Mayor Lovely Warren is demanding answers about a recent shakeup at the Rochester Housing Authority. Last week, RHA board members ousted executive director Alex Castro and picked City Council member Adam McFadden to take his place. At the time, the reasons for Castro’s termination weren’t clear. Today, in a terse letter to board chair George […]
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Warner may withdraw from Democratic chair race
Ken Warner may be ending his controversial bid for chair of the Monroe County Democratic Committee. Today, Warner sent an e-mail to at least some committee members announcing his decision. He’s retiring from Unicon, a collaboration of the local construction industry and building trades, at the end of the month. And he says in his […]
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This Christian nation: the immigrant children
Maybe I’m naive, but I was shocked last month by the reaction to news that Monroe County might get a shelter for immigrant children. In late June, when the media reported that the federal government was looking at locations in the Rochester and Buffalo areas, Congressman Chris Collins lashed out. It’s “unacceptable,” he said, that […]
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More Big Five mayors interested in mayoral control
Mayoral control is back. Maybe it never went away. An Ithaca Journal report out of Albany says that the State Senate supports giving Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano control of that city’s schools. And Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said recently that he’s interested in mayoral control, too. Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren has so far refrained from making […]
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Warren’s shaky start shows she needs help
Let me say one thing quickly: It’s obvious to me that Mayor Lovely Warren needs a security guard. As our Chris Fien is reporting this week, both Warren and her husband have received threats of physical violence. There have been threats to their 3-year-old daughter. These don’t sound like pranks. They sound like intimidation by […]
