The first poll in the 25th Congressional race is out, putting Democratic incumbent Louise Slaughter ahead of her Republican challenger Maggie Brooks by 10 points, 52 percent to 42 percent. The Siena Research Institute released the poll results this afternoon. Likely voters say Slaughter is better on health care, education, and war, the poll says. […]
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A boost for Rochester riverfront development?
The Vacuum Oil industrial site in southwest Rochester typified the city’s manufacturing muscle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when busy factories dotted the area. But the now-rundown 25-acre collection of public and private properties on the west bank of the Genesee River at Flint Street could see a revival. A bill sponsored […]
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Slaughter and Brooks start duking it out
Hoo boy: We may not get much of the harsh TV ads of the presidential campaign, since Obama pretty much has a lock on New York State, but it looks like the Maggie-and-Louise campaign will make up for it. The Slaughter campaign has released a particularly harsh TV ad called “Scandal,” focusing on negative news […]
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Brooks’ busy week
Maggie Brooks was in the news a lot last week. On the county executive front, her administration reached a tentative agreement with negotiators from a CSEA unit. The terms will be kept under wraps until union members have reviewed the agreement. Members must also ratify it before it goes into effect. The unit represents approximately […]
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NEWS BLOG: Slaughter-Brooks race approaching $2 million mark
This post has been updated with clarifications. Republican Maggie Brooks outraised Democrat Louise Slaughter over the past month. But Slaughter has raised more than $1 million during the 2011-12 Congressional election cycle. Brooks, who got a later start on fund-raising, has brought in about $773,000. Tack that amount on to Slaughter’s total and the candidates […]
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GOP deficit disorder
Ah, the hot topic of budgets. Unless you work in your company’s finance department, odds are the word makes your eyes glaze over. But for the parallel universe contained inside the Beltway, and for the watchdog groups monitoring it, budgets are a different story. For those people, things are just getting interesting. Two weeks ago, […]
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No Slaughter in the House?
If New YorkState’s delegation to the House of Representatives has a bastard stepchild, it’s MonroeCounty. Almost no one seems to want much to do with it. Our suburbs are split among three Republican congressmen whose homes — and primary centers of interest — lie elsewhere. To the west there’s Tom Reynolds, with a base in […]
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After the vote: the shock of the Red and the Blue
Now, one week after the presidential election, reality has set in. And as noticeable as the horror among Kerry supporters is the shock. It’s not so much that we were confident that Kerry would win (not, at least, until the peculiar election-day exit polls said that he would); it’s that we didn’t seem to recognize […]
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Payback billionaire?
You could have seen it coming. Back in November, WXXI Public Broadcasting aired a locally produced documentary that, according to promo material, explores the life of Paychex billionaire and free-spending ex-gubernatorial candidate Tom Golisano. The documentary, which “highlights his achievements,” was WXXI’s first in-house production to be shown on WXXI-HD 21.1, the station’s high-definition channel. […]
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Transit center problems, golf pollution, Republican budgets
