Education
A tool for election education
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In the leadup to the 2024 presidential election, Rochester company Second Avenue Learning has a tool for students to learn about the political process.
Community
An affordable housing visionary and servant leader
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Nelson Leenhouts, 88, with his twin brother, Norman, built Home Properties, one of the nation’s largest apartment companies, and later launched Home Leasing with his daughter.
Culture
From Hong Kong to Honeoye Falls
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Bleak House Books, a family-owned bookshop founded in Hong Kong in 2017, is striving to build a new community for bibliophiles here.
Health & Science
URMC’s post-COVID financial squeeze
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The University of Rochester Medical Center, whose UR Medicine system is the region’s largest health care provider, is trying to rein in skyrocketing labor costs.
Health & Science
URMC gets another $27 million for heart care study
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The funds, for the first large-scale, head-to-head comparison of two heart failure drugs, brings to $54 million the total received by the URMC cardiac research team in four months.
GUEST OPINION
The real cost of undermining CDPAP
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Disrupting the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program could endanger the health and safety of sick, disabled, and elderly New Yorkers who use the program to designate their own caregivers and remain in their own homes.
Education
RIT receives $3 million grant to train grad students
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The university expects to prepare more than 170 semiconductor engineers and scientists to help close the workforce gap and strengthen the nation’s semiconductor technology leadership.
Community
Workers, farms enter binding arbitration
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The move comes after months of delays and negotiations between vegetable and fruit growers and pickers over unionization.
GUEST OPINION
Race vs. class in achieving the American dream
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In designing policies to promote upward mobility, new research suggests, class ought to be given as much and maybe even more weight than race.
Letters
Beware of the slavish, lesser-of-two-damn-evils mentality
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In the upcoming presidential election, there is a viable choice, especially for Black voters—but not if they listen to the Black political “mis-leadership.”