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Christine Carrie Fien on February 21st, 2012
Some Rochesterians see the port area, particularly the terminal, as little more than a monument to the failed ferry. To others it's Abbott's, a walk on the pier, and maybe a ride on the historic carousel - a quiet and scenic respite.
City officials see potential. Loads of it.
Right now
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 16th, 2012
Update 5:20 p.m.: Locust Club President Mike Mazzeo has taken issue with the planned Sibley substation. The Locust Club is the union that represents Rochester police officers. In a press release, Mazzeo says that while he is "encouraged by this movement toward a change in the patrol division structure," that
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 15th, 2012
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Six or seven years after first performing at New Life Presbyterian Church, Rochester's Bread & Water Theatre group has been informed that it will need to shell out $475 for an entertainment license.
J.R. Teeter, the group's artistic director,
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 14th, 2012
Rochester Fire Chief John Caufield estimates that 60 percent of the more than 900 people who signed up to take the most recent civil service exam to become Rochester firefighters were from underrepresented groups: women and minorities. It's potentially good news, he says, for a department that has
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 9th, 2012
Citing unfinished business on the school board and family commitments, Van White says he will not run a primary against State Assembly member David Gantt this year. White attempted to challenge Gantt in 2010, but a court ruled that White did not have residency in Gantt's Assembly district.
White
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 9th, 2012
Almost no topic raises as much anger and frustration locally than the money owed on the Sibley Building and why the city does not collect. Building owner Rochwil Associates, a limited partnership and subsidiary of Wilmorite, owes the city more than $22 million through a tax agreement.
The reason
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 8th, 2012
The committee reviewing Rochester's police oversight system has broken up into smaller groups in order to evaluate the process from several different points of view. The governance, police, and community groups will identify strengths and weakness of the oversight system, best ways to address those weaknesses, and then
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 7th, 2012
Pop culture has conditioned us to expect miracles from technology: from the cyberpunk-driven PC that brings down the Defense Department's mainframe to the mild-mannered Mac that is one upgrade short of sentience.
The reality is that technology is always a work in progress, and when you throw humans into the
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Christine Carrie Fien on January 31st, 2012
You can say what you want about the perception of crime in the City of Rochester versus the reality. But 200 young people marching down to the Liberty Pole, itching for a fight - or to watch a fight - is not a matter of perception; it's brass knuckles
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Christine Carrie Fien on January 26th, 2012
This is a corrected version of this story.
There are separate but related developments to report on Monroe Community College and the Sibley Building.
The first is that City Hall, despite previous assertions, will intervene in the lease dispute between MCC and Winn Companies. And that, says Mayor Tom
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 13th, 2012
Warning: Spoilers included.
About the only thing missing from last night's Downton Abbey marathon was Godzilla joining the Crawleys for tea. Although given the avalanche of life-changing events: Matthew walks! A failed elopement! Death! An arrest for murder! A wedding! Thomas being...helpful! I wouldn't have been surprised to
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 9th, 2012
Can't get enough Newt? Well, who can?
Rebecca Gingrich-Jones, wife of Newt Gingrich's gay half-sister Candace, is coming to Rochester in April for Bread & Water Theatre's production of She Said/She Said. Rebecca Gingrich-Jones wrote the play, which is about a mother renouncing her homosexuality and trying to keep
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 7th, 2012
Just in from the Washington Post: a federal appeals court has ruled that California's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Proposition 8 was approved by a slim majority of the state's voters in 2008.
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 3rd, 2012
I am intrigued and bothered by this LeRoy "mystery illness" case. What's really eating at me is the dismissal by some of the "conversion disorder" diagnosis. And I'm not saying that the victims, families, and their doctors shouldn't investigate this spontaneous outbreak of Tourette-like symptoms to exhaustion. Of
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 2nd, 2012
FINALLY! Finally, someone has put into words what's been bothering me about Mitt Romney.
Much has been made of Romney's pitch-perfect appearance, and he certainly seems like the candidate programmed by central casting. But there's something off, isn't there? The Atlantic nails it in an article called "The Uncanny
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 1st, 2012
Another Rochester neighborhood is worried it could lose its YMCA. The Southwest YMCA on Thurston Road is less than a handful of miles away from where the Collegetown YMCA would be, if that deal goes through.
A few weeks ago we reported that neighbors - worried about the proposed
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Christine Carrie Fien on January 30th, 2012
I continue to be troubled by the lack of transparency in the effort to review the police oversight system. I first called for greater transparency back in October when I happened to catch notice of an upcoming meeting in a City Council member's newsletter. That Council member, Matt
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Christine Carrie Fien on January 24th, 2012
I had a chance recently to talk to John Klofas, criminal justice professor at RIT, about the situation at the Liberty Pole. Several local media organizations reported that approximately 200 young people met up at the Liberty Pole one afternoon a couple of weeks ago to fight or to
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Christine Carrie Fien on January 19th, 2012
Kodak's role in Rochester's future will be much different from its role in the city's past, said Mayor Tom Richards this morning, reacting to the news that Kodak had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But, Richards said, most everyone has known that for a long time and the
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Christine Carrie Fien on January 17th, 2012
This is bizarre.
I'm sure you've heard about the big fight at the Liberty Pole last week. As many as 200 kids walked down there after a planned fight at East High was disrupted by administrators and police. The Democrat and Chronicle has reported, directly and indirectly, on the alleged
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