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Rochester City Council president Miguel Meléndez Jr.’s report focuses chiefly on the impacts experienced by housed residents, while giving far less attention to the people who are most directly and severely harmed by homelessness itself.
The Rochester City School District simply does not do well educating students.
While data centers have potential economic benefits, there are known negative environmental impacts.
Building a monster data center at the Genesee County site will take up more than 20 percent of property and create a measly number of jobs while not creating anything useful.
A cultural exchange program like ShinShinim may seem benign until we consider the ongoing mass killing, displacement, and devastation in the Middle East.
Our representatives in Congress continue to squash immigration reform that local farmers want and need.
If the county Legislature opts out of a new state requirement to create a short-term rental registry, it will be a vote against basic transparency, enforcement tools, and fair taxation.
Dec. 10, the annual celebration of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is a reminder of the need for forward-thinking actions on the human rights challenges we face.
Good citizenship requires critical thinking. But today, it’s a nebulous term that is often not clearly defined, assessed or demonstrated by students.
Real and serious efforts to help improve educational conditions for all children in the Rochester City School District must focus around key issues