Looks like everybody's mad at everybody, yes?
Ren Square died, at last, this morning, but not without a final, bizarre twist. County Exec Maggie Brooks, transit authority chief Mark Aesh, Mayor Bob Duffy, and City Council member...

After months of deliberation and scathing public criticism - much of it directed at Rochester Schools Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard - the Rochester School Board backed away from approving some of the 170 teacher layoffs that Brizard had...

Well, well, well.
The most popular part of Ren Square was the new downtown home for Monroe Community College. And now we learn from the Democrat and Chronicle that MCC needed more space than it was going to get in Ren Square.
With Ren Square...

The most telling moment in Representative Eric Massa's health-care town hall meeting last night was when he asked for a show of hands on whether he should support the bill. Almost every hand went up as a "no."
The problem, though, was that...

We hear a lot about how technological advances and breakthroughs are needed to advance clean energy, we hear a lot less about the headway scientists and researchers are actually making.
Take this idea: a three-layer liquid battery that stores...

Definitely worth a read: "Cheney Unleashes His Frustration with Bush" in today's Washington Post. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is writing a memoir, and the Post article is based on interviews with people with whom Cheney has discussed the...

Ren Square itself may be dead, but the afterlife of the site and its components continues to make news. In an interview this morning, Mayor Bob Duffy was upbeat as he talked about downtown Rochester.
On the Main and Clinton corner: Duffy is...

As many activists have said in the past few days, the time has long passed for compromise on health-care reform. The country needs a single-payer system. It's the only system that makes sense. Single payer was off the table in Washington from...

The buzz among many economists is that the Great Recession is over.
Of course, for many people in Upstate New York, the recession of the 1990's came and never left.
A new report on Indeed.com on jobless rates in 50 US cities looks at the...

In what is probably the best response so far to a town hall right-wing nut at an event in Dartmouth, Rep. Barney Frank confronted a woman who compared President Obama to a Nazi.
Let's just say she picked the wrong person; Frank gave her a...

There hasn't been anyone like Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy.
And, to Democrats, there probably never will be.
Kennedy was a champion of liberal causes that span decades of service under 10 presidents. His loss leaves a remarkable...

City School Board members met in executive session last night to discuss the flap over Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard's salary increase. Per his contract, he got a 4-percent increase in January, tied to the Consumer Price Index.
The...