Rochester City Council approved a one-year moratorium on natural gas exploration and extraction in the city at last night’s meeting. Council members also approved new budgets for the city and for the Rochester school district. Council members said the moratorium is needed because there hasn’t been sufficient research into the impact of fracking in urban […]
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Metro Ink 10.19.05
Stone by stone MCC students Shannon Stewart and Samuel Bradley have two buckets, 1.1 million stones, and $300. | But they want $550,000. | Stewart is president and Bradley is treasurer of the Holocaust Genocide Studies Project. | They take their buckets of stones (one stone to represent each person killed in the 1994 Rwandan […]
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Taking care of (bad) business
Illegal. Arbitrary. Unconstitutional. These are just a few of the printable adjectives being thrown at the city’s new “certificate of use” program in the conflict it has touched off. On one side of the conflict is the City of Rochester. Last November, City Council overhauled the program the city uses to license certain small businesses. […]
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‘Will work to pay fine’
Chuck Cerankosky knows panhandlers. As the manager of Java’s on Gibbs Street for the past three years, he’s used to dealing with people who use the coffee shop’s sidewalk seating as a “market for panhandling.” He knows many of them by name, and he knows that many are either physically or mentally disabled. And […]
