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Once again, hospital funding is under attack. The cuts to healthcare proposed by the state and federal government are the worst that Rochester’s hospitals have seen in nearly 10 years. This is unacceptable not only for the health and safety ...

Tagged with: On Health Travis Heider

You could argue that telemedicine has been around as long as the telephone. Just as dialing a rotary phone has changed to telling Alexa to make the call, telemedicine has morphed from the doctor simply instructing you to “take two ...

Three-D printers make artificial limbs, “organs” so lifelike they appear to bleed and replacements for parts of jaw bones. And, the technology continues to advance. In a nutshell, a 3-D printer creates solid objects from digital representations of those objects. ...

In January, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) announced its intent to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The decision came following months of ongoing wildfires in California, which left the company with billions of dollars in liability. The chain of events ...

Tagged with: Business Banter David Kunsch Pouya Seifzadeh

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, now just over a year old, represents the greatest shift in American tax policy since the Reagan years. Yet, for all the press reports, it can be difficult for business owner-operators to take a ...

The recipients of the Rochester Business Journal’s 2019 Women of Excellence awards have been selected. The Women of Excellence awards identify high-achieving women for their tremendous career accomplishments. The women are selected based on their professional experience, community involvement, leadership ...

Main Street Arts is hosting an open house for their After School Art Experience. The program is an immersive art experience for youth, giving them the opportunity to create art in the gallery. Pamela Viggiani, artist and educator, will be ...

Eastman School of Music’s Faculty Artists Series continues with The Cheng-Chow Trio. Alan Chow, associate professor of piano, plays alongside his twin brother, Alvin Chow, and Alvin’s wife, Angela Cheng. On the program are works by Milhaud, Debussy, Copland, Gershwin ...

Cobblestone Players are performing Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods,” which is a playful take on the adventures of notable characters such as Little Red, Cinderella and Rapunzel, whose paths intertwine throughout the story. March 22 to 24 at Cobblestone Performing ...

The Theta Omega Sigma chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Inc. is hosting its annual Youth Symposium, and this year’s theme is A SAFE Place for Our Youth. The symposium will highlight prevalent concerns affecting young citizens such as peer ...

Geva Theatre Center’s Hornet’s Nest—a series of script-in-hand readings with professional actors—continues with Nikkole Salter’s “Lines in the Dust.” The play explores the education system when Dentira loses the charter school lottery for her daughter and must find another way ...

Lies and seduction Rochester City Ballet presents “Dangerous Liaisons,” a story of lies, romance and seduction. The story has inspired movies like “Valmont” and “Cruel Intentions” and the play “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” which starred Alan Rickman. David Palmer is the ...

Julia Roberts to visit in May Academy Award winner Julia Roberts is coming to Rochester in May. Not only will the actress be accepting the George Eastman Award on May 2 to a sold-out crowd, but she will also be ...