Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/2019/08/page/2/)
For the last decade, the Rochester Speculative Literature Association has nurtured visions of the city’s future. Its members—whose works span fantasy, science fiction and horror fiction—write stories about Rochester that ask “what if?”
Why put at risk the substantial income and tens of thousands of local jobs that global trade generates in the Rochester region?
The visual art community in Rochester is launching Current Seen, a small-and-midsize venue biennial designed as a contiguous string of exhibitions, pop-ups, and public art along East Avenue and Main Street downtown. The program’s theme: our current moment/our changing city.
Newspapers first ventured online almost a quarter-century ago. Why are nearly all still struggling to find a digital news model that works—and can the merged Gannett-New Media operations crack the code?
UR researchers have found that like concussions, repetitive hits to the head in football and other contact sports can damage the brain.
A weekly pop-up menu at Noble Shepherd Craft Brewery in Bristol featuring Pad Thai Catering’s traditional Thai-Lao dishes has roots in a serendipitous crossing of paths three years ago.
Stimulating the economy despite historically low unemployment may open the door for discouraged and marginalized workers to get back into the game. This would be good for Rochester, and for the nation.
An infant, faith-based organization in the city hopes to become a sustainable lifeline for grandmothers who are now or have been primary caregivers for their own grandchildren.
The planned vote was only a means to an end. The real goal—to determine if there is public support for a state takeover of the Rochester City School District—can be achieved by other means.
One goal of the new draft comprehensive plan is to make neighborhoods more vibrant by increased residential density. But unless parking requirements are maintained, this would drive out higher-income residents who can afford the oversize 19th century homes that lend character to center city.