After decades of neglect and deterioration, two of Buffalo’s architectural gems — Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House and Graycliff — are about midway through multi-million-dollar restorations. The Martin House was the home of a prominent early 20th-century business executive, Darwin Martin. Located in Buffalo’s Parkside neighborhood, it’s considered one of Wright’s most important works. Graycliff, […]
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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Arms and the classroom
To its supporters, JROTC — the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps — is a valuable elective, teaching students discipline and responsibility. To its critics, it is a marketing opportunity for the Pentagon, designed to entice urban, principally minority high-school students into signing up for the military. And, they say, it teaches violence as a problem […]
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Mapping the murders
When Heather Layton read that Rochester had become the murder capital of the state, her first reaction was grief, she says. Then she felt guilt and embarrassment. “I was a little uncomfortable that I had only heard of about six of them on the news, but I had no idea that we had this many,” […]
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The old and the beautiful
Judy Adnepos leaned over one of the vendor tables at the Rochester Public Market’s Garage Sale looking through jewelry, dishes, old blankets, and cut glass. “I’m not looking for anything in particular, but I was hoping to find one of those old children’s rocking horses,” she says. “You know, the ones that sort of bounce. […]
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‘Absolutes’ and abortion
In 1998, Buffalo became a flashpoint in the abortion debate with the murder of Barnett Slepian, a doctor who performed abortions. But the conditions that led up to the conflict were in place much earlier, and abortion was only one of them, says Eyal Press. Press, a New York City-based journalist, is the son of […]
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Sign-up sheet: anticipating a draft
Every day, more than 4,000 young American men register for
the Selective Service. Most of them, says Paul Frazier, do so without any
understanding of their rights, options, and the grave responsibility they have
just accepted.
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Dropped out? Where the students went
Barely half of all Rochester high-school students graduate on time, a disturbing fact that Superintendent Manuel Rivera calls “unacceptable.” But contrary to public perception, that doesn’t mean that the other students dropped out. For the first time, the CitySchool District has tracked students as they entered high school as ninth graders, following their progress for […]
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Brighton tension: is bigger better?
Close proximity to downtown, charming neighborhoods, good schools: Brighton is the kind of community that real estate agents love to hate. It’s red-hot popular with buyers but short on inventory, especially when it comes to big houses. And a Rochester-area developer has set off a tense discussion over neighborhood character and property rights. Michael Millner […]
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A question of competence
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 […]
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‘Time is running out for Darfur’
Darfur activist Mohamed Yahya: Touring the country to build
support
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Being watched
Withdrawing money from your ATM, driving on I-590, ordering fast food, making a quick stop at the liquor store on the way home: private moments are becoming more public than you might think. You’re being taped — and it’s happening so unobtrusively that you’re probably not aware of it. What’s more, it’s legal, and it’s […]
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Welcome to the ‘burbs
Rochester owes much of its development and prosperity to the GeneseeRiver, which cuts a path right down the center of the city. In the early days, many of the neighborhoods in the city, as well as suburban villages, began as small settlements that depended on the river to receive and sell goods. Certain types of […]
