Media A 14-year labor dispute at the Democrat and Chronicle may be winding to a conclusion. But it’s not the conclusion members of the paper’s newsroom union wanted. In early December the reporters, photographers, copy editors, and other newsroom employees who make up the Newspaper Guild of Rochester voted to reject a contract the company […]
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Limiting the pain
Urban journal For many of us, this is traditionally a season of hope. I’m having trouble finding any, though, given the escalating tragedy in Iraq. There certainly isn’t much hope to be found in the report by the Iraq Study Group. The report calls for diplomacy, and James Baker, the group’s co-chair, says we must […]
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Rochester and murder: content to contain it?
Urban journal We’re putting more cops on the street, extending the curfew, holding workshops and forums, having ministers ride in cop cars. All of this to try to stop the killings taking place in Rochester’s inner city. And Bob Lonsberry (who last week was blaming both the clergy and “apparently incompetent” police — his words […]
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‘Community’ solutions
Urban journal County Executive Maggie Brooks has been promoting a sales-tax plan she calls the “community solution.” She’s got her hands full trying to sell it, because city and suburban officials don’t think it’s based on the concept of “community” at all. They’re afraid it’ll take money away from them. Which brings us to an […]
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For the morning after, a somber celebration
A friend of mine put it best: the morning after the election, you could almost feel a great sigh of relief rising up from the country. The polls had shown widespread dissatisfaction with Republicans in Washington, particularly with the Bush administration, but it was hard to hope. Polls can be wrong. TV ads work. All […]
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Why I quit the D&C
Flavor-of-the-month stories seem to take precedence over in-depth hard news.
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Sexual harassment
The XX Files My first creep I grew up knowing this: it’s my body and no one has the right to say or do anything that makes me feel uncomfortable. My mother tried to build a protective wall around me by hammering in this message repeatedly. By the time I was 14 and started waitressing, […]
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Foley, Hastert, and us
As awful as it is, the way Congressional Republicans dealt with the early news about Mark Foley isn’t surprising
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Republicans hang tough on the Water Authority
It might not have reached Mark Foley proportions, but for local Democrats, a recent scandal at the Monroe County Water Authority has been the gift that keeps on giving
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Consumer confidence
A few weeks ago my son, now 13, asked me to take him to the mall. “We never go to the mall,” he said with the wail of the truly deprived. Now, he knows what I think of malls. He knows, further, that I do not even look at them when we drive by on […]
