The Rochester Beacon explores the complex challenges facing Rochester, New York, through narrative journalism, analysis and opinion grounded in facts.

Strikingly, the pandemic did not reshape the regional economy. The distribution of jobs across sectors remained essentially as before, with only health care and social assistance (up to 17 percent ...

Tappon and other staff confirmed by email that the decision to remove the song was based in part on information in a 2017 article written by professor Kyna Hamill, director of Boston University’s Core ...

In addition, no other city in the study rose as fast in the last few years. Since 2019, Rochester’s per-capita homicide rate has climbed from 14th to 10th in 2020 and fifth last year. Of the four ...

Taylor is referring to the community school model, a concept that has grown in popularity since the COVID-19 pandemic. The city school district has more than 20 locations listed as community schools.

So, what would happen if a blast of, say, 100 kilotons (substantially greater than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki but a size, according to Nukemap, that is now common in nuclear arsenals) ...

Yet Kodak’s eventual peril was hardly a surprise: Film’s obsolescence in the mass market was widely anticipated, even if the timing and extent of digital’s takeover was uncertain. Much of the ...

Michael Mazzeo acknowledges the need to embrace change in policing. However, the president of the Rochester Police Locust Club, the union for the city’s police force, stresses that public safety must ...

In the early years of electrification, for example, anyone could enter the market. Every competitor would run its own power line down the street. As the cost of wiring a given block was nearly the ...

A report by Brady, a nonprofit dedicated to ending gun violence, found that of the ghost guns recovered in Rochester, those with parts from Polymer80 rose from less than 0.2 percent of the total in ...