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Advocates, providers, and legislators agree: unsheltered and chronic homelessness in Rochester and Monroe County are on the rise and must be addressed.
The center at RIT was launched in 2015 to help New York become a global leader in 3D-printing technologies.
Real and serious efforts to help improve educational conditions for all children in the Rochester City School District must focus around key issues
Is the shift to a single fiscal intermediary for New York’s Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program a win for taxpayers or a flawed move that has jeopardized care for needy New Yorkers?
New York’s transition of CDPAP from 600 fiscal intermediaries to a single statewide FI has alleviated administrative headaches, allowing everyone to focus more on what matters: providing the best care to seniors and individuals with disabilities.
My daughter is one of the many that have now fallen through the cracks of this transition, despite the assurance of Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Department of Health that this wouldn’t happen.
United Farm Workers organizers have called on Wayne County’s Wafler Farms to implement a contract imposed in arbitration.
Is there such a thing as an uneducable student or is it the inability for the educational elite to educate. After decades of educational failure, I know whom I will vote for and side with, the student. It’s without question the inability, or even the will, to educate. You see all kids have innate skills and gifts. When those kids enter pre-K and then begin their K-12 education, these gifts have the opportunity to be discovered.
Republicans claim that Democrats are shutting down the government because they want to give free healthcare to immigrants in the country illegally. That is a lie. It has no basis in reality. Republicans are lying because they want to take away your healthcare, and they know that is unpopular. The major legislation Republicans passed this year, the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” is designed to take healthcare away from millions of citizens and vastly increase the cost of health care for millions more.
In this time when half the country is certain the other half is crazy, can we take a half a step back from being so sure about our own opinions?
For Hannah Rickert, one of 20 award recipients nationwide, the award says, “You’re not invisible even if your disability is.”
Penny Sterling’s “Mounting Washington” one-woman show will be at the 18th annual United Solo Festival.
Robert Brooks, from Rochester, died in December after several corrections officers beat him and hoisted him by the neck in Marcy Correctional Facility.
Under the Trump administration, the National Institutes of Health has placed a 15 percent cap on indirect research costs—a move that would cut annual funding by $40 million at the University of Rochester and at least $630 million statewide. UR and other universities are fighting back.
The Rochester native, who died Jan. 24 at age 84, worked to address issues of social equity and justice here and helped transform U.S. and European cities that had experienced decades of economic decline.
The city will adopt an approach used by other cities based on recommendations from the Law Enforcement Action Partnership.
The housing crisis here and around the country is a result of overwhelming demand confronting chronically insufficient supply.
Attendance, absenteeism and suspensions in elementary schools have shown signs of improvement.
Speaking at the Rochester Beacon community forum on Vision Zero, Mayor Malik Evans said the initiative is “going to save lives and reduce the incredible amounts of suffering that comes from these crashes.”
Traditionally produced ice wines will be featured at the annual festival hosted by Casa Larga Vineyards.
On Sunday, 15 local choral groups will present “A Taste of Song,” a prism-style concert that is a biannual presentation of the Greater Rochester Choral Consortium.
It’s now been a half-decade since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has claimed more than 3,350 lives in the Rochester area and 7 million worldwide. For many people who lived through the pandemic, the experience has had a profound and lasting impact.
A New York Focus investigation identified dozens of cases in which the units denied a wrongful conviction application, only for a judge to later exonerate them.
Information on students’ place of birth will not be included in student directories or available to third parties.