CHAINED IN The law’s been on the books since 1936 — not that anyone around here has followed it. Until now. Park Avenue and other city restaurant owners have begun placing chains, ropes, and other dividers around outdoor seating areas to abide by the 70-year-old liquor law, which requires restaurants to clearly define areas where […]
Randy Kuhl
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GOP deficit disorder
Ah, the hot topic of budgets. Unless you work in your company’s finance department, odds are the word makes your eyes glaze over. But for the parallel universe contained inside the Beltway, and for the watchdog groups monitoring it, budgets are a different story. For those people, things are just getting interesting. Two weeks ago, […]
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News, busted
The local TV news was in a tizzy. On Thursday, January 6, the live noon broadcasts on WROC (Channel 8) and WHEC (Channel 10) were interrupted, just as they were trying to report on the Highland Hospital power outage. A man wearing a beige body suit labeled “Invisible Suit” and a man in a mask […]
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City endorsements
It is an important, and troubling, election year. Voters’ focus has been principally on the presidential campaign, but there are Senate, Congressional, state, and local offices on the November 2 ballot as well. In nearly all of these races, the campaign season has been starkly different from that of the Bush-Kerry campaign: quiet, with […]
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29th Congressional District
With Republicans enjoying a slim 22-member majority in the 435-member US House of Representatives, both parties are paying close attention to seats around the nation that seem in play. One of those lies on Rochester’s doorstep, with 18-year Republican Congressman Amo Houghton of Corning is retiring, clearing the field for two fresh challengers. Houghton’s former […]
