Legislation would curtail authority of the county executive to appoint a cabinet
David Andreatta
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He won. What does Adam Bello do now?
Answer: He tries to do what no Democrat has done in over 30 years – form a county government in less than two months
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Adam Bello defeats Cheryl Dinolfo in Monroe County Executive Race
Adam Bello, the 39-year-old Democrat who ran for Monroe County executive on the notion that “our community needs a government as good as its people,” persuaded enough of them to elect him to the office Tuesday. His victory over the incumbent, Cheryl Dinolfo, brings to an end 27 years of Republican rule in the office […]
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Mid-day voter turnout up
Twenty-one percent of registered voters in the county had cast a ballot by 2:30 p.m., according to a sampling of election districts.
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Why does Monroe County have so many legislators?
County residents vote for 29 seats on Tuesday. The question is: Do we really need them all?
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Early voting ends with nearly 13,900 ballots cast in Monroe County
The total represents about 3 percent of the county’s registered voters.
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Monroe County unions cry foul over HR email
A campaign ad for Cheryl Dinolfo greeted county workers who clicked on a link from their HR director.
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Monroe County Jail phone call prices to plummet
With a balance of $3.4 million, the Monroe County Jail “Telephone Trust Fund” has enough to let inmates make phone calls for free.
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Photographing Rochester one pay phone at a time
For most people, pay phones are obsolete. But they remain a lifeline for the poor, and photographer Eric Kunsman is documenting what’s left of them in Rochester.
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CITY to end political endorsements
A better approach during campaign season is to thoughtfully report on and analyze individual issues and policies. Readers need to be informed. CITY can help in that regard.
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Accused ex-D&C newspaper carrier supervisor once arrested for groping paperboys
A late supervisor of Democrat and Chronicle newspaper delivery carriers, who was accused in a recent lawsuit of sexually abusing a paperboy in the 1980s, was arrested in 1987 on suspicion that he was groping paperboys in a Greece doughnut shop. Jack Lazeroff, the supervisor, was charged with disorderly conduct, a violation, according to the […]
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When opportunity zones knock . . .
Investing in opportunity zones sounds like a win-win.
But there is some evidence thus far that the investments could end up doing little more for Rochester than enriching the people running the funds.
