York was a bit lackluster in 2020. 2021 could prove to be quite different, Katie Zilcosky and Tarryn Mento discuss it on Syracuse Speaks.

For over a year, we have been witnessing and processing a global pandemic, political upheaval, and police violence against communities of color. Any of…

Many health and government leaders are putting enormous effort into ramping up vaccination against COVID 19. Most of us probably know someone who’s…

WAER’s staff of reporters has been covering the election through the COVID-19 pandemic, the fight for racial justice, and the fiscal challenges on local…

The covid-19 pandemic has upended many aspects of our community, and childcare schedules and norms are one of them. Providers are struggling to stay…

The 2020 Primary in New York this year fell in the midst of a global pandemic and a reckoning on police brutality in America. Voting by mail occurred in…

Syracuse like many other communities across the U.S. has been a scene for large, emotional and diverse protests over police treatment of people of color.…

Many parts of society have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, and education has not been spared. Schools faced closures, then ascrambled to find ways…

Online and other remote learning have become the norm for Central New York students from elementary school all the way through college. Will it have a…

Life for Central New Yorkers in the age of COVID-19 has forced many members of the community, local businesses and nonprofits to readjust their priorities…