It was a pretty typical election-campaign event, but the size of the audience was anything but typical. People packed City Hall’s spacious Council Chambers March 8 to hear three candidates for Rochester mayor — and one possible candidate — discuss campaign issues. There were people sitting on the floor, people standing several deep at the […]
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For the next mayor: big, tough problems
“Immense and perhaps intractable”: That’s how, in his recent State of the City address, Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson described his successor’s challenges. He could have as easily used the words “overwhelming and perhaps impossible.” Johnson is an optimist, though; and perhaps he wanted to provide a bit of hope for the candidates in this […]






