Should Rochester taxpayers loan one of the region’s biggest developers $1.5 million? That issue is on the agenda for City Council’s November 14 meeting. Mayor Lovely Warren is asking Council to approve the loan to one of the Morgan development companies for apartments it’s building at the corner of South Avenue and Court Street. The […]
Mary Anna Towler
Mary Anna Towler is a transplant from the Southern Appalachians and is editor, co-publisher, and co-founder of City. She is happy to have converted a shy but opinionated childhood into an adult job. She credits a grandfather for instilling in her a love of politics. And she makes no apology for her liberal views.
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The nation under Trump
Guns, climate change, war: the facts are available. But for much of the American public, truth is what we want it to be.
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Round 2 for city voters in the race for mayor and Council
The Monroe County sheriff’s seat is on the ballot today, as are a slew of suburban seats and a question about whether New York should have a constitutional convention. View this article for links to the rest of CITY’s election coverage.
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Landmark Society shines a spotlight on porches, a roundhouse…
Older buildings can give a neighborhood and an entire city or village a unique character that new developments don’t have – especially when there are a lot of older buildings, as there are in the Greater Rochester area. And preserving the buildings is important, not just because they’re nice to look at but also because […]
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A theater for Parcel 5?
A strong argument for the theater: If you increase the number of people walking around downtown, you increase people’s comfort level.
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Trump, Roy Moore, and the tribes we cling to
The Civil War almost ended our democratic experiment. “And here we are,” writes Andrew Sullivan, “in an equally tribal era.”
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Las Vegas, guns, and the evil of inaction
We knew what we needed to do when we saw the pictures of the children murdered in Newtown. And nothing happened.
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The UR and harassment: learning from the protests
Sexual harassment is an intimidating, often humiliating violation, of our privacy, of our right to determine who we will be intimate with.
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Lovely Warren’s next challenge: uniting the Monroe Democratic Party
Warren has the potential to be an exceptional leader now, and the people of Greater Rochester badly need one.
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Our quest to become a ‘City of the Arts’
We’ve said for years that we’re a City of the Arts, and we have all the ingredients to be one.
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How racist is Rochester?
Zoning codes, employment practices, development policies, voting laws, criminal justice policies: all of these have helped keep people of color impoverished.
