This year’s mayoral election could be a turning point for Rochester. Like many other cities, this one faces serious, escalating problems and shrinking resources. And the candidates for mayor – incumbent Tom Richards, City Council President Lovely Warren, and Green Party candidate Alex White – offer different paths to Rochester’s future. Richards and Warren compete […]
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Rochester students fare poorly on new state tests
This morning, the State Education Department released test results for grades 3-8, and the scores for the Rochester school district are shockingly low. Only 5.4 percent of city students are proficient in English and only 5 percent are proficient in math. Rochester scores are again the lowest of the state’s Big Five school district’s, with […]
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Primary focus
The petitions are in, and it looks like the City of Rochester will have Democratic primaries for mayor, City Council, and school board. The Town of Henrietta will see a Republican primary for the supervisor’s office between incumbent Michael Yudelson and current Town Board member Jack Moore. | Yudelson also has the Independence and Conservative […]
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Rochester mayoral candidates file financial disclosure forms
Candidates for public office in New York have filed their latest financial reports, and both Rochester mayoral contenders are raising money at a good clip. Incumbent Mayor Tom Richards started the year with an opening balance of $107,676. He reports contributions of $94,175 and expenses totaling $58,523.83 from the second half of January to July […]
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Election economics
City Council President and mayoral candidate Lovely Warren rolled out her economic plan last week during a press conference at her west-side headquarters. | Warren’s plan includes creating a Rochester Industrial Development Agency to guarantee jobs for city residents, pursuing social impact bonds to help deal with Rochester’s serious social problems, creating a small business […]
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Warren lays out economic vision; Richards camp responds
City Council President and mayoral candidate Lovely Warren rolled out her economic plan this morning during a press conference at her west-side headquarters.
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Officials tout Eastman Business Park agreement
Kodak’s bankruptcy filing generated a lot of questions, and some legitimate worries about the future of the Eastman Business Park on West Ridge Road. But some answers are starting to emerge, leaving state and local government and elected officials, as well as business park tenants, more confident in the facility’s future. Some of those answers […]
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Ruth Scott and the rising tide
Ruth Holland Scott remembers sixth grade as a broken string of recesses. Scott’s teacher at her small, segregated school in Albion, Michigan, often slept through class, Scott says — waking only when students pestered her. “The guys would take these long poles that you used to raise and lower the windows and lift the wig […]
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City should’ve cut the mounted patrol
Maybe someone can sell me on the reasoning for keeping the city’s mounted patrol, because I just don’t see it.
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This Week: Brockport elections, Mounted Patrol vote, Supremes rulings, chat with Vargas
Brockport residents will hold elections to choose a mayor and two trustees. Mayor Maria Castañeda is seeking a second term, running against Margaret Blackman, a current village trustee and retired professor of anthropology at SUNY Brockport. Blackman is joined by newcomer Valerie Ciciotti, and incumbent trustee Carol Hannan on the Revitalize Brockport party. Castañeda’s running […]
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Week Ahead: MCDC convention, Bike Week continues
UPDATE, Monday, May 13, 1:20 p.m.: Hearing from a couple of sources that the race for City Council endorsements will be less exciting than we thought. Two Democratic insiders say all five City Council incumbents have locked up the endorsement of the party by winning a majority of the citywide weighted vote. ORIGINAL BLOG: The […]
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[UPDATED] Democrats endorse Tom Richards
UPDATE#2, Wednesday, April 24, 9:30 a.m.: Monroe County Democratic Committee chair Joe Morelle sent out a press release last night, responding to the statement from Warren’s camp. His statement follows Warren’s at the end of this blog. UPDATE, Tuesday, April 23, 4:15 p.m.: Lovely Warren’s campaign has responded to the MCDC’s endorsement of Tom Richards. […]
