City news staff

City Council is scheduled to vote on legislation to sell the first chunk of land to Edgewater Resources for redevelopment of the Port of Rochester. The project has faced opposition throughout, with some Charlotte residents saying that Edgewater’s plans are too dramatic for the port area.  Council will consider the sale of 1.26 acres of […]

The Monroe County Legislature will vote on County Executive Maggie Brooks’ 2015 budget proposal on Tuesday. The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at the County Office Building, 39 West Main Street. The $1.2 billion plan is certain to pass. If the proceedings are anything like past budget votes, Democrats will introduce a handful […]

George Douglass, Take Back the Land Rochester, and other community members will hold a nonviolent community eviction blockade at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, December 2, to keep Douglass in his home. The blockade will take place at Douglass’s home, 95 Roxborough Road. Douglass and other community members say that they are willing to risk arrest […]

Legislators will review County Executive Maggie Brooks’ 2015 budget proposal in committee meetings this week. Brooks presented the plan last week. She told legislators that the $1.2 billion spending plan keeps the county property tax rate frozen at $8.99 per $1,000 assessed value. But the proposal also cuts funding the county for child day care […]

Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks will release her 2015 budget proposal sometime this week — possibly at Wednesday’s County Legislature meeting. The county charter says she has to present it on or before November 15. Brooks has said little about the proposal, which is not unusual. It’ll probably account for around $1 billion in spending […]

Earlier today we posted a story about the Rochester City School District and the professional evaluations of its high school principals. In that story, we reported that central office administrators consciously documented false information. That is an inaccurate statement, and we apologize.  Regarding the rest of the story: there is a disagreement between the leadership […]

Wow! The race that almost no one took seriously turned out to be the shocker of the evening. It looks like longtime Democratic incumbent Representative Louise Slaughter may have managed to win a 15th term in a fight for New York’s 25th Congressional District. But her win is by the slimmest of margins. Just 582 […]

Tuesday is Election Day, and there are Congressional, state, and local offices on the ballot. The biggest election, of course, is New York governor. Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo is seeking re-election against Republican Rob Astorino, Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, and Libertarian Party candidate Michael McDermott. And there are three proposals on the ballot: one […]

Residents of the neighborhoods near Highland Hospital will get a better look at a proposed hospital addition at a 5:30 p.m. meeting today (Monday, October 20) in the Olmsted Lodge in Highland Park. Residents will see preliminary designs for a two-story, 30,000-square-foot addition that would be built off the back of the hospital on what […]