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Bob Duffy dishes

Bob Duffy says he just wanted to come home. Rochester’s former mayor and New York’s former lieutenant governor is back in the Flower City, heading up the Rochester Business Alliance. Rumors of a rift with Governor Andrew Cuomo are off-target, Duffy says; he loved being New York’s No. 2. But Rochester beckoned. “I loved the […]

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Metro ink – 12.21.05

House of books When bookseller Franlee Frank acquired the late composer David Diamond’s book collection about two years ago, she joked it would have been easier to buy the whole house rather than move all the books. Diamond’s dark green, shuttered dwelling on Edgerton Street bore the weight of thousands of volumes and manuscripts. The […]

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Metro Ink – 12.07.05

Duffy starts his move The Duffy administration is starting to take shape — by deletion, more than by addition, at this point. Five senior City Hall administrators have been told that they won’t have a job when the new mayor takes over in January: โ€ข Community Development Commissioner Linda Stango; โ€ข Economic Development Commissioner Fashun […]

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Keep up the protests

OK: We’re all on edge about the war. And people on both sides are pretty emotional. But it’s troubling to see war supporters challenging the patriotism of opponents.             According to a good number of war supporters, protesters had their chance to speak before the war began. Now it’s time to shut up and support […]

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