When you think of local suburban housing, and you think of Penfield, you probably imagine row upon row of subdivisions, one house not much different from the next, with a couple of barns tossed in here and there the farther out you drive. Just ask me, I live there. Post-1960s suburban housing design lacked a […]
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Is it art or is it anarchy?
Matthew Friday, local artist and member of the national antagonistic group the Society for the Representation of Society, has for a long time feared the marginalization of art. So eight years ago Friday, then a student and now an art professor at SUNY Oswego, and various other art, theater, and music students thought they’d cause […]
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Following the money and the benefits
To some people, it’s just another way government can help the business community improve things for all of us. For others, it’s a form of corporate welfare, public money headed to those who need it least. The County of Monroe Industrial Development Agency, an arm of county government, provides assistance to businesses that are expanding, […]
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Will they come?
You could almost hear James Carville whispering, “It’s the economy, stupid,” at last week’s zippy State of the County address. With all the recent talk of our limping local economy and budgets in crisis, it’s no wonder County Executive Jack Doyle focused exclusively on jobs. “It was more like a press conference,” says Sean […]
