Taxpayers will be protected. The stadium will revitalize the Brown Square neighborhood. Attendance will be strong. Other groups will clamor to use it. The number of false, broken, and partly-realized promises...
A dissolution battle in Brockport
A new group has formed to fight efforts to dissolve the Village of Brockport. Pro-Brockport is...
EDUCATION: Brizard pushing for major changes
Rochester Schools Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard will unveil a sweeping plan this week that...
CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Terror in the courts
Americans are divided on whether suspected terrorists should be tried in military or criminal...
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MAYORAL CONTROL: Media schedule a televised forum
WXXI, in partnership with City Newspaper and WDKX, will present a live, two-hour forum on April 1 on mayoral control of the Rochester school district. Panel members will be Mayor Bob Duffy, School Board President Malik Evans, and Joseph...
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EDUCATION: [Updated Wed., 3/10] City graduation rates fall
The Rochester School District's four-year graduation rate has dropped back below 50 percent. The New York State Education Department's latest data shows the rate for the 2008-2009 school year fell to 46 percent. That is a drop of 6 percent...
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ENVIRONMENT: City and state reach deal on Hemlock and Canadice land
City Council should soon get legislation that will authorize the sale of city-owned land around Hemlock and Canadice Lakes to the state. In a statement released over the weekend, Mayor Bob Duffy said the city and state Department of...
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The 1979 core meltdown at Three Mile Island, outside of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, so scared Americans that no new nuclear plants have been built since. It wasn't due to some official prohibition or anything like that. Instead, the plants just...
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IRAQ TOTALS - 4,380 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 95,593 to 104,291 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to March 8. American...
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St. Patrick's Day is filled with corned beef and cabbage, shamrocks, tacky bright green...
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Step right up to the greatest show in town: City Newspaper's Best of Rochester 2009! Every...
This past weekend I took my nieces and nephew sledding at Harris Whalen Park in Penfield....
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