Candidates for public office in New York have filed their latest financial reports, and both Rochester mayoral contenders are raising money at a good clip. Incumbent Mayor Tom Richards started the year with an opening balance of $107,676. He reports contributions of $94,175 and expenses totaling $58,523.83 from the second half of January to July […]
Christine Carrie Fien
I'm City's news editor, which means I oversee all aspects of our news-gathering operation. I also sneak in to an occasional City Council meeting and cover Rochester's intriguing and eclectic neighbors. My family has a long legacy here, and I'm proud to continue to represent.
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Strange encounter in a Rochester parking garage
So this happened yesterday. I was leaving a parking garage in downtown Rochester — putting my money in one of those machines that people seem to have so much trouble with — when I was approached by a parking attendant. (Actually, I’m assuming he was an attendant. I didn’t look closely.) It’s not unusual to […]
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Election economics
City Council President and mayoral candidate Lovely Warren rolled out her economic plan last week during a press conference at her west-side headquarters. | Warren’s plan includes creating a Rochester Industrial Development Agency to guarantee jobs for city residents, pursuing social impact bonds to help deal with Rochester’s serious social problems, creating a small business […]
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Monroe County candidates begin filing petitions
Monroe County Board of Elections, Rochester City Council, Rochester school board, politics, elections 2013
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Warren lays out economic vision; Richards camp responds
City Council President and mayoral candidate Lovely Warren rolled out her economic plan this morning during a press conference at her west-side headquarters.
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Survey would gauge public perception of the RPD
Rochester Mayor Tom Richards wants to hire a group out of Cornell University to study public perception of the Rochester Police Department. The legislation to pay $15,000 to Survey Research Institute for the project will be considered by City Council next month. The legislation’s wording is rather vague, saying that SRI will work with the […]
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Ruth Scott and the rising tide
Ruth Holland Scott remembers sixth grade as a broken string of recesses. Scott’s teacher at her small, segregated school in Albion, Michigan, often slept through class, Scott says — waking only when students pestered her. “The guys would take these long poles that you used to raise and lower the windows and lift the wig […]
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City should’ve cut the mounted patrol
Maybe someone can sell me on the reasoning for keeping the city’s mounted patrol, because I just don’t see it.
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Castañeda out in Brockport
Whatever momentum Brockport Mayor Maria “Connie” Castañeda got from her recent legal success wasn’t enough to carry her to victory in yesterday’s village elections.
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Will historic conversions save the City of Rochester?
The people behind some of the City of Rochester’s highest-profile building projects updated the audience on their plans and their progress at a luncheon put on Tuesday by the Downtown Development Corporation. FILE PHOTO The Sibley building. You should expect to see some action around the Sibley building this summer, said Gilbert Winn, managing principal […]
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[UPDATED] Brockport trustee challenges embattled mayor
Embattled mayor Maria Castañeda is seeking a second term, running against Margaret Blackman, a current village trustee and retired professor of anthropology at SUNY Brockport. Blackman is joined by newcomer Valerie Ciciotti, and incumbent trustee Carol Hannan on the Revitalize Brockport party. Castañeda’s running mates on the Taxpayers First party line are Rick Ross and write-in candidate Kristina Telles. (Castañeda’s original running mate, Danny Blackburn, dropped out too late to be taken off the ballot.)
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Elections: Who’s in, who’s out
Incumbent Cynthia Elliott says she’ll keep fighting to stay on the Rochester school board, despite losing the party’s backing.
