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Who is the face of public safety in Rochester at this moment?
UPDATE, DEC. 3: Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley has dropped the charges against the three young men arrested while waiting for a bus last week. Doorley released the following brief statement: “After reviewing the facts associated with these arrests, I have decided to dismiss the charges in the interest of justice.” ORIGINAL BLOG: I know […]
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White wants a Rochester ‘for us, by us’
Alex White, the Green Party candidate for Rochester mayor, is fired up about Costco. But not in the way you think. Costco, a membership-only warehouse store, will be part of the CityGate development planned for the intersection of East Henrietta and Westfall roads. Costco received property tax abatements from the county’s industrial development agency worth […]
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[UPDATED] Independence Party standing behind Richards
The Independence Party of Monroe County is urging voters to cast their ballots for Mayor Tom Richards, even though Richards is no longer campaigning for reelection.
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Theories and questions for a post-Richards race
He’s still on the November ballot, on the Working Families and Independence lines, but Mayor Tom Richards ended his campaign for re-election on Tuesday, citing serious health issues of a family member. Presumably if he had won last week’s Democratic primary, Richards would have continued to the general election, facing the Green Party’s Alex White. […]
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Feedback 9/18
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[UPDATED] Mayor Tom Richards officially ends reelection campaign
Rochester Mayor Tom Richards has just announced that he is ending his campaign for re-election. He lost the Democratic Primary last week to City Council President Lovely Warren, but remains on the ballot for the November election on the Working Families and Independence Party lines. But he said in a press conference today that he […]
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Should Richards keep campaigning?
Tom Richards has a decision to make. And my hunch is that it’s one of the toughest he has faced in a long time. Having lost the Democratic primary to Lovely Warren, does he try hold on to the office of mayor and run in the November general election? He’s still on the ballot, on […]
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Questions raised by Lovely Warren’s victory
Short- and longer-term questions in light of Lovely Warren’s victory in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary election: Short term 1) Will Tom Richards campaign on the Independence and Working Families lines? 2) How will the mayoral campaign of Green Party candidate Alex White adjust? White, like almost everyone else, was probably expecting to face Richards, not […]
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Mayoral debate tonight
Mayoral hopefuls Tom Richards and Lovely Warren will square off in their second debate today at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV and AM 1370. Richards, the incumbent, and Warren, who is City Council president, are vying for the Democratic endorsement. If Warren wins the September 10 primary, she will face Green Party candidate Alex White in […]
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Warren gets personal in TV debate
This is a corrected version of this blog. Locally produced TV often has an unintended comedic element, and it was a bit strange to see Rochester mayoral hopefuls Tom Richards and Lovely Warren sitting side by side at News 8’s anchor desk last night. Mostly because the pair made a credible News team! duo. The […]
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Warren vs. Richards: One city, two visions
The Lovely Warren who walked to the front of the room in early May to ask her fellow Democrats to support her bid for mayor is not the same Lovely Warren who’s on the campaign trail today. There has been an observable transformation. Those first rough, nervous steps have been replaced by confident strides. Candidate […]
