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Sports
Education
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Cultural Life
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Politics
History
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Cultural Life
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Looking at refugees not as a technical problem but as a human experience

This week my good friends Judy Bello and Lynda Howland spoke at a dinner at SUNY Geneseo to raise awareness and funds for Syrian refugees. Below is their account both of the trip and the work

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Events of the Day Social Issues

Rochester leaves its footprint on La Marche Globale

Today hundreds walked downtown in concert with the world. Including in their streets 60,000 unbowed Parisians showing solidarity and demanding action. Marking the opening of the COP21 United

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Transgender Day of Remembrance. Did it all begin with Jean de Arc? Open Arms Pastor Brae Adams joins the conversation

To show solidarity for an event and a cause deserving support and its own kind of celebration, I visited Open Arms Metropolitan Community Church of Western New York on East Main Street. All day

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On Veteran’s Day at Buckland and Highland Parks. And the Moral Equivalent of War

My first stop on Veteran’s Day was Buckland Park in Brighton on Westfall Road for a 2pm ceremony honoring Veterans from World War Two to Iraq. From there my philosophical journey took me to the

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History Social Issues Sports

65 years ago today at Edgerton Park Arena when the NBA color line was first broken. And Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in Rochester; summer of ’46

Halloween marks the 65th Anniversary of the night the NBA color line was broken by Earl Lloyd right here in Rochester at the old Edgerton Park Arena. Below is a post — with new information

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Cultural Life Social Issues

Local artists’ enduring message of hope for troubled youth at Pre-Trial Services

Recently, Charlene Leistman, Director of Operations at Pre-Trial Services Corp, contacted Talker of the Town to present publicly for the first time a montage of the dozen or so beautiful murals

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You may soon be living in New York State’s first “EcoDistrict”

Being green, this morning I bicycled over to MCC for the Greentopia FUTURES Summit. As explained to me by one of the Co-Founders of Greentopia, Lewis Stess, today’s conference, Cities of

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Education Events of the Day Social Issues

A pilgrimage of peace from Palmyra to Pittsford

Yet another picturesque autumn day in Pittsford was punctuated by an unusual scene. A group of marchers who at 8am had left Palmyra and 16 miles later were crossing the bridge over the Canal

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Human Interest Social Issues

Jo Jo and me reunited! And revisiting “Against Prejudging in Pittsford at Lock 62”

One of favorite posts over the summer was “Against Prejudging in Pittsford at Lock 62.” It was the story of two young men, Jo Jo and Josh, I met at Lock 62 in Pittsford. A similar

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Talker of the Town invited for a week to Rochester Free Radio with George Payne on the Broken Spear Vision

On Sunday, I was invited to George Payne’s Broken Spear Vision program on Rochester Free Radio. Broken Spear Vision Now live for about a year, Rochester Free Radio is a community,

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