During the 1960’s and ‘70’s, Judy Collins was a folk music goddess. Her soaring soprano lifted songs like Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” to the heavens. The recording, which appeared on her debut album, “A Maid of Constant Sorrow,” earned Collins her first Grammy Award. Collins’ seemingly free spirit was part of her appeal during […]
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Big changes for Rochester Psychiatric Center
There are more questions than answers right now about the state’s plan to overhaul its mental health system and the impact that overhaul will have on Rochester. According to the plan, the state-run Rochester Psychiatric Center on Elmwood Avenue will become the Western New York Forensic Center of Excellence — one of 15 regional centers […]
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Mental illness: smashing the stigma
This is the first installment of a two-part series on mental health attitudes, research, and available services in the Rochester region. For much of the last century, the subject of mental health has been locked away in the public psyche, to be dragged out only after tragic events seize national attention: the student who walks […]
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More questions on solitary confinement and inmate mental health
Last year, a pair of publications criticized the use of solitary confinement in New York’s prisons. A report from the New York Civil Liberties Union and an article in The Nation said that officials’ often impose the punishment arbitrarily and excessively. A new article, published last week by ProPublica, questions state prisons’ use of solitary […]
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Budget hangover
Compared to some past budget deliberations, the city school district’s budget for 2013 to 2014 passed without much fuss. But to close a $50.2 million budget gap, Superintendent Bolgen Vargas made a cut that has some students, teachers, and parents worried. Even some board members are apprehensive about the cuts they approved. The new budget […]
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Reader Reedback 1.1.03
Breasts, exposed; mental health, supported; rights, threatened
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Rejoicing in visibility
Artists affected by mental illness mount a high-profile exhibit
