Kayla McKeon might not look like a high-powered Washington insider, but she’s getting things done on the Hill. Kayla, a Cicero native, is the first registered lobbyist with Down syndrome. As the manager of grassroots advocacy at the National Down...
Year: 2019
Features, Food
Syracuse Eats: Sugar & Co.
By Gabrielle Reagan Just around the corner from the Landmark theatre, nestled between a celebrated tattoo shop and store fronts along West Fayette Street, sits an intimate dessert and wine bar now celebrating its second birthday. Don’t panic, there is...
Causes, Cover Story, Featured, Features, Special Feature
COVER STORY: Building a Foundation: Syracuse Habitat for Humanity Women Build
Even as a child, Rina Di Francesco understood the importance of having a home of one’s own. “My parents immigrated over from Italy with no money in their pockets, a couple of dollars,” Rina recalled. “But they worked hard, they...
Causes, Featured, Features, Health, Special Feature
SPECIAL FEATURE: A style for every story
At the New York State Fair last year, Frieda Weeks was approached by a woman who told her the kind of news she loves to hear. “She was a woman of the cloth and she said, ‘I want you to...
From the editor
FROM THE EDITOR: Uppity women, unite
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.” I’m sure you’ve heard that before. It’s often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt or Marilyn Monroe, but it actually comes from a 1976 article on Puritan funeral services written by historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. I guess...
