The mayhem and looting that followed the Black Lives Matter protest over the weekend recalled the Rochester riots of 1964.
Employment
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The super-commuters
Chris McGoldrick often leaves work on Friday afternoons, but it’s not until the early hours of Saturday morning that he pulls his white Subaru Outback into his driveway. Aside from the flickering glow of a neighbor’s television, there are few signs of life. It takes about six-and-a-half hours for McGoldrick to drive the nearly 400 […]
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Yet another challenge for the anti-poverty folks
To ‘eradicate poverty’ in the City of Rochester, we’ll need to create jobs. But we’ll have to do much, much more.
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Better odds for ex-offenders
Simply forbidding employers from asking about people’s criminal history on job applications — typically by asking them to check a box — isn’t enough to radically transform the employment landscape in Rochester.
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Warren vs. Richards: One city, two visions
The Lovely Warren who walked to the front of the room in early May to ask her fellow Democrats to support her bid for mayor is not the same Lovely Warren who’s on the campaign trail today. There has been an observable transformation. Those first rough, nervous steps have been replaced by confident strides. Candidate […]
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Election economics
City Council President and mayoral candidate Lovely Warren rolled out her economic plan last week during a press conference at her west-side headquarters. | Warren’s plan includes creating a Rochester Industrial Development Agency to guarantee jobs for city residents, pursuing social impact bonds to help deal with Rochester’s serious social problems, creating a small business […]
