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Christine Carrie Fien on May 18th, 2012
Mayor Tom Richards' budget presentation the morning lacked much of the drama foreshadowed in the meetings and months leading up to the budget's rollout. Instead, Richards presented a plan that cuts the tax rate, freezes the tax levy, and proposes no cuts to libraries, recreation centers, or Neighborhood
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 15th, 2012
This week, we'll finally get to hear how Rochester Mayor Tom Richards plans to fill the $25 million hole in his new budget. Richards will present his 2012-2013 spending plan on Friday. | Richards has mentioned the possibility of borrowing from the state pension fund to pay soaring pension
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 15th, 2012
Highland Park neighbors are trying a unique approach to calm traffic and build community in their neighborhood. The intersection of Meigs and Linden Streets will be closed on June 9-10 so neighbors can paint a large mural right on the street.
The BoulevART project is a partnership between the Highland
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 8th, 2012
No discussion of historic preservation in Rochester can escape remorse over the loss of the Bragdon train station and the RKO Palace. They are the examples cited when another historic or significant building is threatened: the original sins of destruction.
The Bragdon station, designed by the prominent Rochester architect Claude
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 8th, 2012
The Strathallan's trees will rise again, says Peter Siegrist, preservation planner for the City of Rochester. Well, not the same trees. | The Strathallan on East Avenue is going through extensive changes inside and out, Siegrist says. And part of that is a detailed landscaping plan. | "The landscaping
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 1st, 2012
As the committee investigating police oversight in Rochester enters its home stretch, committee co-chair Adam McFadden says those inside and outside the system have more in common than you'd think. McFadden is also a member of City Council.
The 15-member committee has been meeting since last year, with the intention of
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Christine Carrie Fien on April 30th, 2012
After highlighting some of the economic development projects happening around the city, Rochester Mayor Tom Richards' State of the City address (see the city's press release below) turned almost grave when talking about Rochester's public schools and the city's financial challenges.
Richards gave his hour-long speech, his first State of the
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Christine Carrie Fien on April 25th, 2012
This is a corrected version of this story.
Former mayoral candidate Alex White played party pooper at last night's City Council meeting. One of the most anticipated items on the agenda was a proposed $20 million federal loan for the Mt. Hope College Town project. Members of
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Christine Carrie Fien on April 25th, 2012
Rochester residents want the city to collect the money owed on the Sibley Building, to stop subsidizing commercial projects, to get rid of surveillance cameras, and to be less generous to its employees. | Those were some of themes that emerged from the city's Voice of the Customer
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Christine Carrie Fien on April 20th, 2012
One man's campaign to call attention to what he says is the City of Rochester's inconsistent and unfair system of entertainment licensing has caught the interest of City Hall. Officials from planning and zoning, City Council, and the legal department met yesterday to discuss an overhaul of the
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 16th, 2012
What, exactly, constitutes "downtown" Rochester? The most consistent definition seems to be that downtown is everything within the Inner Loop. If you look at a map, the loop surrounds downtown like an amniotic sac, or "moat" - as some people call it.
But Heidi Zimmer-Meyer, executive director of the
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 11th, 2012
Damn, I feel bad about the Brixners.
Jerry and Irene Brixner are the Chili couple who were in that terrible crash earlier this week. She died, and he's apparently in rough shape at the hospital.
I've known Jerry Brixner almost all of my life. He used to come around my neighborhood
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 9th, 2012
President Barack Obama has told ABC News that he now supports marriage equality. Obama said his evolution -- he previously supported civil unions -- is "based on conversations with his own staff members, openly gay and lesbian service members, and conversations with his wife and own daughters."
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 7th, 2012
Are you following the case of Captain Bruce Kevin Clark? He's the former Spencerport man who died suddenly and so far without explanation while on a Skype chat with his wife. The incident happened on May 1 while Clark was reportedly on a base in Tarin Kot, Afghanistan,
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 3rd, 2012
Lowest forms of life: blue-green algae, slime mold, John Edwards.
I caught an assignment to photograph then VP candidate Edwards several years ago, when he appeared in Rochester. He had his "Two Americas" thing going on, and he clearly relished playing to the crowd. My impression at
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 2nd, 2012
My colleague Tim Macaluso and I spend a lot of time talking about the Rochester school district. It's never an encouraging discussion and usually ends with one or both of us throwing up our hands and saying, "but what are you going to do?" Tim sometimes improvises and
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Christine Carrie Fien on April 27th, 2012
The City of Rochester will probably make changes to its landmark process as a result of the battle over Cataract Street's old brew house, says Mayor Tom Richards. But it's important that the process is undertaken carefully and thoughtfully, he said.
The Cataract Street fight exposed a flaw
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Christine Carrie Fien on April 10th, 2012
Mayor Tom Richards' initial reaction to being asked to handicap the Maggie Brooks-Louise Slaughter congressional race was pretty much what you'd expect.
"What, are you kidding me?" he said in an interview yesterday. "How much of a dope do you think I am?"
But he did offer a few thoughts.
The
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Christine Carrie Fien on April 9th, 2012
UPDATE: The D and C has apparently taken Rau's blog down. We've got a PDF copy at right.
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Democrat and Chronicle blogger Andy Rau has written an offensive, irresponsible post about Congress member Louise Slaughter's health. The blog is tagged "Alzheimer's Disease," and Rau takes every opportunity
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Christine Carrie Fien on April 5th, 2012
Just a quick hit for you on the Culver Road armory.
According to a representative of the South Wedge Planning Committee, a three-story restaurant run by the same people who run Black and Blue on Monroe Avenue in Pittsford is set to open in the coming months.
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