County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo has renewed Budget Week again this year – three days of talking up what she views as the highlights of her 2020 spending plan – and she opened Monday by discussing jobs programs. The full budget, or anything beyond its basic $1.2 billion figure, isn’t available yet. Dinolfo will talk about […]
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Frankel, GOP trade barbs
Former Brighton Supervisor Sandra Frankel says that her political career has followed a pattern: the first time she runs for an office, she loses, but the second time, she wins. That was the case when she ran for Brighton school board, and then when she ran for Brighton supervisor — a job she held for […]
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Frankel, Bronson, and Andrews emerge as possible county exec candidates
A handful of Democrats have been mentioned in party circles as potential county executive candidates. And three have openly acknowledged their interest: former Brighton Supervisor Sandra Frankel, County Legislature Democratic leader Carrie Andrews, and state Assembly member Harry Bronson. Frankel, so far, is the only Democrat to definitively say that she’s running. Andrews is weighing […]
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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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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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After the vote: potholes ahead
A week after Maggie Brooks’ victory over Bill Johnson, I’m drawn back to Jimmy Carter’s “crisis of confidence” — or national “malaise,” as it became known. Carter was addressing the US “energy crisis” of the moment (apart from his attachment to coal and oil, he mused that solar power would provide 20 percent of the […]
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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 11.12.03
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violence, Monroe’s election, WRUR’s
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To save Monroe: Bill Johnson
Four years ago, we urged MonroeCounty voters to reject Jack Doyle’s bid for re-election as county executive. Among our reasons: the threats and bullying that he and other Republican Party leaders used to get their way, and the close correlation between the awarding of county contracts and donations to Doyle and the Republican Party. […]
