our longtime elected officials who have dealt with some of Rochester’s most serious challenges left office at the end of the year.
Tim Louis Macaluso
I was born and raised in the Rochester area, but I lived in California and Florida before returning home about 12 years ago. I'm a vegetarian and live with my husband and our three pugs. I cover education, health care, and local politics for City.
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RCSD’s dash to place students from Puerto Rico
The Rochester City School District has enrolled 482 new students from Puerto Rico since Hurricane Maria struck the island in September, and school officials are preparing for as many as 1,000 total by the end of the school year. “When you really think about it, 482 students, that’s a school,” says Carlos Garcia, assistant to the […]
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UR DREAMers plea for help
Raul Ramirez is an undergraduate student at the University of Rochester, where he’s majoring in gender, sexuality, and women’s studies. He hopes to go on to nursing school and eventually pursue a career in family medicine for the LGBTQ community, he says. But his plans may get derailed. Ramirez applied for Deferred Action for Childhood […]
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Warren appoints Curtin as city’s corporate lawyer; Curran retiring
Brian Curran, the city’s corporation counsel, will retire from his position on December 31, 2017. Mayor Lovely Warren has appointed Tim Curtin as his replacement. Curtin, who is currently deputy corporation counsel, will start on January 1, 2018. Curtin was bond counsel for the city from 1994 to 2015 when Warren made him deputy corporation […]
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School 41 to close and a new school to open in its place
Rochester City School District officials decided, at a meeting earlier this week, to close School 41 and re-open a new school in the same location
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Perspectives: Cedric Alexander on police and the community
Cedric Alexander’s office is sparse and uncluttered. There are the usual mementos, awards, and framed diplomas you find in most executive offices. The American flag stands behind his desk, and a black and white photo of him sitting near President Obama is strategically placed on a shelf, as if to oversee what goes on in […]
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Republicans’ housing shakedown
President Trump promised that an overhaul of the tax code would make it simpler for everyone to file their taxes and that it would mostly benefit the middle class. But critics say the Republican tax plan that’s moved through the House and seems poised to pass the Senate is far from friendly to working and […]
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Researchers warn of a major Parkinson’s increase
A pandemic is typically seen as an infectious disease that spreads easily across geographic boundaries, often having a worldwide impact. Influenza and HIV are prime examples. But Dr. Ray Dorsey, a neurologist with the University of Rochester Medical Center, and Dr. Bastiaan Bloem, with Radboud University Medical Center in the Netherlands, are warning public health […]
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No city loan to Morgan
City Council rejected a proposal yesterday for a $1.5 million loan to developer Robert Morgan for a residential project at 103 Court Street at South Avenue. In a 5-to-3 vote, Councilmembers Loretta Scott, Jackie Ortiz, Matt Haag, Molly Clifford, and Carolee Conklin voted against the measure. Voting for it: Elaine Spaull, Dana Miller, and Adam […]
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East students find that friendship is round
It’s just before 8 a.m. at East Lower School, and the hallways of the sprawling school are fairly quiet. East Lower is the junior high school the University of Rochester created at the former East High in 2015. About a dozen students in teacher Amanda Donovan’s sixth-grade class begin their day with a peace circle, […]
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School 41’s future uncertain
The Rochester school board is once again faced with the question of what to do with one of its lowest performing schools. School 41, in the Kodak Park area, was one of two statewide that didn’t meet performance goals last year. (Buffalo school district’s Build Academy was the other.) Last week State Education Commissioner MaryEllen […]
