Local elections can be pretty messy, and they usually hinge on some pretty local stuff: unpopular development projects, taxes, and political grudges. Typically, the contests don’t receive much attention outside of the town or village they happen in, due to their backyard politics. But this fall, people across Monroe County are watching the contest for […]
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Ethics boards: you’ve got it all wrong
When Donald Youngman heard his boss, Henrietta Town Supervisor Jack Moore, make what he felt were inappropriate remarks, he filed a complaint with the town’s ethics board — which, on the surface, seems like a logical course of action. The circumstances behind Youngman’s complaint are now well-known. Youngman, a 36-year town employee, overheard Moore talking […]
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Moore’s remarks show disrespect, not lack of sensitivity
Henrietta Supervisor Jack Moore is taking a ton of heat for his widely-circulated, “city cousins” remarks. Monroe County Republican Chair Bill Reilich wants him to resign, as do Henrietta Democratic Committee Leader Simeon Banister; Democratic County Executive candidate Sandy Frankel; the Rev. Lewis Stewart of the United Christian Leadership Ministry; and the Democrat and Chronicle […]
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Republicans fight for Henrietta’s top job
In Monroe County’s suburbs, Henrietta is sometimes invoked as a pejorative or a cautionary tale of dominance by shopping plazas and big box commercial development. “We don’t want to be Henrietta,” residents tell their elected officials. Yet those same people shop in Henrietta’s stores and eat in its restaurants. Henrietta is misunderstood. It’s not all […]
