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Beaconomics

Opioid-related deaths soar in Monroe County

By KENT GARDNER | December 5, 2018

Upstate rates of opioid deaths far exceed the rates experienced in New York City’s largest boroughs. The growth in the rate of deaths due to opioid overdoses is terrifying.

Beaconomics

Making sense of the graduation rate

By KENT GARDNER | November 23, 2018

Darrell Huff’s “How to Lie with Statistics” was an instant classic following its publication in 1954. Do widely quoted figures on K-12 education tell the whole story?

Beaconomics

Independent hospitals are a dying breed

By KENT GARDNER | October 18, 2018

In 1990, there were 13 private, independent hospitals in Monroe County and the five counties that surround it. Today, nearly all these local hospitals have become part of either Rochester Regional Health or the University of Rochester system.

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