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Jeremy Moule on February 3rd, 2012
Medley Centre is paid up, as far as the town, county, and East Irondequoit School District are concerned.
Developer Scott Congel met a February 1 deadline for a $355,901 payment to the Monroe County Industrial Development Agency, the town, and the school district. That was the amount owed
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Jeremy Moule on January 31st, 2012
IRAQ TOTALS - 4,484 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 105,022 to 114,700 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to January 27.
No American casualties were reported after November 14.
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS - 1,889 US servicemen and
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Jeremy Moule on January 27th, 2012
Monroe County Assembly districts are facing changes, and residents in some towns will have new representatives if proposed maps released by a legislative task force yesterday are approved.
Here's a rundown:
Chili, Henrietta, and a question mark shaped section of the city would remain in Democrat Harry Bronson's 131st District,
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Jeremy Moule on January 26th, 2012
A state task force has just released proposed maps of new district lines for state representatives. We're analyzing the data and will have details soon. In the meantime, some links of interest:
Senate proposed map: http://t.co/HMghx2tW
Assembly proposed map: http://t.co/j8p23KXZ
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Jeremy Moule on January 24th, 2012
The House seats held by Kathy Hochul and Tom Reed are increasingly likely to survive redistricting.
As part of the once-a-decade redistricting process, New York has to eliminate two congressional seats. That much was made clear by Census results released in late December 2010. Conventional wisdom was that a Republican
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Jeremy Moule on January 24th, 2012
Governor Andrew Cuomo's state budget proposal for 2012-2013 eliminates a pair of programs that directly impact urban neighborhoods.
Cuomo's plan cuts funding for the state's Rural and Neighborhood Preservation Programs grants, which partially fund neighborhood groups like the South Wedge Planning Committee, Group 14621, North East Area Development, and South
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Jeremy Moule on January 24th, 2012
IRAQ TOTALS - 4,484 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 104,872 to 114,540 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to January 20.
No American casualties were reported after November 14.
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS - 1,880 US servicemen and
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Jeremy Moule on January 18th, 2012
[UPDATED 3:40 p.m.] President Barack Obama has issued a statement saying he's rejecting the Keystone XL proposal.
Obama pinned his decision on House and Senate Republicans, who legislated a deadline for the decision.
"This announcement is not a judgment on the merits of the pipeline, but the arbitrary nature of
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Jeremy Moule on January 17th, 2012
IRAQ TOTALS - 4,484 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 104,602 to 114,268 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to January 13.
No American casualties were reported after November 14.
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS - 1,875 US servicemen and
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Jeremy Moule on January 17th, 2012
When Rochester and Penfield developed their respective cycling master plans, they each gathered substantial input from the bicycling community. Ideas were filtered up from the cyclists themselves.
Now a new working group, convened under the Genesee Transportation Council, formalizes that approach to planning for cycling - and pedestrian - projects. And
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Jeremy Moule on February 3rd, 2012
At approximately 2 a.m. Thursday, Rochester police officers walked into Washington Square Park and asked a group of seven Occupiers for identification. That much is not in dispute.
But several other details about the evening are. Occupy Rochester and its allies say the police were harassing the protesters, but
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Jeremy Moule on February 1st, 2012
Over the last 50 years, Lake Ontario's coastal wetlands have been knocked out of balance, strangely enough, by a plan to balance lake levels.
The plan, which dates back to 1963, tries to balance the needs of hydropower facilities, commercial shipping, recreational boating, and waterside property owners. All are significantly affected
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Jeremy Moule on January 26th, 2012
A state task force released its proposed Assembly and Senate district lines today. I've only had a chance to examine the Senate districts so far, but this much is clear: Monroe County is facing some changes in its representation.
The county will be divided up among six Senate districts,
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Jeremy Moule on January 25th, 2012
President Barack Obama took a muddled approach to energy issues in last night's State of the Union address.
Obama led that part of his speech with a fact: American oil production is at the highest it's been in eight years. His administration, he said, has opened millions of new acres
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Jeremy Moule on January 24th, 2012
One of the driving factors behind shale gas exploration has been economics. Energy companies started drilling and fracking deep, horizontal wells because the natural gas price was high enough that they'd get a good return.
It appears that those economics aren't so favorable anymore.
The website for The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register in
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Jeremy Moule on January 19th, 2012
The House seats held by Kathy Hochul and Tom Reed are increasingly likely to survive redistricting.
As part of the once-a-decade redistricting process, New York has to eliminate two Congressional seats. That much was made clear by Census results released in late December 2010. Conventional wisdom was that a Republican
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Jeremy Moule on January 17th, 2012
The way Monroe County pays its share of Medicaid costs could soon change.
Governor Andrew Cuomo released his 2012-13 budget proposal today, and it includes changes meant to lessen counties' Medicaid costs. Specifically, Cuomo wants the state to pay for any growth in counties' Medicaid obligations. He also wants
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Jeremy Moule on January 17th, 2012
Governor Andrew Cuomo is taking a hard line on teacher evaluations.
During his budget address this afternoon, Cuomo said that a 2010 state law requiring a statewide system of teacher evaluations hasn't worked out. The law was enacted to help New York qualify for the Obama administration's Race
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Jeremy Moule on January 11th, 2012
Today's the day: at 5 p.m., the state's Department of Environmental Conservation is closing off comments for its draft regulations and environmental statement on high-volume hydraulic fracturing. Next, the DEC staff will spend months responding to those comments.
The DEC has a lot of work ahead. As of this morning,
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Jeremy Moule on January 9th, 2012
A well-known brewery in the Cooperstown area says that fracking may force it to relocate or fold.
Brewery Ommegang lays out its case in a friend of the court brief, which it submitted in support of a Town of Middlefield zoning law. That law bans heavy industry, including gas and
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