Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren’s announcement last week that she is seeking a pivotal role in the rescue efforts for the city’s most troubled schools is the bold declaration that many people have anticipated since her election. Warren ran her 2013 mayoral campaign in large part on education, but action had been conspicuously lacking until her […]
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Cuomo to teachers: Who are we kidding?
Most pols love industries. The more the better. They offer them tax breaks and other perks in the hope that they’ll create jobs. But Governor Andrew Cuomo made it clear in his State of the State speech yesterday that there’s at least one – what he calls the education industry – that is no longer […]
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Bob Duffy dishes
Bob Duffy says he just wanted to come home. Rochester’s former mayor and New York’s former lieutenant governor is back in the Flower City, heading up the Rochester Business Alliance. Rumors of a rift with Governor Andrew Cuomo are off-target, Duffy says; he loved being New York’s No. 2. But Rochester beckoned. “I loved the […]
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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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City schools and the Rochester mayor’s race
The mayoral race is officially under way and if past elections are any indication, be prepared for plenty of heated debate about the city school district. Though the situation is far from perfect, the district and the city have been working more collaboratively over the past two years than at any other time in recent […]
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Familiar names in Assembly battle
David Gantt, Jose Cruz, and John Lightfoot will face off in the 137th Assembly District primary.
