What will be the fate of Hemlock and Canadice?
Krestia DeGeorge
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Designers get their turn at downtown
If you could overhaul downtown, what would it look like? Think back to the last time you were in a thriving, vibrant urban environment. Maybe it was a neighborhood like Soho in New York, a waterfront area like San Antonio’s Riverwalk, or a plaza in a European capital. “What did you like about that place?” […]
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From the new governor: fighting words
Politics Details, details, details. All campaign long, reporters badgered Eliot Spitzer to be more specific about his policy agenda, especially about government reform. Last week, in Spitzer’s first State of the State address, they finally got those details — or at least more than he had offered previously. And while his speech was as platitude-riddled […]
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The new ethanol: hope or hype?
Rochester gets in on the next big thing in biofuels
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Gannett stiffs the D&C newsroom
Media A 14-year labor dispute at the Democrat and Chronicle may be winding to a conclusion. But it’s not the conclusion members of the paper’s newsroom union wanted. In early December the reporters, photographers, copy editors, and other newsroom employees who make up the Newspaper Guild of Rochester voted to reject a contract the company […]
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Slaughter House Rules
A Rochester politician leads the charge to clean up the House of Representatives
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What next? The election’s aftermath
Politics For politicians, the first order of business after an election isn’t figuring out what the results mean for the future of government but what they mean for future elections. And across the country as well as locally, politicians are already looking way ahead. On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton victory-lapped the state in a plane on […]
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Visiting Venezuela: an activist on what he learned
Say what? Hugo Chavez, the charismatic president of oil-rich Venezuela, is one of those polarizing figures whom people either adore or detest. And it’s not hard to guess where many in the US stand. When a coup briefly ousted Chavez, the US was quick to recognize the resulting government. Last summer televangelist Pat Robertson suggested […]
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Washington watch
Election 2006 It’s a strange feeling. Here in Upstate New York, we’ve watched two hotly-contested presidential races unfold elsewhere. By the time we hold our primaries, deep into the national season, the race is usually all but won. And in the general election, Downstate’s overwhelming Democratic enrollment advantage means no one bothers to come courting. […]
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The other election: reforming Albany
Elections 2006 View our State Legislature Chart here! Read our endorsements here! Reform in the state legislature: two years ago it was the issue at the tip of everyone’s tongue. The BrennanCenter’s report was freshly out, chronicling the legislature’s dysfunction in excruciating detail. Making the changes the BrennanCenter recommended became a major issue leading up […]
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Republicans hang tough on the Water Authority
It might not have reached Mark Foley proportions, but for local Democrats, a recent scandal at the Monroe County Water Authority has been the gift that keeps on giving
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Remaking media: the D&C’s hazy future
Media What will the future of journalism look like in this town? That’s a question a lot of people would like to know the answer to, but probably few more so than the editorial staffers at the region’s biggest news outlet. Writers at the Democrat and Chronicle marked 14 years without a contract two weeks […]
