Mayoral candidate Rachel Barnhart has raised the possibility of selling the city’s water system to the Monroe County Water Authority to help fund her proposed 50 percent tax cut for Rochester residents and business. Barnhart, a Democrat, didn’t say she’d definitely pursue a sale if elected; she merely mentioned it as an example of a […]
Monroe County Water Authority
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Dems question makeup of Water Authority board
The Monroe County Water Authority Board has two new members. The County Legislature approved their appointments during a meeting last night. But only Lej Republicans and Democratic Legislator John Lightfoot supported the appointment of Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Allen Bernstein and Scott Nasca, who is president of a local investment firm. Democrats didn’t voice […]
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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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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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Reader feedback – 9.20.06
Radio and dead air; Hezbollah’s motives, graft in government
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Reader feedback – 9.8.06
HEZBOLLAH’S THE MURDERER — IN ISRAEL AND IN LEBANON I am concerned about your editorial comment regarding Israel (“Cease Fire,” Urban Journal, July 26). I posit a very unlikely hypothetical: Al Qaeda is lodged in homes and office buildings in Niagara Falls, Canada. With no apparent cause, they have crossed the RainbowBridge and seized two […]
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Metro ink – 3.08.06
Maybe it seems hard for you to imagine how expanding the county’s water
system could be controversial
