Category: Editorial, Featured News, Top Stories
Open Letter to Mike Mazzeo: Has Locust Club Considered a Name Change?
Feb 04, 2021
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
Jan 26, 2021
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!
Jan 26, 2021
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
Jan 26, 2021
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”
Jan 20, 2021
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?
Jan 14, 2021
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
Jan 08, 2021
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!
Jan 08, 2021
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
Dec 17, 2020
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
Dec 17, 2020
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...