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Dish 2013: Updating the kiddie menu

A couple of weeks ago, my family got carry-out from one of our favorite Asian restaurants. We ordered Chinese-style chicken curry, fish stir-fried with garlic and scallions, a dish made with crushed tofu and mushrooms, and a plate of salt-and-pepper squid — a tangle of tiny deep-fried tentacles that looked very much like the climactic […]

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Child subsidies stay

Children’s advocates in Monroe County say they were pleasantly surprised to find that the state’s 2013 to 2014 budget contains funding for a local child care subsidy program. The recently passed budget sets aside $1.1 million for the “facilitated enrollment” program, which provides subsidies to working parents earning between 165 percent and 275 percent of […]

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