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Americans who follow stories in the media rightly believe that income inequality within the United States has been rising in the past few decades. It is also true that during this same time, economic globalization—which involves the free movement of ...

Awareness is rising worldwide about the scourge of ocean plastic pollution, from Earth Day 2018 events to the cover of National Geographic magazine. But few people realize that similar concentrations of plastic pollution are accumulating in lakes and rivers. One ...

  As a lifelong Republican and a Republican County Committee member for over 50 years, I am alarmed by our president’s actions on foreign trade. His threats and statements about a trade war clearly indicate that he does not understand ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s recent visit to the Great Meadow Correctional Facility highlights the need to crack down on prison contraband and improve safety. According to media reports, the governor has indicated he will release a prison reform plan in January. ...

I moved to Rochester in 1995, making me a “transplant.” The pride for my beloved, adopted home comes from the same wellspring I see present in other transplants. We are experiencing a new phenomenon with younger adults returning to our ...

There appears to be a cease-fire in the trade war brewing between the U.S. and the European Union. After a meeting at the White House between U.S. President Donald Trump and EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, the two leaders declared a temporary ...

I’ve spent 80 years of my life staunchly opposed to marijuana or drugs of any sort—until my aging body became crippled with rheumatoid arthritis. For years, nothing could alleviate the symptoms that confined my once very active self into a ...

Put yourself in this very real situation: a patient is dying in front of you, and she needs an expensive treatment to begin in the next few minutes. You know she doesn’t have insurance. You also know that she lives ...

In its dealings with retailers, American Express (AmEx) routinely writes into its contracts language that prohibits retailers from offering any discounts or other inducements to customers to get them to use alternate forms of payment. Ohio and 10 other states ...

  Nations sell goods and services to each other because this exchange is generally mutually beneficial. It’s easy to understand that Iceland should not be growing its own oranges, given its climate. Instead, Iceland should buy oranges from Spain, which can ...

Big things are happening in Rochester and transportation improvements are playing a major role. Gov. Andrew Cuomo knows that transportation supports mobility, community vitality and economic growth. That’s why he’s making smart transportation investments in the Finger Lakes region and across the ...

  I first visited the Zaatari refugee camp in early 2015. Located in northern Jordan, the camp is home to more than 80,000 Syrian refugees. I was there as part of a research study on refugee camp wireless and information ...

Americans are generally aware of the fact that the coal industry in our country is now in decline. Most of us also understand that this decline has something to do with the environmentally malign impacts of mining and using coal. ...

In 2017 the United States Department of Labor ventured into the financial services industry and ignited one of the most controversial debates in modern times. What became known as the “DOL RULE” sought to heighten professional “standards of care” and ...

Across the country, the sixth annual National Infrastructure Week is bringing together hundreds of organizations and thousands of leaders who are uniting around one message: The future won’t wait. Neither can we. It’s #TimeToBuild. Infrastructure is also the rare bipartisan issue ...