Two public employees unions are teaming up to hold a forum for the three Democratic mayoral candidates. The forum will happen from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Thursday at East High School, 1801 East Main Street. BENTE/AFSCME Local 2419 and AFSCME Local 1635, which combined represent about 2,500 workers, promise the candidates will discuss […]
Rachel Barnhart
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Warren wins Dems’ committee votes
Mayor Lovely Warren will go into the Democratic Party’s convention on May 18 with enough support to become the party’s mayoral nominee after the first round of balloting. As expected, most members of the Democrats’ 27th Legislative District committee voted for Warren last night. The 27th, which is based in the city’s southwest neighborhoods, was […]
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Warren and her opponents square off
The list of accomplishments that Mayor Warren cited was a lengthy one, and she got plenty of applause from the audience of mostly invited guests. Her opponents in the September Democratic Primary, Jim Sheppard and Rachel Barnhart, are seeing something different.
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In Dem committee voting, Sheppard continues to lead
Former Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard has boosted his lead in his effort to win the Monroe County Democratic Committee’s designation for mayor. Sheppard won two of the three Democratic committees that voted last night on the mayoral nomination: the 21st and 23rd legislative district committees. Mayor Lovely Warren won the 24th district committee. Former […]
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Politics, violence, and the city’s mayoral race
Violence is not a problem of policing. It’s a terrible, complicated societal problem, and police cannot solve it.
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Should the city sell its water?
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 […]
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The risks we face in the next race for mayor
The last thing this community needs right now is major division among Rochester Democrats. But the division is there.
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Feedback 12/14
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Feedback 9/7
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Barnhart responds to CITY’s Assembly endorsement
CITY Newspaper has endorsed my opponent in a piece that strongly suggests the outcome was predetermined. It’s regrettable that CITY has not done a single story objectively covering this race. Instead, readers will only see an endorsement article. The article quotes an ardent supporter of Harry Bronson. No one supporting me was quoted, though the […]
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Feedback 8/31
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It’s Bronson, hands down
CITY endorses Harry Bronson for State Assembly over challenger Rachel Barnart.
