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RCSD Budget Put Off Again, Now Set for March 26
Mar 25, 2020
Patti Singer pattisinger@minorityreporter.net First, the date was March 17. Then it was March 24. Board of Education President Van White...
New Study Shows Inflammation Plays a Major Role in Dementia
Mar 25, 2020
A new British study finds there might be a link between brain inflammation and dementia. Thomas Cope, who’s on the Department of Clinical...
LeBron, Barnhart, Lupien ‘Zoom’ in on Residents’ Concerns
Mar 23, 2020
Patti Singer pattisinger@minorityreporter.net A Monroe County legislator, a Rochester City Council member and a Rochester Board of...
Health Department to Issue Regular Updates on COVID-19
Mar 17, 2020
Patti Singer pattisinger@minorityreporter.net Monroe County has 14 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of 10 a.m. March 17, according to the...
RHA Accepting Online Applications for Public Housing Wait List
Mar 10, 2020
Staff reports Applications for the Rochester Housing Authority public housing waiting list can be made online as the system moves to...
How Would You Change Medicaid to Save Money, Keep Services?
Feb 17, 2020
The public is invited to comment on proposed changes to the state’s Medicaid program under the budget for the 2021 fiscal year. The New...
Rochester Housing Market’s Growing Popularity Poses Potential Problem For Renters
Jan 30, 2020
Rochester’s real estate market is heating up. According to a recent report from Realtor.com, the housing market in Rochester is one...
Rochester, NY Is Officially The Snowiest City In America
Jan 20, 2020
Rochester, NY has been rated the snowiest city in the U.S. after this past weekend’s additional 6.6 inches of snow. The Rochester...
Hispanics are Nearly One-Third of New RFD Recruits
Jan 15, 2020
The Rochester Fire Department announced that its current recruit class has the highest percentage of minorities of any class in the history...
Are Opioids to Blame For Home Depot Thefts?
Dec 26, 2019
Although pop-up shops are helping small businesses (thanks to a growing market value of $50 billion), big box stores still reign supreme in...