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Media twists, ignores the stories of disabled people
Experts say accurate portrayals of disability are rare as the media often fails to see people with disabilities as part of the audience.
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Super Bowl is unique celebration of American culture (Guest Opinion by Joey Pagano)
Food. Friends. Family. Football. A win-or-go-home scenario. Those are the staples of Super Bowl Sunday, a clash between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles. But this isn’t a…
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Syracuse nonprofit RISE acquires 180-acre farmland in Oswego County, dreams of possibilities
RISE recently received a game-changing, generational gift: 180 acres of farmland in Oswego County, to boost its Syracuse Refugee Agricultural Program incubator farm and some other aspects of its programming…
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Syracuse restaurateur known for soul food now serving scholarships, students
If Dreamer Glen knows one thing, it’s about turning pain into purpose. Loss, grief, and sadness have been constants for the Syracuse native over the past two decades, but she…
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Our Town: Chittenango
A story with the highlights of a proud village in Central New York
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We’re privileged to watch Aaron Judge’s moment of greatness (Guest Opinion by Joey Pagano)
Aaron Judge hit his 60th home run on Tuesday night for the New York Yankees. 60th. That matched Babe Ruth’s single-season home run total in 1927, a record that stood…
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Baseball gives us unity. Jacob deGrom gave us greatness (Guest Opinion by Joey Pagano)
Back in March, I wrote of my frustrations with the MLB’s nonchalance with the popularity of baseball as a sport and obsession with money. But watching as two-time Cy Young…
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MLB lockout wounded baseball — and loyal fans like me (Guest Opinion by Joey Pagano)
Baseball was my first love, becoming the genesis of countless, timeless memories. The crack of the bat, the cheering crowd, hearing Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” after each Yankee…
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#MyDisabledLifeIsWorthy highlights disability community’s pandemic frustrations: ‘We are seen as collateral damage’
"Folks have pushed the narrative of vulnerable people's lives being disposable for this entire pandemic," read a tweet earlier this month. "Rather than ignore people with complex medical conditions, or…
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Essential workers still at bottom of job hierarchy (Guest Opinion by Joey Pagano)
Many workers formerly classified as "low-skilled" were deemed "essential" at the beginning of the pandemic. They're slowly getting the old label back, and it's problematic.
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Even after firing Chris Cuomo, CNN cannot erase months of disregarding basic ethical standards
In the opening days of the pandemic, as I looked for a replacement for sports, I turned to politics and CNN. Each night, I turned to the network, often around…
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