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CONCERT REVIEW: C.J. Chenier, Chris Duarte at Abilene 26 Aug 2013 | 07:34 pm
C.J. Chenier certainly laissez les bon temps rouler at Abilene Wednesday, August 21. The joint was one big percolatin' dance floor as Chenier and his able crew rocked up the zydeco.… [ Read more ] [...
Week Ahead: Public safety money up for grabs, filling the inner loop, COMIDA projects, lake levels 26 Aug 2013 | 06:51 pm
Rochester Mayor Tom Richards will hold the first of four Voice of the Citizen — Budgeting for Public Safety forums from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Monday, August 26, at the Edgerton Community Center Stardust...
State legislators propose massive environmental financing legislation 23 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
In 1996, New York voters gave the state government permission to borrow $1.75 billion to finance a multitude of environmental and infrastructure projects. That money did a lot of good. It funded open...
Black ministers say parents and students need to make school highest priority 23 Aug 2013 | 07:58 pm
At roughly the same time yesterday that President Obama was swinging through Upstate New York to talk about education, a group of Rochester's African-American ministers were having their own press eve...
POTUS POP IN: Rochester gets a glimpse of Obama 23 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
After a day or so of speculation and preemptive sour grapes, Rochester did, in fact, get a quick, casual visit from President Barack Obama today. (It had been thought that Obama would skip Rochester o...
Concert Review: Kenny Chesney at CMAC 23 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
Dammit, someone lied to me and told me I was going to a country concert! Wednesday night, me and nearly 15,000 music fans piled into CMAC to dig on country superstar Kenny Chesney's "No Shoes Nation"...
DEVELOPING: D&C layoffs hitting newsroom 22 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
[UPDATE 4:55 P.M.] An article posted on the Democrat and Chronicle's website says that the company laid of six full-time workers and one part-time worker today. The article doesn't specify where those...
King uses Rochester as example in fight with Buffalo school leaders 22 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
President Obama's visit may be enough to temporarily shift Buffalo's attention away from the fairly public brawl between Buffalo schools Superintendent Pamela Brown, the school board, the teachers uni...
OBIT: Remembering jazz legend Marian McPartland 22 Aug 2013 | 12:12 am
Marian McPartland, a beloved figure in the jazz world locally, nationally and internationally, died Tuesday, August 20, at the age of 95. She died of natural causes at her Long Island home.… [ Read m...
If the Miami school district can do it, can Rochester? 21 Aug 2013 | 09:24 pm
Though Miami-Dade is a much larger school district, there are plenty of similarities with the Rochester district in that most of Miami is African American and Latino, and the majority of students are ...
