Walking into Dicky’s for the first time in five years, I thought I stepped into a wormhole. Nothing had changed since that night in ’97 I’d last left there after losing at darts, drunk. I wandered from the bar to the tables in the back, searching for some sign of time’s passage. There was […]
Chris Busby
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Fear and loathing in the County Legislature
An air of jubilation swept through the chamber of the Monroe County Legislature in the final hour of November 12. Nineteen lawmakers from both parties had voted to override County Executive Jack Doyle’s line-item veto of a bipartisan budget. The plan that passed raised the property tax rate almost 2.5 percent in order to restore […]
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…same as the old boss
After a contentious redistricting process and an election notable mostly for its lack of contention, Monroe County voters sent the same crew of state senators and assembly members back to Albany. No incumbent state legislator from the area lost his or her job, despite widespread frustration over the lack of progress our representatives have made […]
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Congressional District 29: Rachel Treichler
As rich Republican congressmen go, Amo Houghton’s not such a bad guy. The former CEO of Corning Glass, Inc., has served a sprawling district in the southern tier since 1987. Redistricting has added Pittsford and parts of Perinton and Brighton to his domain, so we wanted to get to know him a little bit. […]
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Desperately seeking Dick
When the candidates for congressional seats representing parts of Monroe County came in for interviews, we barraged them with a stream of tough questions: “Do you support an invasion of Iraq?” “How can the US create peace between Israelis and Palestinians?” “Should Medicare cover prescription drugs?” But the last question was by far the […]
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Congressional District 25: No endorsement
Politically progressive people in Webster and most parts of Penfield and Irondequoit must be mourning the fact that Congressional redistricting took them out of liberal Democrat Louise Slaughter’s 28th District. They’re now in the dark realm known as conservative Republican James Walsh’s 25th District. Walsh, who’s running for an eighth term this year in […]
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Congressional District 26: Ayesha Nariman
Republican Congressman Tom Reynolds has plenty of time outside his legislative schedule to schmooze with wealthy donors on the golf course and feast with fat cats at fundraising dinners. The two-term Erie County Congressman, whose new district includes most of Greece and the southern slice of Monroe County, is charging to the front of the […]
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Congressional District 28: Louise Slaughter
The race for the 28th Congressional District pits eight-term Democratic incumbent Louise Slaughter of Fairport, who’s also running on the Working Families Party line, against Henry Wojtaszek, the City Attorney of North Tonawanda, who’s campaigning on the Republican, Independence, and Conservative party tickets. Political and regional concerns will likely determine most District 28 voters’ […]
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Like flies on sherbet
I first heard the buzz about Barfly from a bartender at Lola, the bistro on Monroe Avenue. It had opened the night before, he said, and a swarm had formed for the occasion. That’ll happen when a hip hangout drops on the scene, especially at East and Alexander. Lola and Barfly are both owned […]
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Endorsements
Given the mess that is New York’s state government, voters might wonder whether there’s any point in voting in state races on November 5. A representative democracy this is not. Republicans have a stronghold on the Senate, the Democrats on the Assembly, and leaders of both are not only content to keep things that […]
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Voters’ guide 2002
Welcome to City‘s 2002 voters’ guide. In this issue, we meet most of the candidates for seats representing Rochester and its surrounding suburbs in the New York State Senate and Assembly. Next week, we’ll see what Congressional candidates vying to represent parts of Monroe County have to say for themselves, and make more fun of […]
