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The Fight for Washington Square (Nov. 1) The Occupiers versus the Selling of America (Opinion, Nov. 1) Occupy action: Bank-transfer theater? (Blog, Nov. 4) Tom Richards on Occupy Rochester (Nov. 3) Occupy Rochester Won't Hurt Washington Square Park (Blog, Nov. 3) Occupy Rochester Event Tonight Could be Huge (Blog, Nov. 2) Occupy Rochester Participants Arrested (Oct.
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Best fast-food trend: gourmet food trucks Food trucks have been trending nationally for a while now - Food Network has aired two seasons of "The Great Food Truck Race," a reality show devoted to them. Now it seems like Rochester is starting to get hip to the benefits of mobile
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It's campaign season, and with the elections so close, your local candidates are appearing at forums and other events to try and win your vote. Upcoming events are listed below. This list will be updated as necessary. If you'd like your forum listed, please send information to cfien@rochester-citynews.com. CANDIDATE APPEARANCES Meet the
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This is a corrected version of this story. If the results of the city's 2011 Democratic primaries had a message, it's that they lacked a message. There were a few upsets, but no true anti-incumbent sweeps. Voters made no broad statements; each race was influenced by its own
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by Tom Hayden After witnessing the first jetliner crash into the Twin Towers on that September 11 morning, a friend of mine's wife and 7-year-old daughter fled to their nearby Manhattan loft and ran to the roof to look around. From there, they saw the second plane explode
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UPDATE: Mia Hodgins is not a candidate in the Democratic primary election. She has the endorsement of the Working Families Party and will run in the general election. For city school board: Campos, Evans, Powell UPDATED 9/01/11: As a reader has pointed out, our discussion of school board incumbents Malik
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City endorses in the City Council, County Legislature, and Rochester school board races.
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Mayor Tom Richards will join Andrew Turner, chief of customer satisfaction, and William Ansbrow, the city's budget director, for the three more "Voice of the Customer" sessions on the proposed 2011-12 budget. The dates and locations for the sessions are as follows. * Wednesday, April 27, 6 p.m. at the South Avenue
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The Rochester City School District may close elementary School 2 and 6 after the next school year. The buildings would be used as "swing space," a school spokesperson says, while the facilities modernization program, a massive renovation effort, takes place. That means that students from other buildings would be housed
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Welcome to City's Election Night Coverage with staff writers Jeremy Moule, Tim Macaluso, and Christine Carrie Fien. 11:30 p.m. (JEREMY) We're calling it a night, folks. Thanks for checking in with us and make sure to check back tomorrow when we'll be able to better process and contextualize these results. 11:20 p.m.
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City Deputy Mayor Patricia Malgieri is resigning to take a job in the private sector. An announcement about her new job will take place soon, according to a press release sent out by City Hall this afternoon. Malgieri's resignation is effective in three weeks. She was appointed deputy mayor in December
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City Council will hold a special meeting at 10 a.m. on Thursday, September 30, to authorize the sale of Midtown Tower and part of the former Midtown Plaza to developers Robert Morgan and David Christa. The two parcels would be sold for $1 each. The $70 million redevelopment of the Tower
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City Council will hold the first of two public forums on Tuesday, April 27, 6 to 7:30 p.m., in the community room of the Ryan Community Center, 530 Webster Avenue. Following an opening statement by Council President Lovely Warren, presentations will be made by City Corporation Counsel Tom Richards, City Commissioner
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While Rochester waits for a long-delayed mayoral control bill to come out of Albany, Mayor Bob Duffy this afternoon issued his third report on the topic. The report is titled "Serving Children and Parents First -- Part II -- Implementing Mayoral Accountability." It calls for the establishment of a Parent University to
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 The Rev. Emmitte Myrick Jr., president of the Baptist Ministers' Alliance, and the Rev. Shirley Billups-Bell, president of United Church Ministries, will hold a forum on mayoral control at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 4. The forum is at the Helping Hand Missionary Baptist Church, 703 Joseph Avenue.
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RBTL at Midtown? It's a possibility. In a phone interview this afternoon, Mayor Bob Duffy said that if it's not economically feasible to renovate the Auditorium Theater, he'd like RBTL to consider Midtown as a possible new home, specifically, the former McCurdy's site. RBTL was going to be the primary tenant of
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White, Cruz, and Elliott win School Board seats The fight for three seats on the Rochester School Board did, as expected, come down to three candidates: incumbents Van Henri White and Cynthia Elliott, and newcomer Jose Cruz. All three are winners tonight.While there were no upsets, getting
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Given the number and severity of scandals that have infected our community recently - Robutrad, Renaissance Square, the Greece Police mess - we thought it only fitting to present our 2009 election preview in a tabloid, "the City Newspaper Spoiler." (A drinking game might have worked, too. Take a shot
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CHILI Chili's politics are messy, personal, and repetitive - with the same old faces showing up in new and old places. Things got especially delicious in the Republican primary when John Ferlicca hired a private dick to dig through Supervisor David Dunning's figurative trash. It was a new low, shocking to
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We picture a Western: Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks sits atop a runaway stagecoach, desperately clutching at reins that dangle just outside her grasp, while twin nags Renaissance and Robutrad pound frantically across an expanse of prairie, kicking up geysers of brown dirt. Once upon a time, Brooks had it all:
