My book is officially, finally, published.
I’ve already said so much about it. I’ll just add: For four years it was my private labor. I can’t wait for everyone to read it, argue about it, interpret it, spill coffee on it and make it their own.
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Reporter; author, “Your Children Are Very Greatly in Danger." Husband & dad. Newspaper Guild of Rochester. Save local news. jmurphy7@gannett.com.
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Update: the Saturday service will be at the downtown Riverside Convention Center.
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News: Rev. Al Sharpton will be in Rochester Friday to eulogize Minister Franklin Florence, his longtime friend and colleague. democratandchronicle.com/story/news/loc
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News: Rev. Al Sharpton will be in Rochester Friday to eulogize Minister Franklin Florence, his longtime friend and colleague.
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Maybe these NHL skills events wouldn’t seem so idiotic if the players weren’t so clearly ashamed about putting any effort into them
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Upstate New York was home to a lot of eccentric religious movements in the mid-19th century, but maybe none as eccentric as the Oneida Community. This looks really good.
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I missed this last week while out of office: Rush-Henrietta hired Barbara Mullen as new superintendent rhnet.org/site/default.a
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The students at Fairport HS asked GREAT questions today. Frankly they seemed a little put off by the sweeping structures of segregation we adults have handed down to them! Thanks for having me!
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Funeral details announced for Minister Franklin Florence, next Friday and Saturday.
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Dallas Morning News union leader: “If we were dealing with the parasites, the spineless parameciums, in Gannett, I’m not sure we would ever have a contract." I mean, I'd have gone with "paramecia," but, yeah!
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Here are schools rather than districts. RCSD in red, charters in green. I've been saying for YEARS that people overlook Early College HS in RCSD. Notable that only 7 schools are >80%.
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NYSED released 2022 graduation rates today. Here's four-year August rates for all local districts. RCSD at 71%.
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bad, bad, bad, bad
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Kahleah Copper is the lone starter remaining from the Sky’s championship run.
The fall from grace was swift. twitter.com/AnnieCostabile…
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“It’s just like with Kennedy and Khrushchev,” Florence said. “You can’t have peace until you get the .45 on the table.”
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All of the rooms in the *Math* department begin with ‘2’, regardless of the floor. Never seen this in any other campus building. I am here for this chaos.
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An update on this: I just learned that Florence's son Joshwyne, who had been in prison since 1991 on a murder conviction, was released in January. One hopes he got to spend some time with his father in the last month.
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Franklin Florence dies at 90. “For him, you were either with him or against him. And man, if you were against him, you had a fight on your hands.” democratandchronicle.com/story/news/202
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Franklin Florence dies at 90. “For him, you were either with him or against him. And man, if you were against him, you had a fight on your hands.”
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Confirmed with family that Rev. Franklin Florence, first president of FIGHT in Rochester and lion of local civil rights era, died this morning at age 90. Full obituary coming shortly.
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan recalls Bishop Matthew Clark as his spiritual advisor in Rome. "He would repeatedly encourage me in that soothing voice, sometimes barely above a whisper, while always smoking a Pell Mell. ... Matthew Clark was a close friend of Jesus Christ."
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Now there's a sentence worth contemplating.
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“School district boundaries are the new redlining” - #BetweenTheLines
#youthvoice #edequity #integrateUS
@EpicTheatr @diverse_schools @PRRAC_DC
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IMO it's not about major brand names but rather the smaller ones that might be unique but can't get space on the shelf. My biggest pet peeve is the six shelves of store-brand coffee with almost nothing for sale that's shade-grown & fair trade.
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Really good story by on Wegman's and private-label sales. I'm one of those that find it annoying at best and ominous at worst, crowding out competition except on its own terms.
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Fjord, cove, gulf & lagoon trying to get those bay votes
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Oh snap! Cream ale in the NYT crossword
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I’m really not one of those “that’s a carry” people but I mean, that’s a carry lol
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“Jim represented the highest echelon of journalists—the kind who care, the kind who write to make a difference in people’s lives, as he surely did.”
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Happy 74th birthday to Jim Goodman
progressive.org/latest/jim-goo
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"Layoffs are the worst for the people who lose their job, but there’s a ripple effect on those who keep them. ... Are you supposed to be grateful to the company whose primary leadership strategy seems to be keeping its workers trapped in fear?"
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Unbelievably good journalism
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In 2022, six unhoused Chicagoans I knew died preventable deaths. My first piece in 2023 is a long story about their short lives. It’s also about the rest of us: the deaths we accept, the lives we don't, & our role in them. chicagoreader.com/news-politics/
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First of all, are we calling this vehicle a bus, and if so, does any one square contain a bus, or just *some* bus?
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The Senecas in the Genesee Valley are “like Jesus in Bethlehem.” Now for the first time in centuries they own land here.
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Update on this: SUNY says its charter schools committee will not consider U Prep move into Irondequoit until 2/23 at earliest - and not until building approval is final. Town hasn't responded to requests on what that looks like.
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“It is imperative not to overlook the lack of trees in many of Rochester’s neighborhoods, particularly those in the city’s northeast quadrant." —A thank-you to of@DandC, whose reporting pointed out these disparities —
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New & exciting: @LandmarkSociety puts Rochester’s trees on ‘Five to Revive' list, citing @DandC reporting. democratandchronicle.com/story/news/loc @ReportingHealth @MaryJoWebster @mleonardmedia
New & exciting: puts Rochester’s trees on ‘Five to Revive' list, citing reporting. democratandchronicle.com/story/news/loc
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From the retreat of the glaciers until the early 19th century, the Senecas and their ancestors called the Genesee Valley home. Now, for the first time in 200 years, they own property here. What does it mean?
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Writing obits of people you know is bittersweet - sweet because it’s a chance to share what made them special. Marilyn was a wonderful, wonderful colleague.
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Journalist, community leader Marilyn Ajavananda dies at 59 - Vale Marilyn. Thanks for the appreciation @citizenmurphy democratandchronicle.com/story/news/loc via @DandC
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UPrep charter school wants to move to East Irondequoit; online petition opposes move democratandchronicle.com/story/news/202 via
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GRADUATING SENIORS: The #ROC Edu. Foundation will be at Central Library on February 21 & 22, from 10am-4pm in the Teen Space to provide a variety of support with your final steps to apply & get into college successfully. Please sign up by Friday, Feb. 17. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI
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I’ve been covering education for nine years. I’ve successfully requested & secured interviews with NYSED officials in Albany maybe … three times?
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