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Rochester Beacon (https://rochesterbeacon.com/category/letters/page/2/)
From investing in infrastructure, to providing assistance for those who need it most, to continuously improving our service, our commitment is clear.
As mayor, Malik Evans has failed to address the city’s two festering problems: crime and education. Shashi Sinha will give Rochester the leadership it needs.
In Rochester, poverty and despair are creeping in at the edges from all directions. New government is needed.
Though affordable housing is a challenge locally, Rochester has many resources to help first-time homebuyers.
There is one way, and only one way, to break the poverty cycle. The answer is education.
Many hundreds of days have now passed since the cycle of violence between the Israelis and Palestinians—nearly quotidian after so many decades of hostility—resumed with a brutality that has dwarfed all that came before. Collectively, America seems to be watching these events with more curiosity than concern, as though Israel, our nation’s pariah-client, were only a troubled child burning ants with a magnifying glass. Americans rarely rebuke a war sold to them under false pretenses even when they are the ones dying in it, and less so when they are only being asked to foot the cost. Then we are as indifferent as when we’re asked to round up our grocery bill for Foodlink. Against this cynicism stands a small but persistent national movement of Palestine sympathizers that began their mission shortly after October 7th, 2023.
Congresswoman Claudia Tenney and her Republicans colleagues are choosing to turn a strong economy into a recession by failing to a check and balance on the executive branch.
By eliminating the Board, universities and school districts would have greater flexibility, improved efficiency, and the ability to make decisions based on academic expertise rather than political or financial motivations.
We need greater transparency, accountability, and affordability, not a system that allows hospitals and out-of-state corporate middlemen to profit off programs meant for patient care.
A close look at the Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act cap and invest policy and NY HEAT Act reveals wishful thinking and magical solutions.