HeyJaredSharon Bailey
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BAILEY: The books won’t move unless we do (opens the original)
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Once upon a time, school districts would occasionally announce new initiatives to diversify classroom and school libraries. That was back when elementary classrooms and middle schools had libraries, and students were assigned actual books to read instead of excerpts, passages, and paragraphs. Parents, educators, and writers, including myself, have decried the lack of representation on the shelves while calling for more authors of color and more stories with characters who look like the students
BAILEY: The book club reset you’re overlooking (opens the original)
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Before streaming TV shows and binge-watching became a thing, watching real-time TV was one of the easiest ways friends and family stayed connected, much like watching a televised sporting event. In the mid-eighties, when I was in college, I watched The Cosby Show and A Different World with my friends. We would gather in someoneâs dorm room or catch the shows on the TV in the common area. Snacking, laughing, and discussing an episodeâs theme and characters reminded me of the same camaraderie
BAILEY: New York is behind the curve, and residents are paying for it (opens the original)
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New York has a blind spot baked into its hazardous-waste law, and some Niagara County residents are living with the consequences. The stateâs Superfund law covers chemical spills, industrial toxins, petroleum contamination, and other dangerous substances that threaten public health, but it stops short of including radiological contamination. Itâs the precise reason why every radioactive-slag property in Western New York ends up in the federal pipeline, and why some families â our friends a
BAILEY: What to a politician is literacy? (opens the original)
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Most people define literacy as the ability to read. But literacy is more than just reading the words in front of you. Literacy also means the ability to understand the context and dynamics of the situation playing out in front of you. Can you interpret the connotation behind an idea? Last Sunday, I visited Frederick Douglassâs grave at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester. I laid a penny on his gravestone, as others had done. It was a small gesture, but standing there, I felt the weight of someone
BAILEY: Niagara Falls should move to a district-based city council (opens the original)
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An electrical panel is the power hub of a home. Each breaker feeds a different room, carries a different load, and no one expects a single switch to light up a home. Niagara Falls is the only city in Niagara County that elects its entire city council at-large. Itâs governed as if its neighborhoods all run on one circuit. It keeps flipping one switch and hoping the whole house lights up. Every seat is decided by the same electorate, no matter where a person lives or what issues shape their neig
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