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 […]
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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‘We have to get involved’
March marks the third anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq, a war that bears troubling similarities to the Vietnam War. In the buildup to the war, peace activists all over the world tried to persuade the Bush administration not to attack Iraq. Rochester’s Doug Noble was one of them. Now, Noble is helping coordinate […]
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Crossing the Genesee
Photographs by Gary Ventura Sitting in a small green flatbed boat, John Morehouse says he has become pretty good at running construction crews back and forth between the land where materials for the new Troup-Howell Bridge are unloaded and stored and the construction barges floating out on the river. Navigating the Genesee is trickier than […]
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God, Grades, and the Gospel
Peg Rawcliffe looks out at her 6th-grade science class. “Who can tell me Newton’s second law of motion?” she asks. Instantly, hands go up. Students’ answers come faster than she can write. “That’s right, very good,” she says. “It’s easier to change the speed and direction of a lighter object than a heavier one. Very […]
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Board seat on hold
The Rochester School Board is still one member short. At a special meeting on January 24, the board’s six current members couldn’t agree on a replacement for Darryl Porter, who has joined the Duffy administration. If they can’t select a new board member by February 4, under state law board president Domingo Garcia has the […]
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Counting to Four
During her successful campaign for a seat on the Rochester School Board last fall, Cynthia Elliott promised to shake things up. She said the board has been too passive, and she supported mayoral candidate Wade Norwood, who wanted to have the superintendent report to the mayor instead of the School Board. At the board’s organizational […]
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Hope, fear, and politics
For millions of people suffering with debilitating injuries and serious diseases like diabetes and Parkinson’s, stem cell research offers hope. But as promising as the research is, it is also polarizing. And the Bush administration has taken a non-scientific view of stem cell research and turned it into public policy. At the University of Rochester, […]
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For some city schools: major upgrades sought
Most of Rochester’s schools — like MonroeHigh School, above — are more than 50 years old. (The school district has not released the list of school improvements it wants.) The number of children attending Rochester schools is dropping, a trend that appears likely to continue through the decade. Given that fact, the district will need […]
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The Vatican Jumps From Sex Scandals to Sex Documents
Last week, the Vatican gave its most aggressive response to date to the molestation scandals that rocked Catholic dioceses across the country. It strengthened its opposition to homosexuality and banned gays from joining the priesthood. Ending months of rumors and leaks, the Vatican released a document saying that homosexual priests are a detriment to the […]
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Frontier woman: the Genesee Valley’s ‘white Seneca’
She is known as “The White Woman of the Genesee,” a frontier-family’s daughter who was captured by Native Americans and lived the rest of her life as one of them. Although not well known nationally — not like Martha Washington or Sakagawea — for some Upstate New Yorkers, hers is a cherished, captivating story. And […]
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Looking for allies
Even with the doors shut, the sound of excitement from the meeting room roared out into the hallway. More than 100 people — students and their families — were gathered inside, applause and laughter rising above the clatter of a screeching microphone as students walked to the front of the room, accepted awards, and posed […]
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Change comes to the School Board
Although it’s received less attention than City Hall, there’ll be big differences on the Rochester School Board starting January 1. Newcomers Cynthia Elliott and Tom Brennan will replace two veterans on the seven-member board: Jim Bowers and Rob Brown. The board will remain completely Democratic, but that doesn’t guarantee peace. There’ve been no big, public […]
