@MedleyCentre’s witticisms on daily life in Rochester injected levity into the dreary existence of doomscrollers everywhere.
David Andreatta
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Irondequoit Supervisor Dave Seeley will not seek re-election
Seeley, 39, called the supervisor post “the best job I have ever held, and likely ever will.”
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COMMENTARY: Twitter is a bar and Trump is a blowhard barfly
Social media platforms are like a bar, where people exchange ideas, laugh, and lie. When a blowhard causes trouble, he gets bounced.
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Mayor Warren pledges funding for ‘bold new era of public art’
In her State of the City literature, Mayor Lovely Warren outlined the creation of an “arts equity fund” and a city arts commission.
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Vaccinating everyone in Monroe County will take more than a year at the current rate
Health officials said Tuesday that vaccinating all Rochester region residents will take more than a year at the rate we’re going.
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Drivers will no longer lose their licenses for unpaid traffic fines
Advocates for the poor say the new law ends a practice that amounted to criminalizing poverty.
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Mike Mendoza is having a moment under the microscope
Unlike his predecessors, who worked in relative anonymity, Dr. Michael Mendoza has cut a high and sometimes contentious profile during the pandemic.
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Rochester’s vanishing backyard rinks
Backyard rinks may be more popular than ever, but milder winters means skating days are dwindling.
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How to build your backyard ice rink on the cheap
There’s more than one way to build a backyard rink. But this four-step process is the simplest and easiest on the wallet.
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When it comes to public arts funding, RMSC is the elephant in the room
Of the $1.4 million that Monroe County allots annually to arts and cultural funding, the Rochester Museum and Science Center receives $900,000.
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If Rochester is a ‘City of the Arts,’ why don’t we fund the arts?
Every year, Monroe County offers crumbs in the way of funding for arts and cultural organizations. Arts advocates say that has to change now.
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After a ‘lost year,’ hope springs eternal
Everyone talks about 2020 as being a “lost year.” But we also gained something from all our losses: perspective.
