Category: Editorial, Featured News, Top Stories
Open Letter to Mike Mazzeo: Has Locust Club Considered a Name Change?
Michael Nighan Michael Nighan recently sent a letter to the Locust Club president. Nighan lived in Rochester for more than 20 years. He now...
Parental Empowerment and Rochester City School District
Op-ed by Deborah Hanmer Silence is violence. I heard that phrase so many times this summer in protests around our nation that were...
Something to Think About: Stand-up to the RTA!
Op-ed by Rev. Michael Vaughn As we approach a year of lockdowns and serious control measures as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic there...
Assault on Capitol is not about Black Lives Matter
Op-ed by George Payne In the bloody wake of an insurrection on the Capitol by hordes of armed white supremacists and naive Trump...
Are We Still “Woke”
Op Ed by Howard J. Eagle and allies The 2021 campaign for three open seats on the Rochester Board of Education (Van White’s,...
Something to Think About: Structural Racism and COVID-19?
Op-ed by Rev. Michael Vaughn As we all know, we are in the midst of a pandemic and have been this way since March of 2020. During...
Biden’s Compassion Matters to World’s Poor
Op-ed by George Payne While President Trump pouts and plots, and President-elect Biden anticipates and appoints, there is an October news...
Something to Think About: Time to Go Back to School.. In-Person!
Op-ed by Rev. Michael Vaughn Well, here we are at the end of 2020 and indeed it has been quite a year! Through the challenges with...
State Budget Cuts, in Addition to COVID-19, Could be Devastating to Anti-poverty Initiatives
Op-ed by Aqua Porter The COVID-19 pandemic has wounded Rochester gravely, and the possibility of new state budget cuts would only sharpen...
HOW EASILY WE FORGET, AN HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY IS SLIPPING AWAY
Op-ed by Howard Eagle It seems that here in modern-day slave-town U.S.A. (Rochester, NY), hardly anyone remembers that just seven (7) short...
