Now, one week after the presidential election, reality has set in. And as noticeable as the horror among Kerry supporters is the shock. It’s not so much that we were confident that Kerry would win (not, at least, until the peculiar election-day exit polls said that he would); it’s that we didn’t seem to recognize […]
Rob Brown
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City school district tackles the budget — again
It’s a position no one would envy. For the second time in this year’s budget cycle, Rochester school district officials are having to cut their budget, and more jobs and programs are on the line. Critics, including Mayor Bill Johnson, State Assemblyman David Gantt, and some business-community leaders, have repeatedly charged that the […]
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The School Board primary, pesticides on lawns, Doyle taxes
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Doing the math: the middle-school dilemma
When our son, proud alumnus of the Rochester school district, was a high-school senior in 1988, he and his classmates wore a T-shirt created especially for them. Its wording: “They saved the best till last.” The school was Monroe Junior-Senior High School, of which his (we thought) was the last graduating class. The next […]
