If your love of Rochester is so strong that it cannot be sated by the consumption of garbage plates or the sniffing of lilacs, if your passion simply must be given physical life, consider: ink. For some time apparently, it’s been a “thing” for people to get the City of Rochester’s logo tattooed on their […]
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Cops and the Edison 3
Rochester’s next police chief, expected to be named later this month, will walk into an extraordinarily tough job: fighting crime and improving police-community relations. At the same time. Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve gotten vivid examples of how hard that will be. There’ve been almost daily reports of shootings, fights, and stabbings. Reining […]
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Eastman House sues over apartments
The George Eastman House has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to prevent construction of an apartment complex on University Avenue in the East Avenue Preservation District.
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New report paints grim picture of poverty in the Rochester area
What’s most distressing about the report’s findings is the extreme concentration of poverty in Rochester, and the deep barriers to social and economic progress it poses.
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Interfaith group calls for child care funding boost
An interfaith group is calling on Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks and County Legislators to restore $1.3 million in proposed cuts to day care subsidies. And it wants the county to put in an additional $600,000 on top of the $1.3 million. The $1.3 million cut is included in Brooks’ 2014 budget proposal and comes […]
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Warren resigns City Council seat
Council has 30 days to select a replacement.
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[UPDATED] Brooks’ husband nabbed in LDC probe
Charges were lodged today against four individuals with connections to local development corporations linked to Monroe County.
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AG’s investigation nets first charges
A grand jury investigation into Monroe County-affiliated local development corporations, led by the Attorney General’s Office, has resulted in its first set of charges. Today, Dan Lynch, president of Treadstone Development Corporation, a firm that contracts with two county-connected local development corporations, was arraigned on a charge of second-degree larceny and two charges of falsifying […]
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Commissioner King cancels Common Core forums
Sometimes reality can overwhelm rhetoric, and that appears to be the case with a recent set of statewide public forums planned by State Education Commissioner John King. King intended to use the forums to provide more information about the rigorous new Common Core curriculum. But after a disastrous first meeting (see YouTube video below), King […]
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Unshackle Upstate wants fracking, lower taxes
Unshackle Upstate has released a five-point plan for job growth and lower taxes in the parts of the state that aren’t New York City. The plan focuses primarily on eliminating or changing certain taxes and surcharges. But Unshackle officials are also highlighting the potential benefits fracking the Marcellus Shale. During a press conference this morning […]
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Video Game Review: Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX
No rose-colored nostalgia glasses here: I never played the original “Kingdom Hearts.” Well, that’s not entirely true. At various points when the game first game out, I attempted it, but I don’t believe I ever made it off Destiny Island, the game’s opening world. I can vividly remember how excited I was for the game; […]
