Tod Laursen, new Chair of AIM Photonics Leadership Council, said there is the potential for more than $300 million in funding for the next seven years.
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After cryptic tweet, Bob Duffy clams up
Nothing deleted from social media is ever truly gone, as former Rochester mayor Bob Duffy is finding out. On Super Bowl Sunday, February 7, @BobDuffyRBA sent a tweet he called “Note to candidates.” In it, he advised candidates to stop talking and start practicing their faith. “Actions speak louder than words,” he wrote. This prompted […]
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Duffy gets photonics institute appointment
Rochester Business Alliance CEO Bob Duffy will lead one of the major committees overseeing AIM Photonics, the federal integrated photonics manufacturing institute that’s based in Rochester. SUNY Polytechnic Institute, one of the partners in the Department of Defense-backed institute, announced Duffy’s appointment as chair of the AIM Photonics Leadership Council today. The Council sets “the strategic […]
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Frankel weighing second county exec bid
A few names have been circulating as potential Democratic county executive candidates for the 2015 election: former Brighton Supervisor Sandra Frankel, former District Attorney Mike Green, and Lieutenant Governor Bob Duffy. Yesterday, Duffy was tapped to serve as the new CEO of the Rochester Business Alliance — a job he’ll start in January. If Duffy […]
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Will Duffy return to Rochester?
The rumor that Bob Duffy will depart the Cuomo administration to head the Rochester Business Alliance when current RBA leader Sandra Parker retires at the end of the year is sprouting legs. Neither Duffy nor Cuomo have done anything to quash the speculation. Instead, Duffy’s refusal to discuss it has stoked the buzz into a […]
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Officials tout Eastman Business Park agreement
Kodak’s bankruptcy filing generated a lot of questions, and some legitimate worries about the future of the Eastman Business Park on West Ridge Road. But some answers are starting to emerge, leaving state and local government and elected officials, as well as business park tenants, more confident in the facility’s future. Some of those answers […]
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[UPDATED] Duffy clarifies remarks about possible Warren-Richards race
New York State Lieutenant Governor Bob Duffy called yesterday to clarify remarks he made about a potential mayoral bid by City Council President Lovely Warren.
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Duffy’s smackdown of Warren defies history
We’re all buzzing about Bob Duffy’s public smackdown — wrapped in a PC package, of course — of City Council President Lovely Warren’s mayoral ambitions. Our former mayor and current lieutenant governor said Warren shouldn’t run — yet — and that he’s throwing his support behind incumbent Mayor Tom Richards. “Rochester needs them both,” Duffy […]
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Presidential election boosts local candidates
Local political observers say they’re not surprised that incumbent Democrat Louise Slaughter beat Republican Maggie Brooks, the Monroe County executive, in their Congressional contest. But they are surprised, they say, by Slaughter’s margin of victory. According to unofficial results from the Monroe County Board of Elections, Slaughter bested Brooks by about 15 percentage points, 166,342 […]
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Metro ink – 12.28.05
Zen machining Mitch Cohen has an RIT textbook that is three decades old, which makes it several years younger than everything else in his studio. “Most of this stuff is functional dinosaurs,” Cohen says, as he hand-cranks a piece of paper through a large metal contraption. This, he says almost lovingly, is a “platen press.” […]
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Urban Journal – 12.21.05
Remember Nixon? This is just terrifying. It was bad enough that the Bush administration fought John McCain’s push to ban torture. Now we learn that he has approved government spying on US citizens with no judicial oversight. And he says he intends to keep right on approving it. The excuse is the predictable one: we […]
