UPDATE, DEC. 3: Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley has dropped the charges against the three young men arrested while waiting for a bus last week. Doorley released the following brief statement: “After reviewing the facts associated with these arrests, I have decided to dismiss the charges in the interest of justice.” ORIGINAL BLOG: I know […]
Lovely Warren
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Warren appoints two to lead her transition team
Rochester Mayor-elect Lovely Warren has appointed a local lawyer and an RIT professor to lead her transition. Christopher Thomas and Dr. dt ogilvie are serving on a volunteer basis. The transition team will also hire Strategic Community Intervention LLC, founded by former Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson, to consult. Current mayor Tom Richards will be a […]
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Lovely Warren’s next campaign
Even if she hadn’t won last week, Lovely Warren would deserve credit for focusing relentlessly on the existence of “two Rochesters” during her campaign for mayor. Dealing with poverty and its consequences in Rochester’s inner city is the most important challenge this city faces. In less than two months, Warren will be responsible for leading […]
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Brooks endorses Lovely Warren for mayor
At first blush I didn’t see how Maggie Brooks’ endorsement could help Lovely Warren in her campaign for Rochester mayor. Many people believe that the county has turned its back on the city, so why would they listen to anything that the Republican county executive has to say? And Brooks’ administration has had some issues […]
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White wants a Rochester ‘for us, by us’
Alex White, the Green Party candidate for Rochester mayor, is fired up about Costco. But not in the way you think. Costco, a membership-only warehouse store, will be part of the CityGate development planned for the intersection of East Henrietta and Westfall roads. Costco received property tax abatements from the county’s industrial development agency worth […]
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[UPDATED] Independence Party standing behind Richards
The Independence Party of Monroe County is urging voters to cast their ballots for Mayor Tom Richards, even though Richards is no longer campaigning for reelection.
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Warren should debate
I get why Lovely Warren, the Democratic candidate for Rochester mayor, wouldn’t want to debate her Green Party opponent, Alex White. Warren says that, instead, she intends to focus on door to door interactions with citizens — the kind of grassroots campaigning that won her the Democratic endorsement. Warren’s ground game has been so successful […]
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Theories and questions for a post-Richards race
He’s still on the November ballot, on the Working Families and Independence lines, but Mayor Tom Richards ended his campaign for re-election on Tuesday, citing serious health issues of a family member. Presumably if he had won last week’s Democratic primary, Richards would have continued to the general election, facing the Green Party’s Alex White. […]
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Feedback 9/18
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Should Richards keep campaigning?
Tom Richards has a decision to make. And my hunch is that it’s one of the toughest he has faced in a long time. Having lost the Democratic primary to Lovely Warren, does he try hold on to the office of mayor and run in the November general election? He’s still on the ballot, on […]
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Questions raised by Lovely Warren’s victory
Short- and longer-term questions in light of Lovely Warren’s victory in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary election: Short term 1) Will Tom Richards campaign on the Independence and Working Families lines? 2) How will the mayoral campaign of Green Party candidate Alex White adjust? White, like almost everyone else, was probably expecting to face Richards, not […]
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Council members grill police chief over Hardaway arrest video
While Deputy Chief Mike Wood briefed the press Thursday afternoon on the latest in the city’s recent spate of killings, on the other side of Main Street, Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard answered tough questions from City Council members on an arrest video that has the whole community talking. A video posted on YouTube last […]
