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Music icon Whitney Houston will her life, made into a movie. The film, titled “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” will have Pat Houston (Whitney Houston’s sisters-in-law) and Clive Davis (who discovered Houston), working together on producing the bio pic. In statement released “The Estate of Whitney Houston is more than elated to be involved with […]

3d rendering, America - Usa. Photorealistic globe with lots of details.(3D terrain and clouds, city lights, reflective oceans...)Source maps are courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory Blue Marble project, for geographical boundaries:http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=73776Credit: Reto Stöckli, NASA Earth Observatoryhttp://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=79765Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmonhttp://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=73934Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Image by Reto Stöckli (land surface, shallow [...]

On Monday, April 6, a local Rochester member of the community and registered nurse, Olivia Goodwin, started orientation for her new role treating COVID-19 positive patients who require long-term care in Milford, New Jersey. Goodwin has been a registered nurse for the last four years in primarily operating environments. She previously worked at Rochester General […]

Christian Smalls, a black Amazon warehouse worker, was fired after he led a walkout of many employees at Amazon’s distribution warehouse in Staten Island. Amazon insists that Smalls was not fired because he led the protest, but because he violated a company policy that imposes a 14-day quarantine on employees who come in contact with […]

As the self-dubbed “people’s lawyer,” Letitia James pledged in her 2018 campaign for Attorney General of New York that “I am not about privilege or politics. I’m about people … I won’t stop working for you.” In the past couple of months, as the spread of the coronavirus pandemic has severely impacted New York, her […]

Many local governments across the United States are trying different methods to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus. In some places big corporations like Walmart, Target, and Costco’s are not allowing the sale of nonessential goods. Local governments are instructing them to either not stock or rope off certain areas in their store that has […]

Senator Chuck Schumer is pushing a new initiative called the “Heroes Fund.” The program is a push for higher pay for all frontline employees working during the COVID-19 pandemic. Senator Schumer is pushing for the proposal to get all essential workers in New York State including healthcare & grocery store employees to get a pay […]

On Monday, March 30, President Donald Trump explained during an afternoon press conference that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved late Sunday night a new disinfection device designed by Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, that has the ability to clean approximately 120,000 N95 masks per day. The FDA had previously placed restrictions on […]

Local pharmacies have joined many others across the state to offer a new medication delivery service to the public to slow the spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus. The service is completely free and available to any New York resident as long as they don’t need a medication that requires refrigeration or special handling or […]

On Thursday, April 2, several media outlets, including CNN and The Hill, obtained a Democratic House Ways and Means Committee memo that outlined how some Americans might not receive their stimulus funds for 20 weeks or five months from some time in May. Although Treasure Secretary Steven Mnuchin originally advised the public that the initial […]