DEVELOPMENT: City official: Port won’t be a playground for the rich

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EDUCATION: Rankle over high textbook costs

Tim Louis Macaluso on February 15th, 2012 - 2 Comments

The excitement over getting into college often fades once students and parents start to realize the costs involved. And particularly irksome is the cost of textbooks. For most students, the added expense is a boil on a bigger abscess. Most...

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THEATER: [UPDATED] Theater group in license flap

Christine Carrie Fien on February 15th, 2012 - 20 Comments

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...

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Black leaders tell Cuomo to veto Senate redistricting plan

Jeremy Moule on February 15th, 2012 - 2 Comments

A group of local black elected officials say that the proposed State Senate lines are a deliberate attempt to dilute the city's minority vote. The Rochester Black Political Caucus has written Governor Andrew Cuomo (letter at right) to express...

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COST OF WAR (2.22.12)

Jeremy Moule on February 21st, 2012 - 0 Comments

IRAQ TOTALS - 4,484 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 105,343 to 115,048 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to February 10. No...

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URBAN ACTION (2/22-2/29)

Tim Louis Macaluso on February 21st, 2012 - 0 Comments

This week's calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Talk on Islam The University of Rochester will present "Islam and the West," a talk by Kwame Anthony...