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Finger Lakes Health to merge with UR Medicine
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The health systems will join forces on Aug.1. It adds two hospitals, in Yates and Ontario counties, to UR’s eight-hospital network.
Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/2023/07/page/3/)
The health systems will join forces on Aug.1. It adds two hospitals, in Yates and Ontario counties, to UR’s eight-hospital network.
Last week’s Supreme Court decision upended race-conscious admissions policies in place at selective colleges and universities for decades. What does it mean for Rochester-area schools?
In a poll of Beacon readers, 63 percent disapproved of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling.
Disadvantaged students need affirmative action, but the concept of disadvantage should be holistic, placing more weight on a person’s class and less weight—if any—on this person’s race.
Plans call for the century-old Rochester optics firm, recently acquired by British firm G&H, to expand its downtown facility.
The campaign here mirrors other municipalization efforts—fueled by the desire for lower rates and greater local control—that have occurred around the country in recent decades. But it faces daunting odds.
The crowds remained undeterred in their celebration of music in downtown Rochester.
A piano duo, a jazz trio and an orchestra added flair to a hazy Friday evening at the Jazz Fest.