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Midway through 2023, Rochester Mayor Malik Evans and other city leaders remain focused on two pressing public safety issues—motor vehicle thefts and illegal guns—and the connection they have to youth.
New York has been allocated nearly $665 million in federal funding under the federal Broadband Equity Access and Deployment Program. Now, the state must develop a five-year action plan.
The campaign is an initiative of the city’s Office of Violence Prevention and local filmmaker Shabaka Mu Ausar.
The third annual #DouglassWeek will include more than 40 in-person and virtual talks, performances and events.
The Corn Hill Arts Festival will feature an array of handcrafted items from nearly 400 artists, plus food, drinks and music.
The health systems will join forces on Aug.1. It adds two hospitals, in Yates and Ontario counties, to UR’s eight-hospital network.
Last week’s Supreme Court decision upended race-conscious admissions policies in place at selective colleges and universities for decades. What does it mean for Rochester-area schools?
In a poll of Beacon readers, 63 percent disapproved of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling.
Disadvantaged students need affirmative action, but the concept of disadvantage should be holistic, placing more weight on a person’s class and less weight—if any—on this person’s race.
Plans call for the century-old Rochester optics firm, recently acquired by British firm G&H, to expand its downtown facility.
Rochesterians Pepin Accilien, a native of Haiti, and Ed Hourihan, a board member of the Haitian Health Foundation, believe the Caribbean island nation can overcome its recent travails and troubled past.
The state Canal Corporation still rejects the values of the natural vegetation as a source of shade, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, community character, history, and environmental conservation.
Kathy Hochul will soon become the first New York governor in a century from outside the New York City area. Does the Rochester region stand to gain? And what must Hochul do to win in the 2022 election?
Arbitrarily tying the money supply to a commodity does not reduce uncertainty. That’s why there is very little support for a return to the gold standard among economists.
When the pandemic hit, the medical information firm invested for the future. Now, it anticipates double-digit revenue growth.
A new media campaign, launched as cases are surging again, offers answers from local medical experts to common questions and concerns about the COVID-19 vaccines.
The death of Daniel Murphy, owner of Murph’s Pub in Irondequoit, leaves a large hole in the local music scene.
Contrary to the declines seen in estimates released in May, Monroe County and the metro area gained population from 2010 to 2020.
With COVID-19 cases rising again and an inadequate supply of beds in shelters, the plight of the area’s homeless population is likely to worsen.
On Aug. 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of U.S. dollars to gold. When the gold standard departed, inflation took over.
Driven by the spread of variants, a new pandemic wave is hitting the unvaccinated hard.
His announcement comes a week after a 165-page report from state Attorney General Letitia James concluded that Cuomo sexually harassed 11 women.
A three-year UR Warner School study focused on justice-centered science teaching recently received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
