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Some 20 artists celebrated the musician’s birthday at Iron Smoke Distillery this week.
After Lucy Gwin was injured in a car accident on Lake Avenue in 1989, she became a national figure in the disability rights movement.
The former Xerox Tower, repurposed by Gallina Development, has five floors of housing for students from six local universities and colleges and expects to add 10 more by next fall.
Delta-X Global has committed to investing $25 million and creating up to 102 jobs.
Many hoped that the arrival of vaccines signaled imminent victory over the virus. But 12 months later, as many people still refuse to get vaccinated, the pandemic rages on.
In his new memoir, Bill Wynne describes how he became a staunch advocate for racial and social justice.
Starting Monday, all businesses and venues statewide must implement a mask requirement or require proof of fully vaccinated status.
UR researchers used historical and modern data from the city of Rochester and Monroe County.
When AA meetings were shuttered due to COVID-19, a local rock musician and graphic artist came up with an alternative to Zoom sessions.
For storyteller Perry Ground, a member of the Onondaga Nation of the Haudenosaunee, the tales he tells are not half-forgotten myths of a disappearing people, but “an insight into who we are.”
A tribal conflict over the fate of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act has rekindled support for universal access and the single-payer model. The Rochester Beacon asked the St. Joseph Neighborhood Center’s Sr. Christine Wagner and former Excellus CEO David Klein to address this important topic.
The Great Society programs of Lyndon Johnson began a sea change in health care finance. The public health insurance share has risen from 5 percent in 1965 to 41 percent today.
Rochester health care providers are hard at work averting another type of opioid crisis: a shortage of injectable opioids for home hospice and other outpatients who truly need them. How are they dealing with the challenge?
It will take a lot of faith to support the New York State Health Act, a proposal to establish a single-payer system in New York. Can a single-payer plan achieve universal coverage? What would be required to implement the plan? And, if implemented, can it save money or, at least, break even?
Adam Urbanski, president of the Rochester Teachers Association, has outlasted roughly a dozen superintendents of the Rochester City School District. While some blame him for staying too long and hindering progress, others hesitate to pin all the district’s woes on him.
The candidates vying to represent Monroe County in the 25th Congressional District, Democrat Joe Morelle and Republican Jim Maxwell, had very different approaches to President Donald Trump’s policies in two recent debates. But their positions on non-Trump issues generally fell along party lines.
A New York State Legislature wholly controlled by downstate interests won’t stop sending education aid Upstate or close the state parks. But the “where you stand depends on where you sit” aphorism holds a lot of truth.
The constitutional agnosticism about religious belief (or unbelief) has spurred a creedal pluralism and religious vitality that is unique among Western nations. As the mid-term elections approach, the Beacon invited two perspectives on the intersection of faith and political engagement.
Rochester Teachers Association President Adam Urbanski has consistently been in the crosshairs of the Rochester City School District’s fiercest critics. How did he get there?
The unemployment rate in the Rochester metro fell to 4 percent in September, half the rate at the peak of the recession in 2009, and below pre-recession levels. Is this good news?
Monroe County has been undergoing a major shift in party enrollment that clearly favors the Democrats. So, what explains the Republicans’ grip on the county executive’s office?
I am one of the lucky ones. I get to live in the United States, a country my parents taught me to idealize for its education systems and freedoms. Still, I am terrified to cross the border.
When Midtown Plaza opened, Dale Clark’s Clock of the Nations represented the heady spirit of the times. Clark, who died in March at age 94, outlived Midtown, the nation’s first downtown indoor mall.
Since the high-profile launch of the Rochester Monroe Anti-Poverty Initiative three years ago, its efforts have been dogged by misconceptions, Director Leonard Brock says. Can he change the narrative?