We don’t know who is committing this terrorism. But we certainly know who has made hate’s expression acceptable.
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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Alexander to be new deputy mayor
Cedric Alexander, who served as Rochester’s police chief during the Johnson administration, is coming back to Rochester and to city government – this time as a top administration official. Mayor Lovely Warren announced this morning that Alexander will be her new deputy mayor. He is currently deputy chief operating officer and director of public safety […]
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Warren will seek a second term
[UPDATE] In a long-anticipated move, Mayor Lovely Warren has announced that she’ll seek a second term. Given the Democratic Party’s voter-registration domination in Rochester, a Democrat is almost certain to win the November general election. But Warren will first have to face at least three other candidates in a September 12 Democratic primary: former Rochester […]
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Reports focus on RPD’s structure and relations with the public
The five-section patrol structure of the Rochester Police Department is working well, but the relations and trust between police officers and the community need major improvements. Those are the findings of two new reports released this morning by Mayor Lovely Warren and Rochester Police Chief Michael Ciminelli. Together, they address issues that have raised major […]
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Rochester acts to protect immigrants
Rochester officials and area activists are responding with concern to the Trump administration’s immigration plan. The deportations are likely to have a serious impact in Upstate New York, not only in rural areas, where immigrants are working on farms and vineyards, but also in cities, whose residents include refugees from countries the administration is targeting. […]
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Trump’s fact-free nation and democracy’s future
To some Americans, facts don’t matter. And the president is turning the public’s distrust of the media into a personal weapon.
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Politics, violence, and the city’s mayoral race
Violence is not a problem of policing. It’s a terrible, complicated societal problem, and police cannot solve it.
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There’s no ‘quit’ in him: remembering Tom Frey
In one respect, Tom Frey has been out of the public eye for decades. He left his last government position in December 1991, after failing to win a second term as Monroe County Executive. He’s been as active in public service since then as he was previously, but it has been in quieter efforts – […]
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Civic leader Tom Frey has died
Former Monroe County Executive Tom Frey died in hospice care at Isaiah House this morning. The cancer that struck him without warning in November took the life of a passionate, tireless public servant who left his mark on everything from public schools, city sidewalks, and trash disposal to public art and an urban trail that […]
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The risks we face in the next race for mayor
The last thing this community needs right now is major division among Rochester Democrats. But the division is there.
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Trump turns nativist rants into dangerous, live action
If we had any doubts before, now we know: Donald Trump plans to do exactly what he promised.
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For the next four years: watch, protest, and heal
Each of us has to take responsibility for change. Saturday’s marches have to be the beginning, not the end.
