Students were three-deep at a Pet-a- Puppy event on campus, hosted by the Guiding Eyes for the Blind.

Students were three-deep at a Pet-a- Puppy event on campus, hosted by the Guiding Eyes for the Blind.

By Nicole Cisneros McKeen

Svante Myrick was getting a ride home from Rob Flaherty ’13 after a meeting when he told the Ithaca Col­lege junior that he was thinking of running for mayor of Ithaca.

Flaherty was one of the first people Myrick had told. Once the campaign started, Flaherty quickly went from registering students on South Hill to acting as the...

By Nicole Cisneros McKeen

In his decade at the highest level in American politics, political consultant John Balduzzi ’01 has learned there is one overriding factor that makes a successful candidate.

First and foremost, the candidate needs to be a nice person. “Charac­ter is key,” says Balduzzi, who serves as president of The Balduzzi Group, dividing his...

By Nicole Cisneros McKeen

When it comes to political ideas, you might think of Rob Bluey ’01 as the man behind the curtain. But he’s no Wizard of Oz. And he isn’t a backroom machine politician, party bigwig, or wheeler-dealer.

Bluey is the director of the Center for Media and Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation, an independent, conservative think tank in...