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LOCAL Pg 4
- City Finance Committee Cut
Delinquent Taxes
- Police Union Chief at Odds with
RPD Chief
- Monroe County Close to Passing
Cyber Bullying Law
- Upstate Crackdown on Texting
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- Why So Happy?
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Wow. I cant believe former Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson connues to contradict himself
and aempt to play with peoples memories, when we as a community know the truth...
As Mayor, Bill Johnson NEVER stood up to the corrupt Rochester Police department.
Shame on you Bill Johnson for speaking out on it now.
~Davy V.
Great arcle. I strongly feel that we cant change the acon of those that desire and
are armed to kill us. BUT can we begin to educate our people on a protocol that will
reduce the likelihood of harm. Such things like when coming face to face with a law -li
your hands in full sight, get your knees and NEVER answer queson without a lawyer....
NEVER! I know these are unfair and some say stupid...but I see it as a means to shi
the power. If you come at them with a knife, or dig for a wallet -you give them the power
to say I didnt know I was confused if you surrender for the start ...the power changes
~Just Thinking
Hoodie: Criminal Proling or Racial Proling?
(Cover Story, Apr 23, 2012: hp://www.minorityreporter.net/fullstory.php?id=969)
City Teachers Will not be judged on Performance
(News story, Apr 23, 2012: hp://www.minorityreporter.net/fullstory.php?id=970)
Urbanski is a tyrant and a JOKE! All he cares about is pu ng money into his and other
teachers pocket while the children in our community connue to be dumbed down! We
need JUSTICE in this city!
~Mary
I sure hope the school board does their job and hold Urbanski and the teachers
accountable by ring ineecve teachers. I dont have a problem with them giving
bonuses, etc. Good teachers should be rewarded
~Mark
Why We Are Honoring Min. Franklin Florence
(Op-ed by Gloria Winston Al-Sarag, Apr 23, 2012: hp://www.minorityreporter.net/
fullstory.php?id=978)
Bold, Courageous and Commied are just a few words that describe Minister Franklin
Florence. Hes a wonderful model of greatness in Rochesters community life. He opened
doors and created new pathways for success for many. Thank you Minister Florence!
We are all enriched by the tremendous contribuons youve made. Much love, peace,
health and prosperity to you and your family.
~Wyoma Best
Confronng Black Rochesters Cultural Crisis
(Op-ed by Avery Blackman, Apr 23, 2012: hp://www.minorityreporter.net/fullstory.
php?id=977
This voice...the voice echoing the chorus sung by our warrior scholar ancestors will one
day be remembered fondly. Perhaps when the Kneegroe, so-called leaders (bleeders)
come to realize that they have been dened, parcularly by their ospring, as having
focused so much on buck-dancing and pinky pping, that they were merely pawns in the
game. To preside over the dismantling of ones own community speaks volumes to the
soul of a man/woman. A willful, conscious negaon of the fact that ones own thirst for
the aainment of an illusion of grandeur, at the expense of ones own brother...sister...
children...community is at best an illness if the heart...at worst it is an open declaraon
and perpetraon of suicide and an underhanded, nefarious nod to the connuance
of this societys ongoing program of genocide against people of color throughout its
colonies.
~G. Hunt
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City Finance Commiee Cut Delinquent Taxes
Sta
In a move to oset the eects
of low interest rates and high
unemployment, the citys nance
commiee has introduced legislaon
to cut delinquent taxes.
If passed by the full council, the
proposed legislaon would lower the
interest rate from 18 percent to 12
percent beginning in July.
The legislaon will also lower late tax
fees on water bills.
In comments to the media Commiee
chairwoman Carolee Conklin called
the legislaon a sensible move.
Rochesters Mayor Tom Richards says
the legislaon would make it easier
for already-struggling homeowners to
make payments on mortgages.
Monroe County Close to Passing Cyber Bullying Law
Sta
Earlier in the week, a proposal to
create a law that would criminalize
the act of cyber bullying passed the
Agenda/Charter Commiee by a 5-0
vote.
The proposed law led under
Prohibing Cyber Bullying in Monroe
County would protect children under
18 from cyber bulling aacks.
Violators would be charged with a
misdemeanor; carrying a penalty of a
$1000 ne and/or up to one year in
jail.
In comments to the media, the bills
sponsor- Republican Carmen Gumina
of Webster said, Our goal was to
go beyond a policy and actually give
vicms, their families, law enforcement
and school districts a way to combat
this.
Police Union Chief at Odds with RPD Chief
Sta
In comments to the media, Rochester
Police Union Mike Mazzeo shared
that he has wrien a crical leer to
Rochester Police Chief Jim Sheppard
expressing his displeasure with the
departments My Police Department
App.
The App allows people to use their
smart phones to report crime ps to
police. The App also allows users to
comment on o cers which Mazzeo
believe could result in unfair discipline
of o cers.
To further express his displeasure
Mazzeo suggested that o cers report
ps of other city o cials through the
App.
When crime happens, police arent
always there to see it all. In order to
catch the bad guys, somemes they
need a lile help Chief Sheppard said,
For everything that we do as a police
department, we need the communitys
help. This is a tool to help them help us
do our job.
In addion, the chief says its not
just for reporng crime; the police
department also wants to know what
you think about them. We want to
open opportunies for the community
to give us informaon, for them
to comment on our performance,
posive and negave feedback. Give
us ps, he said.
Upstate Crackdown on Texng While Driving
Sta
Operaon Hang Up, which runs from
April 23-29, is a devised plan by State
Police to catch motorists who text
while driving.
During that enre week in April,
Troopers will increase their focus on
hand held cell phone usage by drivers
while patrolling with plans to hand out
nes totaling up to $150. In addion
violators could face mandatory court
surcharges and a deducon of three
points from their drivers license.
In reports to the media, Major Molinari
of the State Police said Electronic
devices have become commonplace
in our lives, but they have no place in
the hands of a driver. Ive instructed
our Troopers to take a zero tolerance
stance.
Recently released data from a Naonal
Highway Tra c Safety Administraon
nds:
Drivers talking on cell phones are four
mes more likely to get into crash
which is equivalent to the behavior of
drunk drivers;
You are twenty-three more mes likely
to get into a crash while texng and
driving;
The Naonal Highway Tra c Safety
Administraon aributed more than
3,000 deaths last year to distracted
driving, calling it a dangerous epidemic
on Americas roadways.
Troopers plan to use unmarked
vehicles to hide their immediate
identy in pursuit of violators. Theyre
called CITE (Concealed Identy Tra c
Enforcement) vehicles.
The State Police are making distracted
driving enforcement a priority, and we
are changing our taccs accordingly to
step up enforcement, Major Molinari
said. Every available state trooper will
be on patrol during this week, watching
for people using cell phones as well as
other electronic devices. Speeders,
impaired drivers, vehicle occupants
who are not properly buckled up, and
other tra c violators will also be cited,
where appropriate.
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Beyonce named Peoples Most Beauful Woman
NEW YORK (AP) People magazine
has named Beyonce as the Worlds
Most Beauful Woman for 2012.
The 30-year-old singer tops the
magazines annual list of the Worlds
Most Beauful in a special double
issue. The announcement was made
Wednesday.
Commenng on her selecon, Beyonce
tells People: I feel more beauful
than Ive ever felt because Ive given
birth. I have never felt so connected,
never felt like I had such a purpose on
this Earth.
Beyonce, who is married to rapper
Jay-Z, gave birth to a daughter, Blue Ivy
Carter, in January.
Shes just the cutest thing, says
the Grammy winner, who sings to
her daughter and claims to love
changing diapers.
Does Blue resemble mom or dad?
She looks like Blue, the singer says.
Shes her own person.
The best thing about having a
daughter is having a true legacy,
she adds. The word love means
something completely dierent now.
Other celebries on the list include
Julia Roberts, Nicole Kidman and
Jessica Pare of Mad Men.
New York City Portrayed Online in 870,000 Images
By CRISTIAN SALAZAR and RANDY
HERSCHAFT
NEW YORK (AP) The two men were
discovered dead at the boom of an
elevator sha in a 12-story Manhaan
building, as if dumped there, one man
sprawled on top of the other.
The rare crime scene photograph from
Nov. 24, 1915, is one of 870,000 images
of New York City and its municipal
operaons now available to the public
on the Internet for the rst me.
The city Department of Records
o cially announced the debut of the
photo database Tuesday. A previously
unpublicized link to the images has
been live for about two weeks for
maintenance and tesng.
Culled from the Municipal Archives
collecon of more than 2.2 million
images going back to the mid-1800s,
the photographs feature all manner of
city oversight from stately ports and
bridges to grisly gangland killings.
The project was four years in the
making, part of the departments
mission to make city records accessible
to everyone, said department assistant
commissioner Kenneth Cobb.
We all knew that we had fantasc
photograph collecons that no one
would even guess that we had, Cobb
said.
Taken mostly by anonymous municipal
workers, some of the images have
appeared in publicaons but most
were accessible only by vising the
archive o ces in lower Manhaan
over the past few years.
Researchers, history bus, lmmakers,
genealogists and preservaonists
in parcular will nd the digized
collecon helpful. But anyone can
search the images, share them through
social media or purchase them as
prints.
The gallery includes images from the
largest collecon of criminal jusce
evidence in the English-speaking
world, a repository that holds glass-
plate photographs taken by the New
York City Police Department.
It also features more than 800,000
color photographs taken with 35mm
cameras of every city building in the
mid-1980s to update the municipal
records, and includes more than 1,300
rarely seen images taken by local
photographers of the Depression-era
Works Progress Administraon.
Because of technological and nancial
constraints, the digized gallery does
not include the citys prized collecon
of 720,000 photographs of every city
building from 1939 to 1941. But the
database is sll growing, and the
department plans to add more images.
Among the known contributors
to the collecon was Eugene de
Salignac, the o cial photographer
for the Department of Bridges/Plant
& Structures from 1906 to 1934. An
iconic Salignac photograph, taken Oct.
7, 1914, and now online, shows more
than a half-dozen painters lounging on
wires on the Brooklyn Bridge.
A lot of other photographers who
worked for the city were prey
talented but did not produce such a
large body of work or a disnct body of
work, said Michael Lorenzini, curator
of photography at the Municipal
Archives and author of New York
Rises that showcases Salignac images.
Maira Liriano, manager of the New
York Public Librarys local history and
genealogy division, said the tax photo
collecons are of parcular interest to
researchers.
For example, she said, homeowners
seeking to restore their historic houses
oen go to the Municipal Archives
to get images of what the buildings
looked like in the 1940s or 1980s.
The same collecon is also used
by people doing research for lm
producons, family historians hoping
to see what their ancestors homes
looked like, and scholars trying to
measure the transformaon of the
metropolis over me.
One popular cache includes photos
shot mostly by NYPD detecves, nearly
each one a crime mystery just begging
to be solved. The black-and-white,
top-down image of the two men in
the elevator sha is a representave
example.
Although it did not carry a crime
scene photo, the New York Tribune
reported Nov. 25, 1915, under the
headline Finding of two bodies tells
tale of the, that the bodies of a black
elevator operator and a white engineer
of a Manhaan building were found
baered, as though from a long fall.
The news report said the two men
tried to rob a company on the h
oor of expensive silks, but died in
their aempt. The elevator was found
with $500 worth of silk inside, stuck
between the 10th and 11th oors.
Luc Sante, an author and a professor
of wring and photography at Bard
College in Annandale-on-Hudson,
used images from the police collecon
for his 1992 book Evidence.
Theyre remarkable. Theyre brutal.
But they are also very beauful, he
said.
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Online:
New York City Municipal Archives
Gallery: hp://on.nyc.gov/IC1ze7
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The Honorable Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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Documented in Americas history starng from the
earliest days of slavery extending throughout the
civil rights movement, the Black Church has served
as the launching pad for an all out eort to achieve
polical and social jusce for millions of African
descendents; living in America.
In her arcle, Upon This Rock: The Black Church,
Nonviolence, and The Civil Rights Movement, Polical
Scienst Allison Calhoun-Brown said Churches have
tradionally been viewed as places of stability and
strength in the African-American community. From
slavery through the long racially segregated history
of the United States, when African Americans were
prevented from building instuons of their own
and precluded from parcipang in the instuons
of mainstream America, churches developed and
contained civil society for them.
In church, one could nd polics, arts, music,
educaon, economic development, social services,
civic associaons, leadership opportunies, and
business enterprises. One could also nd a rich
spiritual tradion of survival and liberaon, Brown
noted.
Whether their leaders repudiated the curse of
Ham, embraced the revoluonary religious vision of
Nat Turner, or preached the more reserved doctrine
that Jesus will x it aer a while, black churches
have always accepted securing and guaranteeing
the freedom of black people as one of their central
missions.
The black churches of the 21st Century is mostly
cricized for their lack of involvement in helping the
community peoned their governments to ensure
the constuonal rights and civil rights of residents
are protected.
A great percentage of black churches in the 21st
Century have leaders that many referred to as pulpit
preachers, unlike a great percentage of ministers
who in the early 1960s into the late 1970s marched
throughout the streets of America in the midst of
imminent danger.
Some religious experts say, The moral inuence of
the church has somewhat eroded because a great
majority of religious leaders of the 21st Century has
chosen to intertwine the gospel with materialism
preaching. Some ministers from the era of the civil
rights movement refer to materialism preaching as
the name-it, claim-it gospel.
Long gone and few in between are leaders who set
the foundaon of the black church such as; Bishop
Richard Allen and Priest Absalom Jones.
The Role of the Black Church
By Rodney Brown
Staff Reporter
Minister Franklin D. Florence
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Long gone and few in between are leaders who
use the church to peoned their government
in demand for social jusce such as; Rev. Marn
Luther King Jr., Rev. Fred Shulesworth, Rev. Joseph
Lowery, Rev. David Abernathy, Rev. Jesse Jackson,
and most importantly Rochesters own- Minister
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Florence.
At the age of 74, Florences dedicaon in his ght
for social jusce for minories living in Rochester
for many was memorialized in 2008, when
Florence along with Minister Raymond Sco and
Assemblyman David Gan led a protest against the
Republican led Monroe County Legislature decision
to elect the countys new public defender using a
closed process.
The three were arrested when they refused to accept
what they described as a social injusce because
the citys minories- the predominant constuency
the new public defender will be appointed to serve
would not be allowed to voice their concerns and
needs by way of a closed hiring process being favored
by the county legislature.
Florence, a young preacher from the segregated
south arrived in Rochester in 1959. At the age
of 25, he was recruited to become the pastor of
the Reynolds Street Church of Christ. He later
established on Plymouth Avenue, the Central
Church of Christ in 1974. He immediately became
involved with endeavors aimed to help improve the
living condions of blacks living in the Rochester
community.
To develop and renew urban neighborhoods Minister
Florence opposed The Model Cies Program,
a federally funded operaon to revive selected
neighborhoods in various US cies. The programs
inial goals emphasized comprehensive planning,
involving not just rebuilding but also rehabilitaon,
social service delivery, and cizen parcipaon.
According historical papers on Florence stored at the
University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries, In
1968 Rochester had three Model Cies projects that
was opposed by FIGHT (Freedom Independence God
Honor Today), a group Florence headed from 1965-
1967 and again in 1968.
In retrospect to the Model Cies project, the papers
concluded In order to ensure meaningful cizen
parcipaon in the Model Cies Program and
equal partnership between the City of Rochester
and the Model Neighborhood Council, 36 vong
members of the council formed Rochester Northeast
Development Corporaon (RNED) as an advocacy
group for the council.
RNED was incorporated August 6, 1969. RNED
addressed housing issues and became involved in
various educaon campaigns. Florence became its
execuve director the following year.
In hindsight, many have come to agree that without
Florences radical advocacy for social jusce, the City
of Rochester would not have thrived to become a
manufacturing powerhouse and a leading choice for
businesses to relocate which lasted throughout the
late 1960s up into the mid- 1990s.
Florences strategy to ensure fair employment
pracces in the city begin with his drive to organize
the community and pledged to help train unskilled
blacks. In 1966 as president of FIGHT his strategy
faced its biggest hurdle when the organizaon
challenged Rochesters largest employer, the
Eastman Kodak Company to expand employment
opportunies for urban blacks by implemenng a
job training program with a set goal to hire 500-600
newly trained black Rochester residents.
Under the pressure of erce protest, Kodak in 1967
agreed to the groups demands. According to records
FIGHT was successful in securing jobs for over 700
people within 8 months of their agreement with
Kodak.
Florence throughout his stay in Rochester was a
person the minority community felt condent as a
leader who would ensure their concerns and needs
were included in decisions that shaped the social
and polical health of the city.
Earl Greene, director for Dispute Selement in
Wayne County, a mentee of Florence said Marn
Luther King Jr. fought hard for racial equality in the
South- Minister Florence was our valiant leader for
racial equality in the North East.
In 2011 Assemblymen David Gan, Harry Brunson
and Joseph Morelle sponsored a legislave
resoluon that honored Minister Florence for his
outstanding achievements in the areas of civil rights
and spiritual leadership. The resoluon was adopted
on March 28, 2012.
The resoluon states:
WHEREAS, It is the sense of this Legislave Body
to publicly recognize the qualies of leadership,
compassion and cizenship in the community of
New York; to state the unquesoned importance of
the humanitarian to the progress of the State of New
York and our naon, as a whole; and to make plain
its commitment to the promoon of these qualies
throughout our society; and
WHEREAS, Aendant to such concern, and in
full accord with its longstanding tradions, this
Legislave Body is justly proud to honor Minister
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Florence of Rochester,
New York, for his outstanding achievements in the
areas of civil rights and spiritual leadership; and
WHEREAS, Minister Florence came to Rochester
from the segregated south as a young preacher in
1959; and
WHEREAS, Minister Florence emerged as a
prominent civil rights leader and advocate for the
black community; and
WHEREAS, Minister Florence was the creator and
advocate for the F.I.G.H.T., organizaon which means
Freedom, Integraon, God, Honor, Today and served
as its president from 1965-1968; and
WHEREAS, FIGHTs mission was to address de facto
segregaon and the social problems that resulted
from it and create employment opportunies for the
enre community; and
WHEREAS, Minister Florence, as president of FIGHT,
helped train blacks in order to move them into the
prosperous Rochester economy, to develop and
renew urban neighborhoods, to create quality
educaon and perhaps most importantly, to develop
polical acvism and community parcipaon
amongst poor urban blacks; and
WHEREAS, Minister Florence, as a leader, creates
opportunies for the community to integrate
Rochester businesses; he opened the door of
economic prosperity to many people who had
previously been denied access; and
WHEREAS, Minister Florence was involved with the
Rochester an-poverty agency Acon for a Beer
Community (ABC) and The Rochester North east
Development Corporaon (RNED); and
WHEREAS, Most importantly, Minister Florence,
who is sll engaged in the ght for civil rights,
connues to serve as senior minister of the Central
Church of Christ located in Rochester, as well as an
advocate for the rights of the poor; and
WHEREAS, It is the custom of this Legislave Body
that those who enhance the well-being and
vitality of their community and have shown a long
and sustained commitment to excellence certainly
have earned the recognion and applause of all the
cizens of this great Empire State;
now, therefore, be it RESOLVED, That this
Legislave Body pause in its deliberaons to honor
Minister Franklin Delano Roosevelt Florence for his
dedicaon and outstanding achievements in the
areas of civil rights and spiritual leadership; and
be it further
RESOLVED, that a copy of this Resoluon, suitably
engrossed, be transmied to Minister Franklin
Delano Roosevelt Florence.
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) The website
that George Zimmerman set up to
help raise money for his legal defense
in Trayvon Marns shoong has been
disabled.
The website www.
therealgeorgezimmerman was no
longer funconing as of Tuesday.
It was created almost two weeks ago
by Zimmermans family to thank his
supporters and to receive donaons
from anyone who wanted to help with
his legal defense.
Zimmerman is charged with second-
degree murder in the shoong death
of the 17-year-old Marn in February.
He has pleaded not guilty and is
claiming self-defense.
A call to Zimmermans aorney, Mark
OMara, wasnt immediately returned
on Wednesday.
OMara has hinted that he will ask
Zimmerman to be declared indigent.
That would allow taxpayers to pay for
his legal bills.
Any income from the website would
make that process more di cult.
Senate: Make it Tougher to Close Post O ces
By HOPE YEN
WASHINGTON (AP) A Senate
bill aimed at saving the U.S. Postal
Service would make it harder to close
thousands of low-revenue post o ces
and end Saturday mail delivery, even
though the struggling agency says
those moves are just whats needed to
reduce its massive debt and become
protable again.
The measure takes steps to help the
agency avert bankruptcy as early as
this fall, through a cash infusion of
$11 billion to pay o debt and reduce
costs by oering rerement incenves
to 100,000 employees. But the bill
sidesteps decisions on postal closings,
buying me for lawmakers who would
rather avoid the wrath of voters in an
elecon year.
The Senate planned to vote as early
as Wednesday on a nal bill, aer
considering amendments that could
restrict the Postal Service from
further cuts to rst-class mail delivery.
Senators agreed on Tuesday to stave
o the closing of rural post o ces for
a year, give communies new avenues
of appeal and prevent any closings
before the November elecons.
The nal bill was expected to pass
the Senate but faces an uncertain
future. The House has not taken up
its own version, which would create a
naonal commission with the power
to scrap no-layo clauses in employee
contracts.
This of course kicks the can down the
road, complained Sen. John McCain,
R-Ariz., who unsuccessfully pushed
for a commission in the Senate bill.
He said the current proposal failed to
address longer-term xes and delayed
major decisions. Well be on the oor
in two years addressing this issue
again, because it is not a soluon.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe
also has cricized the Senate bill as a
short-term answer. Nong that more
people every year are switching to
the Internet to send leers and pay
bills, he has called the Postal Services
business model broken. The agency
has esmated that the Senate bill
would only provide it enough liquidity
to connue operang for two years or
three years.
The Postal Service said Wednesday it
preferred legislaon that will provide
it with the speed and exibility to
adapt to a changing marketplace for
mailing and shipping products.
At stake are more than 100,000 jobs,
part of a postal cost-cu ng plan to
save some $6.5 billion a year by closing
up to 252 mail-processing centers and
3,700 post o ces. The agency, $12
billion in debt, says it needs to begin
closings this year. At the request of
Congress, Donahoe agreed to delay
closings unl May 15 to give lawmakers
me to pass legislaon.
The Senate bill proposes cu ng about
half the mail processing centers the
Postal Services wants to close, from
252 to 125, and allowing more areas
to maintain overnight rst-class
mail delivery for at least three more
years. Beyond the one-year freeze on
closing rural post o ces, the Postal
Service would face addional layers
of approval before closing any mail
facility.
The Postal Service on Tuesday
circulated a smaller list of mail
processing centers that probably would
close under the Senate bill; many in
more rural or small states would be
spared. For instance, centers would
survive in Conneccut, Delaware,
Maine, Missouri and Vermont, whose
senators were sponsors of the postal
bill or pushed amendments, according
to the preliminary list obtained by The
Associated Press. A facility in Easton,
Md., also would stay open. Sen.
Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., previously
aempted to block the postal bill in
protest of that specic closure.
The Postal Service would get an
infusion of roughly $11 billion, which
is basically a refund of overpayments
made in previous years to a federal
rerement fund. The money could
pay down debt and nance buyouts to
100,000 postal employees.
The agency could make smaller annual
payments into a future reree health
benets account, gain exibility
in trimming worker compensaon
benets and nd addional ways to
raise postal revenue under a new chief
innovaon o cer.
An amendment approved Tuesday
would bar the Postal Service from
closing post o ces for one year if they
are in areas with fewer than 50,000
people, unless there was no signicant
community opposion.
Aer one year, the agency would
have to take rural issues into special
consideraon. Post o ces generally
would be protected if the closest mail
facility was more than 10 miles away.
Our post o ces are the lifeblood for
towns across our state and a source
of good-paying jobs in areas hard-
hit by the economic downturn, said
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who
co-sponsored the amendment. This
amendment protects rural post o ces,
with a realisc eye toward the future.
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Books Sandwiched-In program
at Central Library
Time: 12:12 PM to 12:52 PM
Locaon: Kate Gleason
Auditorium, Central Library, 115
South Ave.
My Song by Harry Belafonte
Admission: Free and open to
the public, seang up to 120,
wheelchair accessible
Sponsor: Central Library and
the Friends & Foundaon of the
Rochester Public Library
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Zumba - What It Is and Why You
Should Do It
Time: 4:30PM-5:30 PM
Locaon: Lyell Branch Library-
956 Lyell Ave.
Parcipate in a fun Zumba
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dressed to experience this
super fun and very eecve
dance tness workout. Space
is limited, so please call to
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Flower City Looking Good - May
1 Horculture Workshop
Time: 6:00PM-7:00 PM
Locaon: Campbell Street
Community Center, 524
Campbell Street
Join a free gardening talk
designed to address your
specic gardening quesons.
Subjects include gardening on
a budget, growing plants from
seed, planning a vegetable
garden, raising herbs, and more.
INFO: Michael Warren Thomas,
428-8820
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A Conversaon on Race - A
Process of Discovery
Time: 6:00PM-8:00PM
Locaon: Arne Branch Library-
310 Arne Blvd.
This program will raise
awareness about the impact
of race in our everyday lives.
Building upon the YWCAs
Naonal Stand Against Racism,
with support from NCBI
Rochester
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Your Car, My Life - Smart Driving
for Teens
Time: 5:30PM-7:30PM
Locaon: Monroe Branch
Library- 809 Monroe Ave.
Teens ages 12-18 are invited
to aend this safe driving
workshop presented by the
Injury Free Coalion for Kids
of Rochester. Registraon is
required. Please call or stop
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Annual Community Luncheon:
Its TimE to Grow
Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm
Locaon: Rochester Riverside
Convenon Center
The Center for Teen
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its 2nd Annual Community
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powerful event to support its
growth in Rochester!
Register online by following the
link at www.teenempowerment.
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Registraon deadline is April 26.
Tickets - $50, Table of 10 - $400
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NCADD 2012 Annual Luncheon
Time: 11:30-2:00pm
Locaon: Marios Italian
Steakhouse - 2740 Monroe Ave.
Pleasure Unwoven: An
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Time: 10:00AM-12:00 PM
Locaon: Maplewood Rose
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Driving Park Avenues.
Greater Rochester Rose Society
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STRAIGHTNO CHASER
Orchids and Onions
Orchids: To those
in the Community
who took the
me to come out
and recognize
the contribuons
Minister Franklin
Florence, Sr. has
made to this
community.
Onions: To those
folks complaining
about the price of
a cket to the MFF Recognion Dinner.
Many of you paid $125 for the Roland
Marn Dinner honoring Assemblyman
David Gan and Connie Mitchell so how
exactly does a $60 cket become too much
to consider? The biggest cricism I have
for my community is we nd the money
for concerts, Gucci bags, fake hair and nails
but cry when it comes to paying homage
to an icon. God Bless the hypocrites.
Onions: To all of the Monday morning
quarterbacks who expect people to jump
through hoops for them because they did
not plan or read direcons. A deadline is
a deadline. Some folks think they are so
special that a deadline should be altered
for them; not recognizing there is a reason
for the deadline.
Orchids: To any and all in the process who
selected Bolgen Vargas as the next RCSD
superintendent. Not only do I feel he is
qualied, but felt he deserved support
aer the embarrassing asco took place
the night he and the other candidate
from Texas were to meet and greet the
community.
Onions: To the so-called acvists and
advocates who consistently let the public
know that their egos are out of control.
Their unfortunate taccs somemes
aract a police presence to control them,
and are indicave of the behavior some of
our children emulate. When the behavior
we frown upon from our children comes
from adults claiming they care about
them, it is beyond hypocrical. I seriously
think the mental health of some so-called
leaders in this community needs close
examinaon.
Orchids: To the Fla. prosecutor who was
gutsy enough to at least have George
Zimmerman arrested. I was afraid we were
in for a long hot summer had not that
injusce not been corrected. The naves
were restless.
Orchids: To all the prayer warriors called
upon to pray for a speedy recovery for
Felix Jacobs, more than likely the most
consistently acve parent in the City
School District. His health is improving
and the family appreciates the concern
and support given.
Onions: On top of onions to the bicycle
riders who insist on wearing dark clothing,
riding dark bikes aer the sun goes down.
You are seriously taking your life in your
hands when you dont recognize there are
senior cizens on the road with poor night
vision as well. Introduce yourself to white
clothing why dont you?
Onions: To the sick element that seems
to connue to create a hosle and unsafe
environment for our innocent children.
The number of children disappearing and
kidnapped naonwide appears to be on
the rise. Parents pu ng their children to
bed, only to awaken to nd them missing
is a scary situaon that far exceeds the
kind of warnings we oer our young
ones about talking to strangers. How do
we prepare our children for intruders
(known or unknown) that may enter their
bedroom in the middle of the night?
Onions: To those who dont recognize this
is the me of year when that winter crust
on your feet needs to be removed before
you sck your feet in sandals. And if you
dont have loon, Vaseline always works
on those heels.
Orchids: To the Rochester Black Polical
Caucus Conference that took place
Saturday, April 28. Great turnout and great
topics. Lets put in the work necessary to
eecvely establish our own agenda for
our community. I say it is me to inltrate
and secure black leadership in the local
Democrac Party. We consistently do
good by them, they do lile for us.
Onions: To the challenger to Assemblyman
David Gans seat in the 133rd Assembly
District. I have no problem with the
challenge but do queson the challenger.
Is anyone going to seriously consider
wasng a vote on someone who may not
be able to drive back and forth to Albany
because of restricons on his drivers
license? Last me I checked folks with
DWIs can not legally drive.
Orchids: To Shawn Johnson, an 18-year-old
local Golden Gloves boxer, who may soon
travel to Las Vegas to compete naonally.
His personal trainers are currently his
father Jaleel and Derrick Gramling.
Orchids: To me for nally kicking a 53-year-
old nicone habit. Not an easy thing to do
when harmful chemicals have manifested
themselves in the body. Pray for me.
Orchids: To the rerement of Robert Bob
Brown, business manager from Rochester
Laborers Local No. 435. I am certain there
are many already who miss him. It is my
understanding an o cial rerement party
for him is slated for June 2012. Call the
hall for addional info if interested. I have
been told that Danny Kuntz has assumed
the role of current business manager.
Onions: To all the haters, those who wake
up daily trying to gure out how to make
someone elses life miserable because
they have none.
Orchids: To Baye Muhammad,
commissioner of Parks and Recreaon in
Syracuse, and all others responsible for
the success of their rst networking event.
It is my understanding the event will occur
at least four mes a year.
Orchids: To the Minority Reporter Media
Group (Dave and Pauline McCleary,
publishers) embarking on its h-year in
business. Dont get le out of the gala and
celebraon being planned for September
2012.
GLORIA WINSTON
AL-SARAG
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Gloria Winston Al-Sarag is a Community Activist, Writer,
Communicator, Political Activist. She is a native Roches-
terian and has been involved with numerous community
orgainzations in Rochester.
Contact Gloria at: JazzyG4202@aol.com
Throughout this
elecon year I have
tried to keep you
posted on various
items taking place
that are pernent
to African-
Americans (actually
all Americans).
This week however,
I want to take a spur
trail and talk about
what is happening
as the Rochester City School Board is
searching for a new superintendent of
schools.
What appeared to be an open process
has started to take on something that
seems suspect and therefore should be
monitored by the community.
It has been no secret that the current
interim superintendent, Bolgen Vargas
has a desire to become the full-me
superintendent of the Rochester City
School District. I do not fault him for that,
however, the events taking place around
him becoming superintendent are up for
scruny. The issue that I am referring to
is the budget that Bolgen Vargas recently
released. While it is great that no one
loses their job, when the rst person to
appreciate the budget is the head of the
Rochester Teachers Associaon, Adam
Urbanski, one immediately realizes that it
cannot be a good budget.
The budget that was released by Bolen
Vargas leaves a $14 million dollar decit.
When it was inially discussed I was sure
that there would be all kinds of dismay
at such a budget. However, instead of
dismay, there was joy. Leaving me to
wonder, why is everyone so happy? Why
would someone be praised for leaving a
$14 million decit in their budget? What
appears to be happening is that during the
search for a superintendent, the current
interim superintendent is trying to do all
that he can to not make any waves.
With the abysmal graduaon rate in the
Rochester City School District, the last
thing the district needs is someone that
is trying to ensure they do not oend the
teachers union.
Rochester has to realize the fact that the
city school district is for the students. The
major job is not to keep adults happy but
to educate the students. And at present,
the students are not being educated!
So, the next queson is why hasnt the
school board taken Bolgen Vargas to task
concerning his horrible budget? What
household would receive kudos for leaving
a hole in the budget? Only in government
can this type of lunacy be tolerated and
even praised. The Rochester community
needs to demand that a budget that is
balanced and meets the main objecve
of educang the students in the district is
released.
The school board should scrunize the
budget and make demands of Mr. Vargas
to explain why he is so proud of this budget
and how he would close this budget gap
and the impending gap that is projected
for next year.
It is me out for the status quo to be
maintained in the city of Rochester.
There are large amounts of money being
manipulated, many lives impacted and the
most important element, the educang of
our students at stake.
If the people of Rochester will make noise
in the meengs and more importantly
at the ballot box, the school district will
stand-up and take noce.
Not only the school district but all
policians will see that they can no
longer do things that support them at the
expense of the people they claim to serve.
In my humble opinion, every member of
the current school board that does not
take the Bolgen Vargas budget to task
needs to be replaced.
Also any member that will support the
appointment of Bolgen Vargas as full-me
superintendent should be replaced. Now
is the me for the community to stand-up
and ex its muscle.
I am sharing this informaon with you
so that at the very least you will begin
to queson what is happening in our
community. We have to be educated on
what is going on and be willing to take a
stand. While we may not be able to tackle
every issue ourselves, we have to make
our voices known so that those in elected
o ce realize that they serve us and not
the other way around.
Again I ask, when a budget is submied
that leaves a $14 million decit, why is
everyone so happy?
Why So Happy?
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Tell me what you think; e-mail me at
mvaughn.seniorpastor@newwineskin.org
C. MICHAEL
VAUGHN
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT...
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The Rochester School Board to Parents: Your Input is Unwelcome
AYESHA
KREUTZ
The media has it
all wrong about
what happened
at the so-called
public forum for
the superintendent
search, April 17,
and I hope they will
come ask us about
what really went on.
So far, theyve
only reported the
side of the school
board, and that has been very lacking,
especially of the details the board doesnt
want the public to know about.
For instance, aer Bolgen Vargas was going
to speak, we parents and taxpayers who
dont approve of Vargas ascension to
sasfy the unions because hes supposedly
promised that he will be their yes man
were led to believe that we could ask
quesons.
Before the other superintendent candidate
the one who supposedly had a shot at
the job, spoke the board had people
write down quesons.
From that, the board chose what quesons
to ask the other gentleman and not even
randomly.
Then, they planned to ask Vargas the same
quesons that were directed to the other
man.
In other words, the quesons that we
had for Vargas, who has me as interim
superintendent to answer for, were not at
all going to be addressed.
They took the quesons addressed to the
other gentleman, whom they have there
as a token to the supposed process, and
planned to ask Vargas those. This is just
absurd.
At this point, the parents groups
once theyd gured out that the board
had found a way to avoid hearing their
concerns at a so-called public forum
went up and locked arms, silently and non-
violently.
In a connued eort to avoid having to
hear from the people that pay the taxes
that fund their jobs, the board called the
police and then called for a recess.
The parents waited for their return, only to
nd out that they had moved the session
to another auditorium.
Upon trying to enter the second place,
security guards kept the parents out.
The police on the other hand were cordial
they waved, smiled, spoke when spoken to
and just stood aside with not much to do
as no laws were being broken.
If this is what is considered appropriate in
a free society, then great.
However, if this doesnt sound like the
America weve grown up in, maybe the
public, including members of the media,
should stop sco ng at and mocking the
parents who actually care about the
educaon that their children, who lest
we forget are being deprived of a good
educaon by corrupt policians and
unions.
I nd it sad and disturbing that, even at a
local level, some government agencies are
not as representave as they should be.
In parcular, I want to talk about the local
Rochester City School Board.
I have been really involved for the last
couple of years. Before that, I paid aenon
and showed up at a few things to voice my
concerns, but since we the taxpayers and
parents are regularly ignored and scoed
at, I just went along with my life like most
of us do.
But now that I have seen how corrupt
the system actually is, I cannot, in good
conscience, connue to sit back and enjoy
my lile life as the world around me falls
apart.
When considering the members on the
Rochester City School Board, I have to
wonder if any of them actually care about
educaon, or if they just enjoy ge ng a
paycheck for being in the pocket of the
teachers union.
I know that sounds mean, and I do not want
it to be. I am sure they are good people,
but what are we to think as individuals and
groups when they consistently disregard
us?
Lets take the superintendent search for
example. For the 8 months or so that I
have been personally trying to tell anyone
whod listen about how the process
is corrupt, Ive been witnessing the
corrupon going on right out in the open
and the overt way in which they operate
would embarrass a mob boss.
As a conservave member of the Rochester
Parents United (RPU), I know of no other
organizaons with such a diverse polical
spectrum represented by its members
who sll all agree on the same thing so
vehemently.
Our parents agree that our kids come rst,
and that the school board and the teachers
unions are happy to use Bolgen Vargas as a
tool in their aempts to further corrupt an
ever-failing school system.
I would suggest if you are a Rochester City
Parent you call Ernest Flagler the actual
president of the RPU and nd out more
about them. This is about our children and
the rights of parents.
We at the Frederick Douglass Foundaon
have had a few dealings with Bolgen
Vargas.
Weve also spoken with parents who have
dealt with him, and 90 percent of us agree
that he is just not right for the job, even if
its for dierent reasons.
Now, I have listened to Vargas. I think he is
a nice guy and that his intenons are good,
but what is that saying?
As they say, The road to hell is paved with
good intenons. We do not dislike Vargas
as a person.
We dislike the process and the arrogance
of the school board, in which Vargas
happily went along with.
A while back, the school board announced
that they were looking for a new
superintendent.
In the mean me, Vargas would be the
interim superintendent and would not be
considered for the permanent posion.
Three days later, Bolgen Vargas gave
the unions everything they wanted by
approving a contract that was being
contested for many good reasons.
With the Vargas approval in their pocket,
the board magically tells us that there is
an outpouring of support of Vargas for this
posion.
As a result, they took back what they
rst promised. They re-voted to allow
him to apply for the permanent posion.
How much do you want to bet that that
supposed support came from the teachers
who beneted from his corrupt approval of
their contract which swindles the taxpayer
and puts more money into an educaonal
system that will only connue to fail?
Keep in mind, Rochester taxpayers arent
allowed to vote for or against the school
budget. Coincidence is the explanaon of
a lazy mind. And only a lazy mind wouldnt
see something shy in that.
Then the board told us that they were
going to build a coalion of people and
spend $40,000 to hire a search rm to
make sure that they nd the best-qualied
person.
Low and behold, one of the nalists, that
they spent a year and $40,000 to nd, just
happens to be the guy who was there all
along. Oh, wait, theres also one other guy.
Yes, that is really what they want us to
believe. Its downright insulng. Yet, we
the parents are derided and made fun of
by the media, as if we the parents really
had a say, right?
I mean its just our kids. Why should we
have a say? We keep trying to tell the
board to listen and they keep pushing us
away.
The school board and the teachers union
would love to think that we dont see the
dog and pony show for what it is, but we
do.
They think that, just because many of
us came out of their failed educaonal
system, poor inner-city parents are too
dumb to noce the corrupon of the
process.
The board and the union hand picked
Vargas because he gave them what they
wanted and before that, he sat on the
board for 7 years.
I suppose that is what they would think
since they have failed three generaons of
students already, but we the parents have
had enough.
We want beer for our kids. We no longer
want to be controlled by the system that is
supposed to help us. We no longer want to
help the system keep us down.
And for that, they want to ignore us
because acknowledging our mere
existence means they might lose some of
their power in that they might need to be
held to account for their votes. Wouldnt
want that would they?
I have come to the conclusion that there
are many parents who care and want to be
involved, but they are consistently ignored
and disenfranchised by the same people
who claim the parents do not care.
The school board and the union cannot
have it both ways.
Our frustraon comes from the fact that
the board, the teachers, the administrators
and the government keep saying: We
need more parental involvement, we need
them to help us and to care.
All the while, theyre saying: Hey, do not
worry about your kids educaon. We
know best. Let the professionals handle it.
We didnt even teach you to read properly,
so let us handle educang your kids.
Of course those are lies, and they
inevitably proceed to do nothing about
the problems.
Now you have several groups of parents
who have banded together, and sll they
just want to ignore us.
Did anyone ask: What would drive these
parents and groups to take such drasc
measures?
Did anyone wonder: What is going on
that nally the grassroots movements are
united under one cause?
To Malik Evans and the school board: Wake
up and smell the defeat coming your way.
We are elephants, and we forget nothing.
We will keep reporng on all of this and
will be sure to remind the general public
of your smug arrogance.
In the mean me, I pray that the Lord
touches his heart to stop the hardening
like Pharaohs. There is a chance for
redempon here.
But they need to stop patronizing parents
and start doing the right thing. They can
start by listening to those who care about
our kids and their educaon. They should
be applauding us and not hiding from us.
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