our longtime elected officials who have dealt with some of Rochester’s most serious challenges left office at the end of the year.
Carolee Conklin
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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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Bad memories haunt Sibley deal
The extended limbo in which the City of Rochester has found itself over the Sibley building — unable to collect on a huge outstanding debt, unwilling to foreclose on a massive, underused building — has made City Council members gun-shy. They say they want to make sure the city doesn’t fall into the same trap […]
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For City Council: Conklin, Maneiro, Miller, Pritchard
Of City Council’s nine seats, five are up for election this fall. These are at-large seats, which means that in the September 13 Democratic primary, voters can choose five of the nine candidates on the ballot. The nine have remarkably similar opinions on several issues. Most support continuing subsidies for the fast ferry, at least […]
