Rochester City Council will decide on Tuesday night whether it’s willing to chip in $15,000 for a new, cooperative truancy effort with the Rochester school district and the United Way. The measure faced a rough ride through Council’s Public Safety Committee last week — the last stop before a vote of the full Council. The […]
Monroe County budget
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Reader feedback – 01-03-07 (1 of 2)
Thank you to Krestia DeGeorge for watching the actions of the County Legislature.
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Metro ink – 11-22-06
WATER PLANT HEARINGS SET The state Department of Environmental Conservation will hold two public hearings on November 30 on the Monroe County Water Authority’s controversial plan for a new plant in Webster. Technically, the principal issues have to do with the water the plant would suck in from LakeOntario: an average of 35 million gallons […]
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Meto ink – 7.19.06
RHINOS REPEAT? In 1999, the Rochester Rhinos did the unthinkable: they beat four straight Major League Soccer teams en route to claiming the US Open Cup title. In doing so, they became the first lower-level team to claim the Cup in the MLS era. That put Rochester on the national soccer map, but did it […]
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Metro ink – 5.24.06
What began in the 90’s as routine taping of meetings and
workshops has evolved into “Students First,” a Rochester School District television show.
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Metro Ink – 2.8.06
Henley gets his seat Jeff Henley has been named to fill the Rochester School Board vacancy left by Darryl Porter, who joined the Duffy administration in January. Board president Domingo Garcia made the appointment on Monday after board members failed to agree on a replacement. Garcia says he chose Henley for several reasons. “He was […]
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Mayday! (Are we shuffling off to Buffalo?)
For Monroe County, next year marks the end of an era. After 2006, the county’s annual budgets will almost certainly top a billion dollars. In fact, we may even top that mark in 2006. The budget proposed by County Executive Maggie Brooks and adopted by the legislature in a 24-5 vote last week totals $998.9 […]
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It’s Time for Some Truth
On a bright spring day this year, with great fanfare, the county executive went before the CountyLegislature’s Ways and Means Committee and proclaimed: “We ended 2004 with a budget surplus of $2.4 million.” Great news, if it were true. The problem is that the very next day the county’s auditors certified financial statements showing that […]
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Reader feedback 6.15.05
Cutting costs in the county, protesting Bush policies
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Reader feedback 5.25.05
Grading the D&C, reforming the county budget, defending Bush
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A feeling of (fore)closure
If you owe money to the City of Rochester in the form of back taxes, you’ve got five years to get caught up. But if you owe it to the County of Monroe, you’d better be prepared to cough up, and fast. For county property taxpayers who’ve fallen behind and hope to get into a […]
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New briefs 12.03.03
RGRTA, the Terminalator Rochester Central Station’s proponents must think there are no speed bumps ahead for the downtown bus terminal plan. But even as the December 15 deadline for public comment approaches, the opposition is coming together. Opponents of the plan have been studying the project’s draft environmental impact statement. (It’s viewable at the […]
