Wow, something I can really dig! Hat tip to reader and commenter, Andrea for this:
Dig In! Support the Growth of Community Gardens
Announcing
Growing Together
Community Garden Conference
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Location
Rochester City Hall, Atrium
30 Church St. Rochester, NY 14614
Free parking available at City Hall
Morning Tour
9am - Noon
$15 per person (includes lunch / limited [...]
The Democrat & Chronicle reports that City Councilmember Lovely Warren will take control of the Rochester City Council as its president next year. Warren works for Democrat State Assemblyman David Gantt and will most likely take her lead on all matters coming before City Council from Gantt himself. That’s a very, [...]
I was under the impression that area politicians are not only here to govern said jurisdiction but also to act as a promoter of the people and places that they represent. Why are the Democrats not doing that any longer? City Council in Rochester this past week voted to spend [...]
The Ferry Company has finally dissolved (pending approval from City Council next year). Via the D&C
Members of the city’s ferry board met briefly Thursday to terminate a lease with the Toronto Port Authority with a $90,000 settlement, and to dissolve the Rochester Ferry Co.
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The Toronto terminal lease was a [...]
Leave it to the New York State Senate Democrats — they are wasting our money (over $200,000 a year) on a political office right here in Rochester. Hats off to Evan Axelbank over at channel 8 for exposing this waste of taxpayers money.
[...]The D&C reported over the weekend that the Monroe County Sports Commission and the Greater Rochester Sports Authority are both sham operations, drawing off tax dollars for no good purpose. At the center of both entities, and drawing large contracts and free office space from Monroe County for his private company, is promoter Jim [...]
Welcome to another week that was on Rochesterturning. Felons and cowards and dreamers Oh, My! Felons and cowards and dreamers in the form of a convicted leader of the State Senate, a teary profile in cowardice by another State Senator and dashed expectations from the White House.
We know how the [...]
When parishioners at The Glory of Christ Church in the Parkchester section of The Bronx arrived for service on Sunday morning, they found their church—located in a formerly run-down synagogue that they'd lovingly rescued from decay—reduced to a smoldering ruin. The fire, which broke out' [...]
Our good friend Philbrick has a great post on Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy’s hiring of a convicted felon who was arrested for an alleged rape of a city resident while he was on the job. Philbrick rightly points out that if this was a Republican hire, it would be [...]
Welcome to another week that was on Rochesterturning. As always, lots going on - NYS continues not giving equal rights to gay people. RBTL gets pitched, Monroe County fails to collect rent for 7 years, We escalate in Afghanistan to the chagrin of local Congressional members, and a local activist [...]
MONDAY, Dec. 7 at 7:00 pm
Cinema Theatre, corner of Goodman St.
and Clinton Ave S, Rochester NY
($2.00 each)
Another reminder why meaningful health care reform is so important in the US.
Related posts:Panel Discussion on “Sicko” at the Little tomorrow[...]
Today marks the 2,982nd day of this war, and I think it’s time that we commit our tax dollars and efforts on rebuilding the roads and schools of Rochester, Olean and Elmira instead of on nation-building in Kabul, Kandahar and Herat. Now we are going to continue [...]
This shaky surveillance video shows an unidentified man brazenly slashing the tires of three NYPD Parking Enforcement cars in broad daylight on Monday in Parkchester. (It was either very windy out, or the surveillance cam was afraid it would be slashed next, because it can't stop trembling!) The cars were' [...]
Where, oh where should the Rochester Broadway Theatre League build it’s new theatre?
To me, it seems like a no-brainer - in Rochester, of course. Yesterday, the suburbs and the city made their presentations to the league’s site selection committee in hopes of plucking that plum, but apparently the [...]
With our recent problems regarding peaceful demonstrations in the city of Rochester, maybe it’s time to learn the dos and don’ts of public activism.
Repeal of DOMA and DADT are the driving issues and the Local LGBT community has put together an evening workshop to help us sort [...]
Cops cuffed a 17-year-old accused of stabbing and killing 18-year-old Nelson Rafael Pena near the corner of Hester and Forsyth Streets on Nov. 18. Police charged Victor Fong with second-degree murder when he surrendered at the [...]
Welcome to another week that was on Rochesterturning. It was a shortened holiday week as the crew at RT gathered around their respective Thanksgiving dinner tables. Still, we had a Republican State Senator advocating for more government, closing arguments in the ex-State Senator Bruno Trial, Rep. Louise Slaughter focusing on [...]
(A press release from Congressman Chris Lee)
Congressman Chris Lee (NY-26) announced that his office will be collecting non-perishable food items to donate to Rochester Foodlink. The food collection drive will begin on Monday, November 30 and run through Monday, January 4, 2010. Members of the community wishing to donate items [...]
