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Monroe County Republicans
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Monroe County election shows a divided community
It matters how important the city is in the eyes of the new county executive and the heavily Republican legislature.
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Dems hopeful for an upset in Greece
For a community with a population of fewer than 100,000, Greece’s scandals rival those of much larger places. Over the last decade, the town has been mired in the kinds of controversies, investigations, wrongdoings, and high-profile court cases that are usually reserved for nighttime television drama. The Greece Police Department became an algae bloom of […]
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Lej fights intensify
The relationship between Republicans and Democrats in the Monroe County Legislature was strained before, but now the two sides are engaged in open warfare. The latest salvo was fired by the GOP, which wants to chop funding for the Democratic office by 10 percent. By Republicans’ logic, the funding should reflect the makeup of the […]
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Fee faux outrage
Let me say a word in support of Maggie Brooks. I didn’t vote for her for Congress or for county executive, and this newspaper didn’t endorse her for either one. But I’ve been amused at Monroe County Democrats’ piling on about her latest budget and the fees snuggled away inside it. By the time you […]
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Reader feedback – 10-18-06
US soldier deaths mount; local Republicans flex
their muscle
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Republicans hang tough on the Water Authority
It might not have reached Mark Foley proportions, but for local Democrats, a recent scandal at the Monroe County Water Authority has been the gift that keeps on giving
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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 […]
