Ron Lagoe, Cierra Wright, Kathleen Kelley, Jaqueline Spears, Jay Koch (Annie Knox)
“We don’t have any industry left. Syracuse is going nowhere. The population’s declining. I have three kids and none of them are here.”
(Ron Lagoe, 62, of Camillus, executive director, Hospital Executive Council, unaffiliated with a political party)
“They don’t be having no buses for young kids. Some people, parents don’t have a car. They have to go downtown, then catch that bus to drop their baby off to school, then from there go back downtown, and catch the bus to work. That’s too much. They need to have buses for these kids.”
(Cierra Wright, 24, of the South Side of Syracuse, food service worker, Rosewood Heights nursing home, unaffiliated with a political party)
“Better medicine for everybody. The middle class are getting too much income but not enough income for healthcare. They’re falling through the cracks. They’re working, but they can’t afford healthcare. So then one hospitalization wipes them out.”
(Kathleen Kelley, 51, of Marcellus, registered nurse, Crouse Hospital, Republican)
“Education at the local level. Esteeming teachers more, giving them a little bit more freedom within the classrooms. Allowing them more input of what is going on within that school system. And not allowing as many cutbacks.”
(Jaqueline Spears, described herself as 50-plus, of the East Side of Syracuse, administrator at Syracuse University, Democrat)
“Quite frankly, every one of these cars that you see here in this parking lot could be electric or on fuel cells, and it could’ve been done 25 years ago and we wouldn’t be in the problem that we are today because of fuel.”
(Jay Koch, 52, of Cicero, delivery person, Frito-Lay, Republican)
(Annie Knox is a senior majoring in newspaper journalism and French.)
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