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  • Ministers Want Funeral Cap Removed

    04/14/2006 8:25:50 AM PDT · by PissAndVinegar · 17 replies · 629+ views
    www.rnews.com ^ | Apr 14, 2006 | Anthony Pascale
    Several Rochester ministers are calling on County Executive Maggie Brooks to reconsider a reduction in funding for funerals for the poor. Monroe County once picked up most of the bill for those who could not afford a funeral for their loved one. In March, the county started capping its funeral assistance at $1,250. Local ministers said that they are now being forced to help bury the poor. "It also smells like a little bit of racism because we know, now I don't think it was intended, but we know that most of those at the bottom of the economic scale...
  • Correct (Politically) Community College

    05/14/2004 3:04:46 PM PDT · by Palai · 9 replies · 382+ views
    Campus Report ^ | 05/13/2004 | Malcolm A. Kline
    Cary, N.C.—Renegade professors and serious students hoping to buck the politically correct trend that engulfs academia and makes shared knowledge an endangered species may not find much refuge in their local community college. Dr. Michael Filozof certainly found no sanctuary at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York. Married, with one daughter, the tenure-track political science professor at the school now faces imminent unemployment as a result of a scurrilous whispering campaign by two professors who found his political views (support for President Bush and for U.S. troops in Iraq) hard to take. When Dr. Filozof placed an American flag...