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The Monroe County Water Authority answers every call during business hours with a live customer service rep—and does it within 12 seconds. Why can’t other businesses do the same?
Financial compensation for four centuries of government-sanctioned white supremacy would be an admission of responsibility and a beginning point for healing.
The program for high school students offers a taste of the campus experience while also introducing them to the humanities.
The Obsessed, a doom metal group that’s coming to town, has been grinding out their sound for four decades.
Once on the wane, the devastating disorder is now the world’s fastest-growing brain disease. Ray Dorsey M.D., a neurologist and UR Medical Center researcher, says harmful chemicals that pervade our environment are a key factor.
It’s tough to be 16 years old and have epilepsy, but I know others have it much worse. My goal with Amer’s Trail Epilepsy Run: to raise $100,000 and awareness for our local epilepsy center.
The program, which is the first of its kind in New York, allows violators willing to plead down to a lesser offense to do so online.
Beginning Thursday, City Councilmember Kim Smith will host meetings for the public to offer perspectives on the city’s housing issues, with a focus on the proposals put forward by the mayor’s Housing Quality Task Force last month.
Victims of nonfatal shootings suffer economic, psychological impacts.
In a move that could shave tens of millions off a payout in its bankruptcy case, the diocese argues is not responsible for offenses committed by employees or officials of legally separate entities such as schools and Catholic teaching orders.
The Roybal Center for Social Ties & Aging Research is funded by $3.6 million from the National Institutes of Health.
In 2019, individuals, businesses and other organizations contributed more than $34 million during the annual campaign.
A local case involving a Brighton day spa is part of a broader trend of resistance to non-compete and non-disclosure pacts that try to bind lower-wage workers to their employers.
Modern pain management techniques reduce the need for opioid prescriptions.
The company’s decline was not inevitable, but successfully adapting to film’s obsolescence was a daunting challenge that bedeviled a series of CEOs.
A group of Rochester-based Muslim and Jewish activists believe our diverse communities will have true safety only when we all band together against the rising tides of violence, here and across the globe.
The founder of popular eateries including Pomodoro Grill and Aladdin’s Natural Eatery seeks a Chapter 7 liquidation to “obtain a fresh start.”
Most community leaders and readers who participated in a Rochester Beacon survey expressed optimism about the prospects for our region over the next 10 years. The No. 1 challenge? Reducing poverty.
As part of the national All in Campus Democracy Challenge, they boosted student voting rates in the 2018 midterm elections.
Kodak’s downsizing and restructuring did not devastate the local economy. A number of Kodak workers continued in the same jobs, but with a different employer. Others became entrepreneurs or bolstered the ranks of established firms.
When Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduces his Executive Budget proposal, how will he propose to close the projected $6.1 billion budget gap. By controlling spending, not new taxes.
Composers Crossing on East Main and Gibbs Street shows how a small group of people with a love and passion for Rochester can shape its future.
During NewsMatch, the nation’s largest grassroots fundraising effort in support of nonprofit news organizations, individual donors gave more than $20,000—funds eligible for the campaign’s dollar-for-dollar match.
Other diocesan Chapter 11 cases have followed lengthy legal battles. In Rochester, the bankruptcy filing was triggered by the Child Victims Act’s one-year window for sex-abuse victims’ claims.