Letters
Seabreeze must act now: safety cannot wait until the off-season
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An incident at Seabreeze Amusement Park last month underscores the need for a backup safety system.
Letters
How taxes affect us, the American people
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“We the People.” That’s the big kickoff, right? The Constitution starts out sounding all grand and democratic, but honestly, for a lot of working people, especially anyone just starting out in the real world, those words ring kinda empty. Especially when tax season rolls around. Look, most of us aren’t out here raging against taxes. We get it: schools, roads, hospitals, the whole deal.
Letters
The annual animal apocalypse: fireworks and the Fourth of July
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I understand the appeal of fireworks, but I can’t help but wonder how it is for birds to suddenly see the sky set on fire, to hear a boom so loud it’s unnatural. Read the letter. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to play PETA. I’m not vegan, or even vegetarian, I’m not a member of any dietary dioceses.
And I understand the appeal of fireworks. Of things that go boom, pretty things, at that.
Letters
How is cutting health care patriotic?
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With the the One Big Beautiful Bill, Republican lawmakers are abandoning their responsibilities to serve their constituents.
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RG&E shows up when it matters most
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From investing in infrastructure, to providing assistance for those who need it most, to continuously improving our service, our commitment is clear.
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Shashi Sinha will reverse Rochester’s decline
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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.
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Vote blue no matter… hold on
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In Rochester, poverty and despair are creeping in at the edges from all directions. New government is needed.
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There’s help for first-time homebuyers
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Though affordable housing is a challenge locally, Rochester has many resources to help first-time homebuyers.
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The solution to Rochester’s failed anti-poverty initiatives
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There is one way, and only one way, to break the poverty cycle. The answer is education.
Letters
Speak Up for Palestine speaks out
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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.