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Six
months.That’s
180 days, and it’s how long Adam Durand will have to mull over his decision to
enter Wegmans’ hen house while he sits in the WayneCounty jail.
Is yellow the new green? Governor George Pataki thinks so. The gov came to Western New York last week to tout a plan to build a new ethanol plant in the town of Shelby in rural Orleans County, near the village of Medina. The plant will make the alcohol-based fuel from corn and be the […]
The planet is warming up. What does that mean for Rochester? The short answer is that nobody really knows. A climate is a complex thing. Change one little part of it and you may change the whole thing — and in unpredictable ways. Still, that doesn’t mean scientists can’t make some sound educated guesses about […]
Hanging on the wall in retired Army Major General John Batiste’s office at Klein Steel is a framed sheet of paper asking: :Who Needs to Know This?” Batiste is president of Klein Steel, a Rochester company he joined in November 2005. And the phrase, which he says is one of his favorites, is a typical […]
The county is at a crossroads. In the next six months, decisions will be made here and in Albany that will determine the direction MonroeCounty’s finances take, maybe for a long time to come. Inevitably, politics will drive whatever decisions are made. This is one case where that could be either a good thing — […]
Second of an occasional series. Rochester has the highest murder rate in New YorkState — and, for a city its size, one of the highest in the country. Overwhelmingly, the crimes are committed by young, black males. Overwhelmingly, the victims are young black males. How, in a city once known for its strong industries, good […]
First of an occasional series. Last week, a grand jury indicted three Rochester men in connection with the March 9 murder of Herschel Scriven, a young minister and church organist, in southwest Rochester. The night before the Scriven indictments, two men were shot in northeast Rochester. On Sunday morning, two others were shot in the […]
Right from the beginning, nobody thought he could be serious. Or at least they hoped he wasn’t. LastmonthCounty Legislature President Wayne Zyra proposed using the local share of the sales tax to cover the county’s Medicaid costs first, then dividing the rest among the city and the other municipalities. You could almost hear the collective […]
Negative press just doesn’t seem to stick to Eliot Spitzer
Just like anyplace else, politics in Rochester are a complicated affair that, when you get right down to it, aren’t really all that complicated after all. Take a bunch of ambitious, outgoing men and women, add the lust for power, sprinkle generously with cash, and voila… you’ve got a crazy, quirky kind of world only […]
From the beautiful Seneca and Highland Parks, both designed by 19th-century landscape genius Frederick Law Olmsted, to Durand-Eastman Park, where you can feel the immensity of that Great Lake, here is just a partial list of some of our favorite parks in the Monroe County (256-4950, www.monroecounty.gov) and City of Rochester (428-6767 or 428-6755, www.cityofrochester.gov) […]
Being a Democrat in rural America, even in a deep blue state like New York, isn’t always easy. The nation’s rural outposts have never been completely hospitable to the type of progressive, liberal agendas that thrive in urban areas — for a whole host of reasons, reasons whose roots stretch back to pre-Revolutionary days. Instead […]
