I’m trying to pull myself out of my funk here, but I’m not making much progress. I just hate to see a community like this one waste its potential when it has so much. A couple of things set this off. One is that yet again, there’s a little buzz about government “consolidation.” The governor […]
metropolitan government
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Reader feedback 8.6.03
Metro works Once again county Republicans are showing their disingenuousness and ignorance. Eight town supervisors demonstrated on the steps of City Hall on July 24 in an effort to discredit Rochester Mayor and County Executive candidate Bill Johnson, and confuse the voters about his position on metro government. Greece Supervisor John Auberger’s remark that […]
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Time bomb
There is a time bomb waiting to blow up in our faces — in Rochester, in Pittsford, in Hamlin, in Webster, in Gates, in Mendon…. The time bomb is the county’s financial situation, severe now, and growing worse. Last year and this year, the county faced major budget deficits. It covered them by, among […]
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Can we talk?
This month, as you may have heard, Louisville, Kentucky, leaped from 67th to 16th on the list of the largest cities in the US. Well, it wasn’t exactly one fell swoop; the jump — which happened because the city and county governments merged — was the result of an election in 2000. Which was […]
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News briefs 7.31.02
Fountain of youth Brad Welker and Ernest Orlando playing Peter Pan at Seabreeze. Wife, kids, job, foot fungus, life in general got you down? Find yourself praying you won’t wake up in the morning? Baptize yourself in chlorinated redemption and be saved. Water parks can cure your blues and ease the heat. And no […]
