Follow Rochester City Newspaper - News, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/rochestercitynewspaper2 Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:56:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzDpzNP8vYxQlnn9ye8UNv30 City Councilmember Jose Peo says he has apologized to his colleague, Mary Lupien, for lewd remarks about her on his podcast. Rochester City Councilmember Jose Peo on Wednesday issued a public apology to his colleague, fellow city lawmaker Mary Lupien, for lewd comments that were made about her earlier this month on Peo's podcast. Peo came under fire this week when CITY reported on a segment of his podcast, "Politically Correcting with Jose Peo," in which a co-host of the show suggested that Lupien would have sex with him and pondered whether she would wear a facemask while submitting to a sex act.…]]> Wed, 29 Jun 2022 20:37:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzDpzNP8vYxQlnn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzDIm33qK6JtH-zdsCmHakzH After a roughly two-month delay, the committee tasked with drawing new districts for the Monroe County Legislature is scheduled to meet Thursday. After a roughly two month delay, the committee tasked with drawing new districts for the Monroe County Legislature is scheduled to meet Thursday.…]]> Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:38:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzDIm33qK6JtH-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzDFgLwQroqZiSlmFkX7M1Jw City Council Vice President Mary Lupien was the target of sexual remarks on a podcast hosted by her colleague, Jose Peo. Most episodes of “Politically Correcting with Jose Peo,” a weekly eponymous podcast hosted by the conservative-leaning Democratic member of the Rochester City Council, are the same: Peo and his co-hosts banter over beer about cancel culture, progressive politics, and “woke” ideals. The show often meanders and has a trend toward middle-school humor that hinges on innuendo.…]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:28:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzDFgLwQroqZiSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzD4rJgG9UjYRylmFkX7M1Jw Supporters defended the centers following a CITY story on one local facility and the state's plan to study the tactics of others like it. Choose life I am greatly disappointed that the story "Lawmakers take aim at pregnancy resource centers" in the June issue was just another "us versus them" story about abortion rights. Here are just a few of my disappointments:…]]> Mon, 27 Jun 2022 16:32:02 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzD4rJgG9UjYRylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzDmMLf1wYEya3n9ye8UNv30 In an oft-overlooked election, the Rochester City Court race sees four candidates battle for an influential seat on the bench. Rochester’s City Court races aren’t known for firing up the electorate, but make no mistake, these often overlooked contests have critical implications. As the arbiter of misdemeanor and violation cases that occur within city limits, judges affect the very lives of the people that appear in front of them.…]]> Thu, 23 Jun 2022 20:08:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzDmMLf1wYEya3n9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzAT_I2jYSVlJSlmFkX7M1Jw The Police Accountability Board Alliance has called on City Council to release the board's funding, in-full, for the 2023 fiscal year. A group of Police Accountability Board supporters on Wednesday called for the Rochester City Council to stop withholding funding from the agency and to swiftly approve its selections for vacant board seats. The demand came from the Police Accountability Board Alliance, which is a coalition of city residents who for years campaigned for the creation of the Police Accountability Board.…]]> Wed, 22 Jun 2022 20:49:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzAT_I2jYSVlJSlmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCmUtDD4T-Ppnn9ye8UNv30 The Public Market is its own small economy, which is changing in response to the pandemic, supply chain interruptions, labor shortages and high gas prices.]]> Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCmUtDD4T-Ppnn9ye8UNv30 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCmUtDD4T-PpuzdsCmHakzH ]]> Wed, 22 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCmUtDD4T-PpuzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzD3PReDAX8_cylmFkX7M1Jw Alarm over mass shootings obscures the everyday gun violence that is killing Americans and can be curbed. In a single month following the mass shooting on May 14 in Buffalo, 33 people were shot — five fatally — on the streets of Rochester, according to police. Combined, the casualties in that span would constitute one of the bloodiest mass shootings in America this year if they occurred all in one incident.…]]> Mon, 20 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzD3PReDAX8_cylmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzBV7bxIzJEQjqCY3L745TL_ City Council passed a $627 million spending plan Tuesday that makes investments in public safety and libraries. A divided City Council on Tuesday passed a budget for the upcoming fiscal year that begins July 1. The $627 million spending plan marks the first of May Malik Evans' term and a $55 million increase over the previous year’s budget.…]]> Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:12:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzBV7bxIzJEQjqCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzAFmzGucajfq-T5HJgy6HUf Larry Knox, a longtime political organizer for 1199 SEIU, has been tapped as the Police Accountability Board's new chairperson. The Rochester Police Accountability Board on Monday tapped longtime labor union political organizer Larry Knox as its new chairperson. Knox replaces Shani Wilson, the founding chair of the PAB, who announced her resignation Friday.…]]> Tue, 14 Jun 2022 01:40:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzAFmzGucajfq-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzArHpk-R6PCauT5HJgy6HUf The bill, signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul, kick starts a study into whether the facilities manipulate women out of abortions. The state will study whether pregnancy resource centers use coercive tactics to convince women not to have abortions under legislation signed Monday by Gov. Kathy Hochul. Pregnancy resource centers, also known as crisis pregnancy centers or limited-service pregnancy centers, are typically religious facilities.…]]> Mon, 13 Jun 2022 22:01:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzArHpk-R6PCauT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzBpAekgzxMINiejEQ2Mq9rY Shani Wilson stepped down as the chair of the Police Accountability Board on Friday effective immediately. The chair of the Police Accountability Board resigned Friday effective immediately, citing the fledgling and embattled agency being "under threat." Shani Wilson had been the chair of the board for two years and oversaw its evolution from an agency on paper to a brick-and-mortar operation with staff and a $5 million budget.…]]> Fri, 10 Jun 2022 23:08:23 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzBpAekgzxMINiejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCQU6X7czDJcV1cWWor9YPv A PAB lawyer's complaint accuses Executive Director Conor Dwyer Reynolds of fostering an environment of paranoia and harassment. A lawyer for the city’s Police Accountability Board claimed the work environment at the nascent agency was “overwhelmed by confusion, tension, and paranoia” fostered by the organization’s executive director, Conor Dwyer Reynolds. Reynolds was placed on administrative leave last month pending an investigation by an outside attorney into unspecified personnel issues within the agency.…]]> Wed, 08 Jun 2022 22:37:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCQU6X7czDJcV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzBi6mcZrcL8FClmFkX7M1Jw Conor Dwyer Reynolds alleges his suspension is retaliation to his sexual harassment complaints against Board Chair Shani Wilson. The embattled executive director of the city’s fledgling Police Accountability Board says he believes he was suspended from his job in retaliation for reporting that his boss, the chair of the board, sexually harassed him. Conor Dwyer Reynolds, who was suspended last month, lodged the allegation in an essay Tuesday that he penned on the online publishing platform Medium.…]]> Tue, 07 Jun 2022 21:04:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzBi6mcZrcL8FClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzBi6mcZrcL8FOT5HJgy6HUf Young Afghan refugees in Rochester find confidence and freedom through the skateboarding program Rolling Resettlement. Farzad Sharafi stood in the belly of the concrete bowl at the Roc City Skatepark on a recent muggy day, the blistering sun beating down on him. Overhead, perched nervously on a skateboard clinging to the lip of the bowl, was Shabeer Sakhizada, a young Afghan boy and student at the Rochester International Academy, a public school for new immigrants.…]]> Tue, 07 Jun 2022 20:35:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzBi6mcZrcL8FOT5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCbh_xLiFNqe8b1naedg1wr An early focus of the plan is finding ways to better connect bike-pedestrian infrastructure across Monroe County municipalities. Cyclists, pedestrians, skaters, wheelchair users, and others: Monroe County officials want to hear from you as they begin preparing a plan to make local streets and trails friendlier to human-powered forms of transportation.…]]> Mon, 06 Jun 2022 21:30:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCbh_xLiFNqe8b1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzB_RV5C8PxxGOzdsCmHakzH Effective Jan. 1, Perinton Town Court will handle all of the cases that would have been heard in Fairport Village Court. Fairport’s village court is set to adjourn for good at the end of the year after elected officials approved a local law to abolish it.…]]> Fri, 03 Jun 2022 21:39:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzB_RV5C8PxxGOzdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCpy8yRXHL4cJVjH6qdYdAk Probation officers will now check on convicted sex offenders at their workplaces more often under an order issued by the county executive. After a registered sex offender was accused of committing a sexual assault at his workplace in March, Monroe County is changing some of its supervision policies.…]]> Thu, 02 Jun 2022 23:10:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCpy8yRXHL4cJVjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCHJxnaTgsHKSlmFkX7M1Jw Duwaine Bascoe will serve as interim leader of the PAB, as the agency prepares to review complaints of police misconduct on June 20. The Rochester Police Accountability Board has tapped Duwaine Bascoe, its chief of investigations, to serve as its interim leader during an independent investigation into personnel issues at the agency. Earlier this month, board Executive Director Conor Dwyer Reynolds was suspended over unspecified human resources complaints that came from within the agency.…]]> Fri, 27 May 2022 19:19:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/tmUbGxBxzzCHJxnaTgsHKSlmFkX7M1Jw