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Marching on to war New York’s Democratic senators sided with President Bush last week, giving him the authority to wage war against Iraq when he wants to. But three Rochester-area members of the House of Representatives put up a fight.             Both Senators Hillary Clinton and Charles Schumer voted yes on the joint resolution to […]

Kozol does his homework A few days before the beginning of the school year, on September 3, National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol was in town, addressing an assembly of teachers and support staff for the Greece Teachers Association. Kozol, the author of Death at an Early Age and Savage Inequalities, has been an outspoken […]

The early worm and his Bird During the week, Tom Pethic is a substance abuse counselor on the adolescent team at the Brighton outpatient branch of Park Ridge Chemical Dependency Services. But every Sunday, from 6 to 11 a.m., you’ll find him behind the microphone as host of Artistry in Jazz, one of the finest […]

The R.A.T.S. pack Are you between the ages of 20 and 29? Are you sick of sitting home, pulling bongloads, and playing Sega until your thumbs bleed? Tired of the bar scene? Wish you could meet and mingle with people your own age without flunkies from the Zone showing up and trying to give you […]

The
greeting card industry is a $7 billion monster that commodifies human emotions
into trite sentimentality. At least that’s how local entrepreneur and wise guy
Tom Rusling sees it.