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Housing Authority shakeup gets ugly
George Moses, chair of the Rochester Housing Authority, clearly had one idea of how today’s press conference would go. He would read a prepared statement, and then take limited questions on why the RHA board voted to dismiss Alex Castro as the Housing Authority’s executive director — limited because he could not discuss personnel or […]
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Warren wants answers on RHA dismissal
Mayor Lovely Warren is demanding answers about a recent shakeup at the Rochester Housing Authority. Last week, RHA board members ousted executive director Alex Castro and picked City Council member Adam McFadden to take his place. At the time, the reasons for Castro’s termination weren’t clear. Today, in a terse letter to board chair George […]
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WEEK AHEAD: Open-air drug markets, O’Flynn raise, day care cuts
Rochester City Council member Adam McFadden will hold a public forum to discuss open-air drug markets at 6:30 p.m on Wednesday, December 4, in Council Chambers at City Hall, 30 Church Street. McFadden has proposed legislation to create drug-free zones in the city. The legislation would create a new section of City Code to prohibit loitering […]
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Alex White responds to proposal to create drug-free zones in the city
Green Party mayoral candidate Alex White says that a proposal by City Council member Adam McFadden to create drug-free zones in the City of Rochester is misguided and would create “rights-free zones” instead. White held a press conference outside City Hall this morning to denounce McFadden’s legislation, which first surfaced at Council’s Public Safety Committee […]
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McFadden introduces legislation to create drug-free zones in Rochester
In some places, people line up for a Friday night fish fry. In Rochester, there is at least one neighborhood where people line both sides of the street on Friday nights to buy drugs.
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Choosing a mayor in a challenging time
For anyone who follows Rochester politics, there was little doubt that City Council President Lovely Warren would run for mayor. The only question was when. Last week we found out: it’s now. And so we will have incumbent Tom Richards, a 69-year-old white male lawyer and former corporate executive, and Warren, a 35-year-old African-American woman […]
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Signs missing
Each one of the 31 red-light cameras in the City of Rochester is supposed to have an accompanying sign posted nearby, warning motorists of the presence of the cameras. But at a meeting last week, City Council members Adam McFadden and Elaine Spaull said they’ve noticed red-light intersections without signs. “We were told they all […]
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Mayor has to win over Council on truancy effort
There were a few oddly intimate moments during yesterday’s City Council committee meetings. Council has to decide whether it’s willing to chip in $15,000 for a new, cooperative truancy effort with the Rochester school district and the United Way. Mayor Tom Richards supports the program, but had a tough time convincing two of the three […]
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Fights return downtown
The Rochester Police Department and city and school district officials thought they found a way to stop young people from gathering to fight — or to watch a fight — in the Liberty Pole area downtown. Changes were made to the busing situation last year to reduce the number of young people downtown at peak […]
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How it feels to get shot
Like many US cities, a steady appetite for gun violence has gripped Rochester for decades. Getting shot and living to tell about it puts people in a certain kind of club. At first, City Councilman Adam McFadden did not want to be identified in this story of what it feels like to be a victim […]
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Go figure
Common sense suggests respected incumbents won’t lose the endorsement of their party unless something goes really wrong. But common sense and politics don’t always mix. When South District City Councilmember Tony Thompson recently failed to gain the Democratic Party’s nomination to run for a second term, it wasn’t by a sliver. It was […]
