The Ithaca Voice is a nonprofit digital news site with a mission to improve civic and political understanding in Ithaca and Tompkins County by publishing and sustaining in-depth, educational, rigorous, timely, and ethical journalism that all residents can access online free of charge. We want to be the leading media platform that informs, connects, and engages the people of Ithaca with trusted news, information, and commentary. We want to help build a better informed, better educated, and more prosperous community, an Ithaca that our children and people from elsewhere see as a great place to live, work and play. As an independent news organization, we have no editorial obstacles in the pursuit of the truth, just authentic and factual reporting and analysis, full of humanity and on the side of justice.