GUEST OPINION
Planting seeds for change: the Breast Cancer Coalition Research Initiative
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The Breast Cancer Coalition has awarded over $1 million in seed grants to regional researchers to date.
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How RG&E and the PSC are failing us
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If the Public Service Commission is not going to effectively regulate utilities, it must help create new publicly-owned utilities.
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Resist the push to ban books
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Book bans and other attempts to restrict access to knowledge serve to keep people isolated, uninformed, and susceptible to authoritarianism. We need to protect academic freedom for our children.
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Does Albany hate Rochester’s charter school kids?
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Rochester’s per-pupil charter school funding pales in comparison to RCSD schools—and also lags the charter school funding rate in every other sizable upstate district.
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New York can’t afford Letitia James’ FAIR Act
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Spurred by the Trump administration’s efforts to reduce regulatory oversight, New York Attorney General Letitia James has proposed legislation that would expand the state law prohibiting deceptive business practices to include “unfair” and “abuse” practices—a step that would create legal chaos, Upstate United’s executive director argues.
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The power of presence: how mentorship heals what the system breaks
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Individuals who “age out” of foster care often find themselves adrift, cut off from those connections that can make life manageable. Ashley Cross, founder of HOPE585, describes the power of mentorship to instill hope.
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Local Palestinians’ memories of the Nakba
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A conversation with two local women, daughters of Palestinian Arabs forced from their homeland in 1948, brought to the surface memories and emotions that have been passed through generations.
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The new political debate: civility first
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It’s easier to point fingers at the opposition than it is to focus on solving the underlying problems. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
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Improve public safety by improving pretrial services
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Legislation to create an office of pretrial services is an uncontroversial way to enhance public safety.
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Funding cuts could worsen the child maltreatment epidemic
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A possible 30 percent reduction in federal HHS spending would put at risk critical initiatives to combat child maltreatment in Monroe County and New York State.