Many black and Latino gangs operated in the housing projects near Father Gregory Boyle’s church when he started working in East Los Angeles 30 years ago. He was warned not to walk through the neighborhood. “I remember early on a police car pulled over next to me because I was this white guy walking in […]
Tim Louis Macaluso
I was born and raised in the Rochester area, but I lived in California and Florida before returning home about 12 years ago. I'm a vegetarian and live with my husband and our three pugs. I cover education, health care, and local politics for City.
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Homeland Security allegedly contacted about two Naz students
A member of a local church allegedly called Homeland Security after two male Nazareth College students, both Muslim, attended a service and coffee hour at the church on Sunday, said Nazareth president Daan Braveman in a letter addressed to the “Campus Community.”
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No, Michael Gerson, hypocrisy is not O.K.
It’s hard to say which is more stomach-turning, the nonsensical things Donald Trump says or the half-witted things Trump’s supporters say in an effort to normalize him: “He’s a businessman, not a politician.” “He’s not erratic, he’s unpredictable.” Or my personal favorite, “He isn’t a racist, he just isn’t afraid to say what everyone else […]
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The pressure is on for East High
It’s been almost two years to the day that the University of Rochester proposed taking over East High School; the State Education Department gave the Rochester school district few options. In a district used to crisis, East, one the lowest performing schools in the state, had become a three-alarm fire. If the UR didn’t step […]
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New RCSD superintendent breaks her silence
[UPDATED AND REVISED 12/2/16] Superintendent Barbara Deane-Williams acknowledged that the Rochester school district’s special education program is a mess at a meeting yesterday with about 300 members of the Rochester Teachers Association. The city school district’s new superintendent laid out what she’s learned after speaking to more than 1,000 district employees and community leaders – […]
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Verbal attack prompts letter to Trump
“Dee,” a fifth grader at School 4 in the Rochester City School District, has some advice for Donald Trump. The 10-year-old, whose real name is being withheld, wrote a letter to the president-elect about the inappropriate and disrespectful language he used during the campaign, she says. Dee says Trump can do better. “I know you […]
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Disabled still fighting for equal access
When Rasheem Broughton goes to shake hands, it’s a bit like lifting a broken wing. His hand floats in midair and his grip is soft and loose. Broughton has spent much of his adult life in a wheelchair. A gunshot wound when he was in his teens left him a quadriplegic with multiple disabilities. But […]
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Getting to zero energy costs
The Old Farmer’s Almanac predicts colder temperatures and more snow in Western New York than average this winter. But Honeoye Falls resident Matthew Bowers says he isn’t concerned, even though he doesn’t have a furnace. Bowers, a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology and certified passive home designer, says he’s confident the home he designed […]
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Charge up and go
[UPDATED AND REVISED 11/1/16]Cruising Route 66 in your Chevrolet or Pontiac V8 was once the ultimate expression of the American spirit — embodying freedom, restlessness, and the wide open road. But more than a half-century later, electric vehicles are inspiring a much different American spirit: one concerned about the steep fiscal and environmental costs of […]
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NYCLU condemns solitary
The New York Civil Liberties Union and Legal Services of Central New York filed a class-action lawsuit in district court last month against the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office for its alleged use of solitary confinement for 16 and 17 year olds. The NYCLU says that the young people, many of whom are mentally ill, are […]
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Keep Bello, Slaughter
Louise Slaughter and Adam Bello have earned our endorsement in their races for Congress and Monroe County clerk, respectively.
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Russians send gay pastor packing
The Rev. James Mulcahy sat with a group of LGBTQ activists in the Russian city of Samara last July, having a cup of tea and talking about nothing in particular, he says. Mulcahy, who served as pastor for Rochester’s Metropolitan Community Church from 2000 to 2012, says that the group was barely 20 minutes into […]
