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Alex Wong/Getty Images A protest outside of Jeff Bezos' home in New York will urge him to back a wealth tax. The protests are happening on Tax Day and are run by a group called Patriotic Millionaires. In addition to the protest, the group sponsored billboards in D.C. and New York urging tax reform. "As a millionaire, tax me more." That's the motto of members of the Patriotic Millionaires group, which is organizing protests and mobile billboards on Tax Day encouraging higher taxes for the rich. The three mobile billboards, which feature videos of well-known billio...

WHECTV Created: May 11, 2021 11:15 AM ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC) — The City of Rochester could be getting some extra funding, and Mayor Lovely Warren says it could help fulfill a proposed project to fill in another portion of the city's Inner Loop. New York Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand introduced the Reconnecting Communities Act into Congress. The senators say the bill would aim to revitalize and reconnect those communities that had highways built through them. In a statement as part of the press release sent out about the act, Warren said the following: �...

NationofChange “Too many buses spew dirty diesel. That hurts the workers, that hurts the commuters, that hurts everyone.” U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer joined with Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chair Sherrod Brown brought forth The Clean Transit for America Plan which would invest $73 billion in electrifying public transit.  “Too many buses spew dirty diesel. That hurts the workers, that hurts the commuters, that hurts everyone,” says Schumer.  According to Common Dreams, the plan is intended to not only combat the climate emergency and improv...

In a democracy worthy of the name, the mentally invalid are not judged. But in a true democracy, one is... I expect Arab propagandists to spread such lies. I don’t expect the falsehoods to come from an academic center that was founded by a pro-Israel scholar, and is funded in part by donations from pro-Israel members of the Philadelphia-area Jewish community. The April 20 program is responding to, in part, the ongoing debate over the definition of antisemitism that has been crafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), and accepted by numerous governments and Jewish or...

409-day drought ended: journey to first day of grand jury on Cayuga Nation Police highlights local government hesitancy, federal nonintervention Gabe is the National News Editor and works out of Washington, D.C. Have a tip? Send it to gabe@fingerlakes1.com. The first day of a Seneca County grand jury relating to the Cayuga Nation Police Department has officially ended, but it took 409-days for any sort of government to formally address the violent conflict in a court of law — or any public forum for that matter. Ironically, however, that first forum was a grand jury that started on Tuesday,...