Essay
February 23, 2026
As I read President Miguel Meléndez Jr.’s Report on Homelessness, I was struck by a deep sadness, because it feels as though the heart of the issue is being missed. The report correctly identifies homelessness as a public health crisis. I agree wholeheartedly. But a public health crisis for whom? Much of the discussion focuses
- February 9, 2026
This Is Not a Shooting Gallery On February 6th I spent thirteen hours on a bus for about a two-hour tour. And I’d do it again tomorrow. Because when you’re trying to solve something that’s killing your neighbors, you don’t get to build your opinion from headlines and vibes. You have to go look. You
- November 28, 2025
By Gary Harding I know on the surface it can look like things are moving in the right direction.The “mayor on the block” walks.The ribbon cuttings.The smiling photos with neighbors and business owners.The press releases about new initiatives and “investments in community.”I get why that feels hopeful. I really do.But here’s what it looks like
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483 - October 6, 2025
Our new County Attorney is a career prosecutor who is registered with the Conservative Party, which opposes everything Democrats stand for. Matthew Schwartz is registered as a member of the Conservative Party — a party whose platform couldn’t be more at
- June 18, 2025
By Robert Sandgrund, LCSW
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Rochester’s top Democrats have nothing to say while immigrants are detained, deported, and disappeared. Mayor Malik Evans would rather talk about anything else. At a recent press conference, Evans awkwardly confirmed that Rochester police officers helped Border Patrol detain undocumented immigrants—violating the
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by Gregory Lebens-Higgins Did Donald Trump stage an attempted assassination to score political points? Did McDonald’s help track down Luigi Mangione using AI-powered facial recognition technology? What if
- April 9, 2025
By Marc James Léger Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are currently on a tour of the United States that is focused on those swing states that switched from Democrat to Republican in the last election.1 Titled ‘Fighting Oligarchy,’ the tour is hailed by the
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“Laundering Black rage means trying to get at something maybe even worse than co-optation, an actual means of governing people’s rage – to take that threat and then use it against them as a means of keeping them within the very framework that they’re pissed off about.” -Too Black, author of Laundering Black Rage: The
Read More2.7K - March 17, 2025
The concept of building community is commonly used as a buzzword by NGOs and leftists as a proposed solution to the struggles faced under capitalism within the imperial core, where we find ourselves socially alienated and struggling to tread water financially. The issue however is that it rarely materializes into anything more than empty platitudes.
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