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Jeremy Moule on November 19th, 2008
Tom Bonadio will lead the private fund-raising effort for Renaissance Square.
Bonadio, the managing partner of the Bonadio Group accounting firm, was tapped by the Main and Clinton Local Development Corp. He'll serve on a volunteer basis and plans to establish a team of six to 12 people to help him
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Jeremy Moule on November 19th, 2008
Things are about to get interesting out in Hamlin.
During his community forum in Irondequoit last night, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo told a group of Hamlin residents that he'd send an environmental attorney to look into the town's wind tower regulations and the circumstances under which they were passed. He was
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Jeremy Moule on November 19th, 2008
Don't envy the people putting government budgets together right now, because chances are they're having a hard time making the numbers work.
A picture of how governments will respond to a gloomy financial forecast has started to emerge. In one day last week, there were three different budget discussions unfolding in
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Jeremy Moule on November 18th, 2008
Renaissance Square project leaders have scheduled a press conference for tomorrow morning to announce the leaders of a private fund-raising drive.
The $230 million project, as it's currently planned, will feature a new bus station, Monroe Community College campus, and theater. The bus station and college campus are funded
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Jeremy Moule on November 12th, 2008
County Executive Maggie Brooks' 2009 budget proposal dusts off an old trick - one-shot revenues. Brooks has proposed closing a $33 million budget gap, in part, by selling $22 million in tax liens.
In the past, the county has used tobacco settlement funds or sold property. But the tobacco funds are
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Jeremy Moule on November 11th, 2008
In Monroe County, it's the same old senators in a whole new Senate. (See a slideshow of Election Day images.)
Republicans Joe Robach, Jim Alesi, George Maziarz, and Michael Nozzolio will return to the State Senate in January - all having defeated their challengers - but with one big difference: they're
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Jeremy Moule on November 10th, 2008
It's looking more and more like Democrat Eric Massa will be the next representative of the 29th Congressional District.
On Election Day, he pulled in 51 percent of the vote, compared to the 49 percent received by Republican incumbent Randy Kuhl. In the Monroe County portion of the district, Massa
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Jeremy Moule on November 6th, 2008
Scratch another chore off the list for the board of the Main and Clinton Local Development Corp.
During a meeting this morning, the board members - which include County Executive Maggie Brooks and Mayor Bob Duffy - approved an operating plan for Renaissance Square's theater.
The plan, which has been kicking around
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Jeremy Moule on November 5th, 2008
So here we are, at the end of a presidential election that cost close to $1 billion; a slate of State Senate races that cost more than $40 million; and local Congressional races that cost at least $2 million each - save the low-key race run by Democrat Louise Slaughter
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Jeremy Moule on November 4th, 2008
All is not well in the 56th Senate District.
County Republicans have obtained a court order to impound absentee,affidavit, and emergency ballots from the district, reports WHEC channel 10.Board of Elections staff confirm that the ballots have been impounded.
WHEC's report says the order means that the ballots can't be counted until
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Jeremy Moule on November 20th, 2008
So the media's having a blast speculating on who will replace Senator Hillary Clinton if President-elect Obama appoints Clinton secretary of state.
It's looking increasingly likely. Bill Clinton is reportedly making promises to curtail his international work and do whatever else is necessary to help his wife get the job.
Yesterday, poll
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Jeremy Moule on November 17th, 2008
Here's some unsolicited advice for Governor David Paterson: if you wind up having to pick a new senator for New York, choose someone from upstate.
It's all over the news that Senator Hillary Clinton is under consideration to serve as President-elect Obama's secretary of state. And if she's chosen, Paterson will
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Jeremy Moule on November 12th, 2008
Democratic US Senator Chuck Schumer says that the new president and expanded Congressional Democratic majority will be good for the Rochester and Finger Lakes region.
Among the promises he made during a Rochester visit today: increased infrastructure funding, more federal money for Medicaid, more funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program
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Jeremy Moule on November 7th, 2008
There's one figure that author and environmentalist Bill McKibben really wants you to know: 350 parts per million.
That's the number that NASA climate guru James Hansen has established as the tipping point of global climate disaster. It's how much carbon dioxide can be in the atmosphere without causing permanent climate
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Jeremy Moule on November 5th, 2008
The Democrats' new State Senate majority is a fragile one.
Though some races haven't been called yet, Democrats will have, at minimum, a 32-30 majority in the Senate come January. They picked up a couple of downstate seats, and held onto some important upstate and Buffalo-area seats.
But there's already trouble in
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Jeremy Moule on November 4th, 2008
It's encouraging to see the number of people out today either voting or engaged in the civic discourse.
When I was at my polling place this morning, one guy in front of me was enthusiastically talking with a poll worker about how it was his first time voting in a presidential
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Jeremy Moule on October 31st, 2008
Looks like we may have gotten suckered.
Earlier today we blogged that State Senate candidate Rick Dollinger had gotten the long-delayed backing of Mayor Robert Duffy. We wrote this based on a campaign mailer featuring what sure looks like a Duffy endorsement. (The Dollinger mailer and a similar mailer for Robach
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Jeremy Moule on October 29th, 2008
In the chaos of the final week of campaigning, momentum is shifting in some of the area's Congressional races. So say the politically obsessed pros that follow the stuff.
We're talking about rankings here - how various nonpartisan political websites think the specific races are going to go.
Case in point: the
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Jeremy Moule on October 22nd, 2008
Henrietta has crossed the blue line: the majority of its registered voters are now Democratic.
So says data released this week from the Monroe County Board of Elections. It shows four suburbs that now have a Democratic majority. There's Brighton and Irondequoit, which were already Democratic. And there's Gates, which also
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Jeremy Moule on October 14th, 2008
It was only a matter of time before the Wall Street bailout became fodder for local races.
Today, Democratic State Senate candidate Rick Dollinger called a press conference to talk about the money that some financial firms have given to Senate Republicans. Some of that, he reasons, trickled down to his
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