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Christine Carrie Fien on July 29th, 2010
City Council member Adam McFadden is hosting a public forum for neighbors and the community on the city's nuisance points system. The forum is from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, August 4.
The next night, Thursday, August 5, there will be a meeting for business owners on the nuisance points
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 29th, 2010
By a vote of 9-2, a county committee has shot down an intermunicipal agreement requested by the city for its pending red-light camera program. Two Democrats joined with seven Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee to reject the proposal.
"We are a bit mystified by the vote," says Gary Walker,
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 28th, 2010
The Ways and Means Committee of the County Legislature is expected to vote tonight on an intermunicipal agreement that would allow the city to install red-light cameras.
The meeting is at 6 p.m. at the County Office Building, 39 West Main Street. The public can address the committee at the beginning
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 28th, 2010
To call 32 Jefferson Terrace a dump would be an insult to dumps everywhere. The ground-floor windows are boarded up, the second-story windows are gone and the frames are smashed and hanging loose, the porch roof is almost completely collapsed, and pieces of the house lie on the sidewalk. It's
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 21st, 2010
However you looked at Midtown, it seemed like you were looking at the back. That was intentional, says city Corporation Counsel Tom Richards. It was designed to keep you inside and spending money.
But Richard said at a press conference this morning, you won't recognize the Midtown property when the revitalization
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 14th, 2010
A running gag in cartoons is the guy or girl carrying a seemingly impossible load. A fly lands on top, and the whole mess crashes to the ground. The fly, though nearly weightless, was just one thing too many.
Something similar is going on in Rochester's Corn Hill neighborhood.
Neighbors were fine,
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Christine Carrie Fien on June 30th, 2010
Not too long ago, I took a tour of Rochester's JOSANA neighborhood, located in the city's troubled Crescent, with City Council member Carla Palumbo. One thing she has learned as an elected official, she said, is that there is no difference between perception and reality when it comes to crime.
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Christine Carrie Fien on June 30th, 2010
It looks like Mayor Bob Duffy is calling RBTL's bluff.
When RBTL board chair Arnie Rothschild announced recently that the organization had selected the Midtown site to build a new theater, he put a number of conditions on that decision. They are: public support from the city to help secure state
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Christine Carrie Fien on June 23rd, 2010
Two task forces have been created to oversee the downtown transit center project, proposed for Mortimer Street. Both groups have just begun their work.
The first is an implementation task force led by City Council member Carla Palumbo. The group is charged with overseeing the execution of the project in its
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Christine Carrie Fien on June 16th, 2010
Your best tool may be your common sense when trying to tell the difference between a legit parking spot and, well, something else.
"There's no way we're going to ever be able to monitor total scoundrels," says City Council member Elaine Spaull. "How can you?"
When parking is at a premium downtown,
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 28th, 2010
My God. Don't you just want to shake these people?
Lump me in with those - Palin, Lazio, Gingrich - opposed to an Islamic cultural center two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center in New York City.
I want a mosque. And I want it at Ground Zero.
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 26th, 2010
My son is 5. He talks incessantly, is not at all interested in sports, and loves, loves, loves Batman. He sings to commercials, to the song on the radio, to tell us what he wants to eat: "MozarELLA Stiiiiccckkkssss!"
He is also the biological child of "Illegal criminal alien invaders," according
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 23rd, 2010
Cool event alert!
The Rochester Contemporary Art Center will hold a street art bike tour at 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 15. The tour begins and ends at the center, 137 East Avenue, and will go on rain or shine.
Four stops are included on the tour: the legal
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 20th, 2010
However you looked at Midtown, it seemed like you were looking at the back. That was intentional, says city Corporation Counsel Tom Richards. It was designed to keep you inside and spending money.
But Richard said at a press conference this morning, you won't recognize the Midtown property when the revitalization
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 19th, 2010
The loss of their two brightest stars - Mayor Bob Duffy and DA Mike Green - would be a big blow to county Democrats, one that could take years to overcome.
Duffy is running for lieutenant governor and Green has been tapped for a federal judgeship.
Duffy's assets are obvious: he's charming,
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 19th, 2010
Opening a specialty grocery store and restaurant in the Brooks Landing area would address two pressing needs: filling the grocery gap left when the Mt. Hope Wegmans closed, and getting rid of the ugliest building in the neighborhood, a vacant house at 826 Genesee Street.
That's been the plan, anyway, for
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Christine Carrie Fien on July 13th, 2010
UPDATE: 4:30 p.m.
You can stop lighting candles and saying novenas, the South Wedge wedge -- a giant cheese sculpture, has been found. The sculpture went missing after Friday, July 9.(see the story below)
"It's a happy ending for the Wedge," says Chris Jones, chair of the Business Association of the South
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Christine Carrie Fien on June 22nd, 2010
It looks like Mayor Bob Duffy is calling RBTL's bluff.
When RBTL board chair Arnie Rothschild announced last week that the organization had selected the Midtown site to build a new theater, he put a number of conditions on that decision. They are: public support from the city to help secure
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Christine Carrie Fien on June 15th, 2010
If you're at all interested in Rochester's future, this is definitely not the week to sleep through.
First up: the transit center. City Council will vote tonight on whether to give up Mortimer Street so RGRTA can build a bus station there. Council took a mostly symbolic vote last month to
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Christine Carrie Fien on June 1st, 2010
The packet of legislation that City Council will consider this month contains a notable omission: there is nothing on the proposed Mortimer Street transit center.
You'll remember that Council took a mostly ceremonial vote last month to support the controversial center. That passed 8-1, with Council member Carolee Conklin
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