Jiminy Christmas! For anyone hoping for an Obama victory in November, the Republican presidential competition is proving to be an awful lot of fun.
Yesterday, everybody seemed to think that Mitt Romney had the nomination locked up. The most...
February 8, 2012 at 1:03pm
Jiminy Christmas! For anyone hoping for an Obama victory in November, the Republican presidential competition is proving to be an awful lot of fun.
Yesterday, everybody seemed to think that Mitt Romney had the nomination locked up. The most...
February 8, 2012 at 10:31am
There's a negotiating tactic where one side in the discussion makes an outlandish proposal, knowing full well the other side will reject it. The proposers are really interested in a different offering, which will look much more appealing to...
… Read moreFebruary 7, 2012 at 2:56pm
According to the League of Conservation Voters, Republican Ann Marie Buerkle has the worst environmental voting record of Rochester's House delegation. And she has the second worst record of all of New York's representatives.
Today, the...
February 7, 2012 at 1:15pm
Just in from the Washington Post: a federal appeals court has ruled that California's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional. Proposition 8 was approved by a slim majority of the state's voters in 2008.
February 6, 2012 at 10:43am
The New York Times seems to have a warm spot in its heart for Rochester.
In their coverage of the Kodak bankruptcy, Times writers have been careful to note that we've replaced many of the jobs that we've lost with the decline of...
February 6, 2012 at 10:08am
The MCC Board of Trustees meets this afternoon to discuss the college's lease at the Sibley Building.
This story has broadened in scope over the last few weeks. MCC's lease expired last December, and the college and WinnDevelopment - which...
February 3, 2012 at 5:16pm
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...
February 3, 2012 at 4:56pm
The enormous support shown for Planned Parenthood this past week has been a big, beautiful bright spot in what has been a troubling period of assault on women's rights and women's health.
First there's been the conflict between the Obama...
February 3, 2012 at 1:08pm
I am intrigued and bothered by this LeRoy "mystery illness" case. What's really eating at me is the dismissal by some of the "conversion disorder" diagnosis. And I'm not saying that the victims, families, and their doctors shouldn't...
… Read moreFebruary 3, 2012 at 10:22am
For the country, and for President Obama, this morning's report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was really good news. The economy added substantially more jobs in January than had been expected, and the unemployment rate has dropped yet...
February 2, 2012 at 2:51pm
Before music videos became the industry's 24-hour marketing machine, there were a handful of television shows that mixed music, dance, and live performance. And few held the attention of generations of teens like "Soul Train."
Creator and...
February 2, 2012 at 1:44pm
FINALLY! Finally, someone has put into words what's been bothering me about Mitt Romney.
Much has been made of Romney's pitch-perfect appearance, and he certainly seems like the candidate programmed by central casting. But there's something...
February 1, 2012 at 3:19pm
Another Rochester neighborhood is worried it could lose its YMCA. The Southwest YMCA on Thurston Road is less than a handful of miles away from where the Collegetown YMCA would be, if that deal goes through.
A few weeks ago we reported that...
February 1, 2012 at 1:33pm
How much do we need to know about political candidates' personal lives and beliefs?
Does it matter whether candidates subscribe to a particular religious faith? And if a candidate is active in a particular religious organization - and is a...
February 1, 2012 at 10:51am
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...
January 31, 2012 at 12:31pm
Despite the suspense and theatrics since Newt Gingrich won South Carolina, today's Florida primary probably won't tell us much. A week from now, it's likely that four candidates will still be competing for the Republican presidential...
… Read moreJanuary 30, 2012 at 11:41am
I continue to be troubled by the lack of transparency in the effort to review the police oversight system. I first called for greater transparency back in October when I happened to catch notice of an upcoming meeting in a City Council...
January 30, 2012 at 10:18am
Rochester Interim Superintendent Bolgen Vargas will hold three public meetings this week to let parents and community groups discuss their priorities for the 2012-2013 budget prior to its development. More public meetings will be held after the...
… Read moreJanuary 26, 2012 at 5:24pm
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...
January 26, 2012 at 10:35am
What a ride....
Two days ago, Newt Gingrich had an impressive lead in polls in Florida. This morning, according to Real Clear Politics, Romney's ahead in Florida. And he's eating away at Gingrich's brief lead in national polls.
And...

I, too, feel the knee-jerk dismissal of the mental health diagnosis is wrong-headed. While it...
"Papers? Papers? Let me see your papers please." (Where have we heard that before?) And...
Now the the Water Town Times is reporting NY will probably back down on its ballast water...
Romney was born in '47 and was 21 - not 32 - when King was murdered in '68. Rich makes the point...
CharlieM said:
Good for Buerkle for not caving in to the job-killing, sky is falling environmental crazies.
about Some Congress members greener than others