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Our region may be particularly well-positioned to benefit from the potential disruptive power of AI.
Rochester Area Community Foundation’s new grant cycle hopes to help more students engage with arts and culture.
The deal with the Graduate Labor Union would have allowed students to vote on union representation. Now, they are gathering votes for a potential strike.
Regardless of where you stand on diversity, it’s impossible to ignore a simple truth: diversity drives innovation.
James Goldman’s classic 1966 play is the first Rochester production of the Ensemble Theatre Company of New York and its director Kevin Shinnick.
The recent controversy in the Penfield school district is a microcosm of a growing trend in the country: challenges to books in public school libraries.
Goodwill of the Finger Lakes has a key role in the circular economy, working with businesses that are developing ways to convert waste textiles made of polyester into new thread that can be woven into new clothing.
President Trump, who was convicted of 34 felonies, and Elon Musk with Republicans acceding, are looting the government to line their own pockets with massive tax cuts and steering federal contracts their way. Mr. Musk and his companies were under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice, the Federal Aviation Administration, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Labor Relations Board, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Department of Transportation, the Federal Trade Commission and USAID prior to President Trump’s illegal dismissal of 18 Inspector Generals. The job of the Inspector Generals is to root out waste, fraud and abuse and they are accountable to Congress and the American people. Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, (DOGE), is not responsible to Congress or to the American people. They are not vetted; they could be foreign terrorist for all anyone knows. Mr. Trump fired the Inspector Generals because they were accountable to the American people.
The budget proposed by the Republicans entails $4.5 trillion tax cut mostly for the wealthy and large corporations with $2 trillion in spending cuts that will jeopardize the health care and food programs for poor and middle-class Americans. It is important to remember that during President Biden’s administration, the Democrats dramatically reduced the deficits and the ratio of debt to gross domestic product while creating the fastest recovery in decades and strengthening the social safety net, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates that the Republican budget proposal would increase the debt by “nearly $4 trillion.” Also, they write that the Republican’s budget “economic assumptions are overly aggressive,” meaning that they expect the budget proposals would do more damage to the middle class and increase the debt by a lot more.
Cutting jobs and government agencies randomly with no purpose or plan is wasteful. Furthermore, Mr. Musk’s DOGE group is rifling through Americans personal information through the IRS, the SSI and the Treasury Department. They do not have any clearance or Congressional authority. I want readers to know that Congresswoman Claudia Tenney not only accepts this invasion of your privacy, the loss of government safety net and jobs and the looting of your tax dollars but she praises this behavior.
William FineBrockport
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I received the following a few days ago from a person I know well, a Rochester native, who is bright and very dedicated to their work as a public servant. They live in Maryland now and work for a federal agency within the U.S. government providing essential services to people of all ages, and doing research to make sure the services are as effective as possible. It is critical that truth, including real stories affecting people, be spread about the processes and impacts of recent actions by our government. We need truth to inform our actions. I want to share with you what has been going on with so many Americans recently who work for the federal government.
The two universities are among new members taking part in New York’s efforts to increase the computing power of the Empire AI supercomputer.
The medical center and Five Star are working together on a pilot effort to offer telemedicine-equipped health stations at bank branches in three rural communities.
Bloom ROC, a coalition of legacy voices in the cannabis industry, offers support and education to aspiring entrepreneurs, emerging businesses and groups.
Abuse survivors were hoping to see a step forward in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester’s Chapter 11 case. They came away disappointed.
Micah Walker, also known as Senojfromtheroc, creates music and art for his city from a place of resolve.
A large share of road fatalities is attributed to speeding and ignoring traffic signals. Should Rochester be using cameras to enforce traffic laws?
Presented by the Hilton School District Jazz Department and Hilton Music Boosters, the annual event will feature the Chris Minh Doky All Stars Band.
RIT’s recently opened Student Hall for Exploration and Development serves as the intersection of technology, the arts and design on campus, its executive director says.
Forty lawyers, paralegals and support staffers, at the nonprofit center for public interest law, intend to join the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys-UAW Local 2325.
Laws so far have been no match for the spread of non-consensual intimate imagery. But with federal legislation proposed by Rep. Joe Morelle and a new law on the books in New York, the fight is heating up.
The Little Theatre will screen a documentary and feature a conversation with its star, Mark Kistler, former host of “The Secret City,” “Draw Squad,” and “Imagination Station.”
The Firing Pin, a gun shop and indoor range, will host a pistol safety training course at the Kodak Center this weekend.
Squeezed by sharply rising costs and what they believe are inadequate reimbursements from Excellus, Rochester-area physicians in private practice are “literally crying their hearts out.”
DevelopROC’s plan, which envisions nearly 800 residential units as well as retail and office space, will be unveiled to the public Feb. 27.
The Antiracism Curriculum Project’s Resistance Mapping project is digital education archive that documents the history of racist housing and other place-based policies in the Rochester area.