{"id":345549,"date":"2026-09-13T11:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345549\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T11:52:09","slug":"spotlighting-hispanic-heritage-month-in-n-y-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/345549\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlighting Hispanic Heritage Month in N.Y. state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week on In Focus, Assemblymember Jon Rivera explores how Hispanic heritage is shaping Western New York \u2014 from Latino-owned businesses and cultural institutions to the next generation of leaders.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, Rochester City Council President Miguel Melendez talks about what it means to build a welcoming city, the challenges facing immigrant families and the role Rochester\u2019s Latino community plays in the city\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Orange County Legislative Minority Leader Genesis Ramos talks about her journey from a first-generation Honduran-American to a trailblazer in county government and her hopes for the next generation.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full interview above. And be sure to tune in for a look inside the biggest issues impacting upstate New York on In Focus with JoDee Kenney \u2014 every Sunday on Spectrum News 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week on In Focus, Assemblymember Jon Rivera explores how Hispanic heritage is shaping Western New York \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[52333,7424,9,11,10,49,51,50,200],"class_list":["post-345549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-ctv-in-focus-full-episode","tag-jodee-kenney","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}