A week from today is an important election day, and not just in Rochester. While I'm watching the local returns come in, I'll also be watching for results from Mississippi. Voters there will decide whether state law will consider fertilized human...

Came across this on local activist Emily Good's Facebook page today:

"This is how activists in Greece oppose the banks: take great care to blow them up without hurting anyone. People may gripe about this being "violence" but I would...

Occupy Rochester's rally and march tonight has the potential to be a Very Big Deal. Our local occupiers may be joined by activists from Occupy Buffalo. Other groups are trying to get their members to participate, too, including the Rochester and...

The Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council has picked nine projects that it says could have a substantial impact on the region's economy.
The projects are part of the council's draft five-year strategic plan. The final version of...

Last night's Occupy Rochester rally and march was a relatively tame affair. Yet some people were arrested last night - Channel 10 says there were 16 arrests -- after the Occupiers tried to stay in Washington Square Park past its closing...

There are times when I question whether the US is experiencing a debt crisis or a power struggle over who will pay for government spending.
Nearly every Republican presidential candidate is campaigning on cutting corporate taxes. They...

Mayor Tom Richards says he is not going to allow Occupy Rochester to camp overnight in Washington Square Park. Period.
In an interview this morning, Richards said city regulations do not allow for camping in Rochester's parks. But the City Code...

The Occupy movement and its affiliates have been criticized - incorrectly - for its lack of focus and defined issues.
Well, an Occupy-aligned group in Rochester is going to focus on a specific issue next Monday: the complications of...

At the risk of sounding like a Tax and Spend Democrat, I have to say that I was dismayed to see the Dems in the County Legislature announcing yesterday that they want to lower the county property-tax rate slightly.
I assume voters will see...

On Tuesday, voters will decide whether County Executive Maggie Brooks gets another term in office, or whether Sandy Frankel will get her job.
This is a race that had a lot of potential. Both Brooks and Frankel are stars in their political...

Most of the candidates vying for one of four seats on the Rochester school board have talked about heady issues ranging from budget management to corporate influence on education.
But little of that concerned Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas...

There's going to be a lot of talk about last night's election results and what drove the victories and defeats.
But Republican gains in the County Legislature may be the easiest to explain. They can be attributed to the usual factors like...

So Monroe County re-elected Maggie Brooks - a leader whose bold vision begins and ends with keeping taxes flat (except not really) - to a historic third term. But Brooks' attorney, Bill Taylor, went down hard in the DA race to Democrat Sandra...

There's little but the obvious to say about County Executive Maggie Brooks' easy defeat of Democrat Sandy Frankel yesterday. Frankel had plenty of ammunition, in terms of issues, but she didn't run a strong campaign. Tough fund-raising was...

The Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council will deliver the final version of its five-year strategic plan to the state by 4 p.m. on Monday, November 14. (View the previous draft)
The state will then decide if the region will be...

Occupy Rochester appears to be making progress in its goal to establish a 24-encampment in Washington Square Park.
City Council member Dana Miller says he and other unspecified members of Council have separately approached the city...

It's impossible to know what goes on in the minds of voters. For all of the vitriolic comments targeted at Rochester school board members, we might have expected sweeping changes. But that's far from what happened in Tuesday's election.
Voters...

A leader of Rochester's Tea Party organization is calling for Mayor Tom Richards to stop the arrests of Washington Square Park Occupiers.
Chris Edes, who organized two Tea Parties in the city this year and says he's speaking for the group,...

Occupy Rochester has a contract offer from Rochester Mayor Tom Richards that would allow overnight tent camping in Washington Square Park. Camping would only be allowed on the grassy areas on the south side of the central monument.

Let me come to the defense of Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Seriously.
I'm as opposed to Perry as anybody. And I'd be horrified if he became president. But he's being ridiculed and humiliated for momentarily forgetting something in Wednesday...