Government & Politics
Council approves 2025-26 budget in 6-3 vote
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The more than $680 million spending plan, $27 million less than a year ago, includes no increase to the property tax levy.
Environment
New study aims to solve energy efficiency stalemate in rentals
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The Climate Solutions Accelerator of the Genesee-Finger Lakes Region and the Urban Institute are looking for solutions to the “split incentive,” where tenants and landlords often find themselves at odds over energy-efficient upgrades.
GUEST OPINION
How RG&E and the PSC are failing us
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If the Public Service Commission is not going to effectively regulate utilities, it must help create new publicly-owned utilities.
Community
RPL rolls out new library on wheels
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The RPL GO! van provides access to Rochester Public Library services while also expanding visibility of the library system.
Community
Thousands here join the ‘No Kings’ protests
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Participants in the local rallies were part of “a nationwide day of defiance to reject authoritarianism.”
Letters
Shashi Sinha will reverse Rochester’s decline
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As mayor, Malik Evans has failed to address the city’s two festering problems: crime and education. Shashi Sinha will give Rochester the leadership it needs.
GUEST OPINION
Resist the push to ban books
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Book bans and other attempts to restrict access to knowledge serve to keep people isolated, uninformed, and susceptible to authoritarianism. We need to protect academic freedom for our children.
Letters
Vote blue no matter… hold on
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In Rochester, poverty and despair are creeping in at the edges from all directions. New government is needed.
Culture
A space for creativity and healing
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Cocoa Rae David’s Da Purp studio in Southwest Rochester provides access for communities that have been historically oppressed or excluded from traditional creative spaces.
Government & Politics
The Rochester mayoral money race
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Incumbent Malik Evans has the financial edge over his challengers, Mary Lupien and Shashi Sinha, in the June 24 primary. But each candidate has enough money to fuel a final push.