City: CATS CEO Cornel Martin has listed the issues that have to be resolved before ferry service can resume. And on a couple of them, at least, we seem to be fairly close to a resolution. Are we close to resolving all these issues? What stands in the way? Johnson: I don’t know. It […]
Bill Johnson
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A call to action
There’s a crisis in our schools — and the budget’s a distraction When City Council votes on the Rochester school budget next week, odds are it will do what Mayor Bill Johnson wants it to do: give the district $7 million less than it has asked for. One reason is that the city has […]
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Renaissance man
The idea of a Performing Arts Center in downtown Rochester is not new. And Rochester Broadway Theatre League Board Chairman Arnie Rothschild has been a key player in arts-center discussions since the beginning. The initial idea — developed in 1997 by a broadly based task force — was to build a complex with several […]
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Johnson on Renaissance: city was excluded
Typically, when a multi-million dollar development project in the heart of a city is announced, the mayor of that city knows all about the project before the news hits the papers. But that wasn’t the case last week when Governor George Pataki pledged his support for a Renaissance Center — combining an arts center, […]
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The good budget
In a remarkable display of sobriety and honesty, the Republicans in the County Legislature have passed a budget — the first rational one in years. “Rational” may be too generous a word: It’s absurd to cut funding for school nurses but continue to provide police services for wealthy towns that could well afford to […]
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Reader feedback 12.03.03
More election talk, Scott Wallace raves, ferry fantasy
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Reader feedback 11.26.03
Critiquing the transit center, analyzing the Johnson loss
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Reader feedback 11.19.03
The Johnson defeat, ‘pseudo-feminist’ Popick, Iraq and abortion
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Lessons from the Johnson loss
A few weeks before the election, I was talking to a prominent Democrat about the county-executive race. The Democrat was supporting Johnson but didn’t think he was his party’s strongest candidate. Johnson’s biggest handicap, said this Democrat, was the city. The Republicans, he said, would hang the city’s problems — crime, schools — around […]
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Reader Feedback 11.5.03
The Doyle budget, peace demonstrations, bus pleasures
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Are you mad yet?
It’s hard to analyze Jack Doyle’s 2004 budget proposal thoroughly. But having spent a good bit of last week reading it, I’ve reached some conclusions, having nothing to do with whether we ought to up the sales tax to pull ourselves out of the hole we’re in. One conclusion is that at the end […]
