You don’t see lawn signs up, and the election’s not until next fall, but Rochester’s campaign for mayor has already started. Candidates have begun raising money and lobbying political-party committee members. Before we start thinking about who we want, though, we ought to talk about what we want. What are the city’s challenges? What […]
Tom Ryan
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Nojay and the bus station; remembering Ryan; porn’s complexities; the war
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Thomas P. Ryan Jr.
Thomas P. Ryan Jr. Tom Ryan was a complicated man, and a complicated mayor. Ryan, who died last Friday, served as Rochester’s mayor from 1974 to 1993, and right to the end, he was shy: hated public speaking, didn’t like going to neighborhood meetings. “He was not one who reveled in the ceremonies of […]
