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WXXI Daily News
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Latest Episodes
  • A Rochester woman who has been dedicated to community work for decades is getting a top honor this week, New York state has to tell job seekers what a position pays when they advertise open jobs starting this week, and the union representing striking auto workers is describing its latest talks with Ford as reasonably productive.
  • Families in the Rochester city school district have mixed feelings about plans to close some schools and move others, New York’s Cannabis Control Board has passed regulations that will open the adult-use permitting process to the general public on October 4th, and more than a dozen community members staged a protest in Syracuse after two teenagers were shot and killed by a deputy last week.
  • Families in the Rochester City School District are facing a host of changes next school year, the National Toy Hall of Fame at the Strong Museum in Rochester has announced the 12 finalists being considered for induction this year, and the head of the State University of New York says the fall semester has gotten off to a great start.
  • The Rochester City School District may close 5 school buildings and about a dozen schools next school year, the town of Brighton is working on connecting a series of bike trails and walkways between three major colleges in the area, and a new COVID-19 vaccine is expected to be available as soon as this week now that the FDA and the CDC have given their approval.
  • The NYS education department started off the school year talking about the science of reading on Monday; Hundreds of local General Motors employees are ready to strike if the UAW decides to stage a walkout; and a crushing OT defeat for the Buffalo Bills who were beat by the Jets in Monday Night Football.
  • Dozens of firefighters and other first responders took part in a special 9/11 remembrance event at Innovative Field in downtown Rochester on Sunday, a financial debacle that battered the Rochester City School District 4 years ago continues to dog City Hall, and despite the clouds and some rain over the weekend, a number of people came out to one of Rochester’s oldest festivals.
  • The state’s new ethics commission is debating the language proposed in its code of conduct, the governor says she’s working on a strategy to deal with recent car thefts, and the State Senate’s first public hearing on the rollout of recreational cannabis is scheduled to take place the end of October.
  • Mayor Malik Evans is cracking down on landlords renting properties without a certificate of occupancy, the Rochester City School District and Monroe 2 Orleans BOCES are in line for millions of dollars in funding under the Empire State Teacher Residency Program, and a downtown Rochester ambassador program could be moving forward with money from City Hall.
  • The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory again today for Rochester and Western New York, the state is making COVID test kits available to schools as kids go back this week and cases are on the rise, and workforce development is growing in a market that’s short on labor but flush with cash.
  • Renovations of a significant building on West Main Street in Rochester are finally underway, a new tool aims to use data to create a more equitable prosecutors office, and recent labor victories were a theme at this year’s Labor Day parade in Rochester.