The packet of legislation that City Council will consider this month contains a notable omission: there is no nothing on the proposed Mortimer Street transit center.
You'll remember that Council took a mostly ceremonial vote last month to...

The state's major political news last week came from the Democrats, with the big Bob Duffy announcement. This week, the Republicans get all the fun.
At their state convention in New York City, they'll choose their candidates for governor and for...

The political world sure is turning fast.
Bob Duffy chair isn't even cold yet, and his party is hard at work looking for (fighting over?) a successor.
Lots of names have been tossed out as possible candidates: Molly Clifford, who holds the...

After the November election, Rochester may need a new mayor. The question is, if Bob Duffy gets elected as lieutenant governor, should City Council appoint his replacement or should voters choose in a special election? Duffy's LG candidacy...

Rick Lazio is the designated Republican candidate for governor.
Lazio, who was introduced and nominated by Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks, received almost 57 percent of the delegates' votes at the state Republican convention this...

The state power authority says it has received five proposals for offshore wind projects in Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. The deadline was June 1.
The number of proposals is about all the power authority will tell us, aside from a timeline for...

Are the readers of the Rochester Business Journal out of their minds?
In a snap poll late last month, RBJ asked this question: "Would Mayor Robert Duffy's election as lieutenant governor be positive or negative for Rochester?"
Sixty-three...

Brockport may be the test case for dissolving a village under a new state law, but Macedon could be next in line.
The Democrat and Chronicle reported yesterday that members of One Macedon are passing petitions to put the issue to vote. That's...

Despite the stomach-turning images of birds and other marine life dazed and drenched in oil, that float across our television and computer screens, the Gulf oil spill is down the list of President Obama's top priorities.
A sputtering economy...

There is a curious three-way kerfuffle over Mayor Bob Duffy's income.
It all started with a Wall Street Journal article questioning Duffy's "double dipping." He gets his $124,000-plus salary for being mayor and his $70,000 pension for being a...

Some farm market organizers want Monroe County officials to lower permit fees for prepared food vendors at local markets. This sounds like a quintessential local issue, but it's significant at the state level, too.
That was illustrated during...

Almost as soon Mayor Bob Duffy was picked to be Andrew Cuomo's running mate, you could hear the sighs: What about mayoral control?
The message from supporters: mayoral control is not dead. Mayoral governance, the concept, is being born.
"This...

Well, this should be interesting.
For months, it has seemed as if Bob Duffy, Joe Morelle, and David Gantt were the just about the only people supporting mayoral control of the Rochester School District. But this afternoon, a group calling itself...

A Zogby Interactive survey says that 66 percent of Americans see the gulf oil spill as "a disaster that will cause long term environmental and economic damage."
I really don't understand why that number isn't higher. We hear day after day that...

Attorney Van White, who announced his candidacy for State Assembly yesterday, needs a public-relations advisor.
White hopes to challenge longtime Assembly member David Gantt in a Democratic primary in September. But White doesn't live in Gantt's...

When city school board member Van White said he wanted to run in the 133rd District against Assembly member David Gantt, it sounded pretty gutsy. I was looking forward to a political version of a monster truck derby.
But White's residency is...

Robin Reynolds Wilt is the latest Democrat who will try to unseat Republican Senator Joe Robach.
By doing so, she's joining the likes of Rochester School Board member Willa Powell, County Legislator Harry Bronson, and Rick Dollinger, the state...

Today marks a make-or-break point in the debate over shale drilling. The State Senate's environmental committee meets at noon - the last meeting of the session - and on the agenda is a bill to establish a one-year moratorium on drilling in the...

If you're at all interested in Rochester's future, this is definitely not the week to sleep through.
First up: the transit center. City Council will vote tonight on whether to give up Mortimer Street so RGRTA can build a bus station there....

Education after high school is clearly a prerequisite for attaining a middle class lifestyle, says the New York Times.
That's no surprise. The article refers to a new report by Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce....