The city’s proposed comprehensive plan aims for increased economic development, infrastructure improvements, and greater economic and social equality. Its predecessor also had lofty goals; only some were achieved.
Innovation
Full steam ahead for Imagine RIT
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Returning for its 12th year, the annual festival has become a major showcase for creativity, innovation and problem-solving involving science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math.
Community
Promoting equal pay
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The Susan B. Anthony Center at the University of Rochester is advocating for equal pay with the theme #EXTRA80. The center marks Equal Pay Day today.
Community
A new way forward
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Since becoming United Way CEO a year ago, Jaime Saunders has shown a willingness to take risks. “We’re going to make mistakes, we’re going to learn and course correct and grow,” she says.
Community
A journey of life-saving work
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Once among the Lost Boys of Sudan, Salva Dut is a symbol of what one person – together with a caring and giving community – can achieve in the world. In an audio interview with the Beacon, he describes his arrival in Rochester two decades ago, the growth of Water for South Sudan, and what he hopes it can achieve in the years to come.
Community
A plight years in the making
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The Rochester Historical Society’s finances have been spiraling downward, imperiling its collections. The chief causes: misguided self-reliance and difficulty adapting to modern fundraising realities.
Community
Is the Democrat and Chronicle facing an existential challenge?
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Operating in a deeply troubled industry a much smaller Gannett was ripe for the hostile buyout offer from Digital First Media, owned by Alden Global Capital. If Alden has its way, the D&C will soon contain many fewer local stories of any sort written by local reporters.
Guest Opinion
Handling conflict without contempt
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Whether the racial slur used by local TV weatherman Jeremy Kappell was an accidental slip of the tongue or a speech practice that reflected his bias, after it happened, it stopped being only about him and also started becoming about us.
Guest Opinion
A fight that can be won
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Although the latest data show Rochester’s poverty rate remains among the highest in the nation, the communitywide effort to tackle the problem at its root causes has made significant progress.
Guest Opinion
On statues, history and ignorance
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Is a statue always more than art? What is the relationship between a statue and a community’s evolving beliefs, values, and principles?
Community
Rochester’s imperiled heritage
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The Rochester Historical Society, home of artifacts that tell the community’s stories, is in danger of losing these treasures.