The City of Rochester is a fragile thing, with tremendous resources and seemingly great potential. But, like many cities in the US, it is facing enormous challenges. Poverty, unemployment, loss of business and industry, low academic achievement, violence, tension over police oversight and community relations, racism: No mayor and no City Council can solve those […]
Jim Sheppard
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Sheppard outlines his platform
At a press conference this morning promoting his campaign for Rochester mayor, County Legislator Jim Sheppard released an extensive platform that focuses on a broad range of challenges facing the city. Sheppard will face incumbent Lovely Warren and former television reporter Rachel Barnhart in a September primary. Among Sheppard’s proposed initiatives: In economic development: Sheppard […]
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The week ahead: unions hold mayoral forum
Two public employees unions are teaming up to hold a forum for the three Democratic mayoral candidates. The forum will happen from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at East High School, 1801 East Main Street. BENTE/AFSCME Local 2419 and AFSCME Local 1635, which combined represent about 2,500 workers, promise the candidates will discuss […]
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Warren wins Dems’ committee votes
Mayor Lovely Warren will go into the Democratic Party’s convention on May 18 with enough support to become the party’s mayoral nominee after the first round of balloting. As expected, most members of the Democrats’ 27th Legislative District committee voted for Warren last night. The 27th, which is based in the city’s southwest neighborhoods, was […]
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Warren and her opponents square off
The list of accomplishments that Mayor Warren cited was a lengthy one, and she got plenty of applause from the audience of mostly invited guests. Her opponents in the September Democratic Primary, Jim Sheppard and Rachel Barnhart, are seeing something different.
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Politics, violence, and the city’s mayoral race
Violence is not a problem of policing. It’s a terrible, complicated societal problem, and police cannot solve it.
