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Christine Carrie Fien on November 18th, 2009
Looking at the broader picture may make you wonder about priorities. The City School District's transportation policy provides busing only for kids who live more than 1.5 miles from school - neighborhood safety isn't factored into who gets bused and who doesn't. | Meanwhile, just a phone call away
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Christine Carrie Fien on November 11th, 2009
Texting is often seen as a frivolous exercise; an indulgence of an easily distracted, constantly connected culture. But the ubiquity of cell phones, paired with young people's technological virtuosity, present opportunities beyond idle chatter. | "Txt 4 Help" is a new initiative of National Safe Place, which provides havens for
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Christine Carrie Fien on November 4th, 2009
City Council member Lovely Warren says that she fully supports letting the fire department use vacant houses for training. She just wants to know, she says, that the monument to their training won't be left standing ad infinitum.
"I don't have a problem with them tearing a hole in the roof
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Christine Carrie Fien on October 22nd, 2009
The Landmark Society wants to sell or lease the Campbell-Whittlesey House, one of two house museums that the society operates. The society has owned the house at 123 South Fitzhugh Street since 1937.
Executive Director Joanne Arany says that a declining number of visitors, finances, and the gradual evolution
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Christine Carrie Fien on October 14th, 2009
Less than 10 minutes after leaving his van to run an errand at the Public Safety Building, a city resident, who does not want to be identified, returned to find his Honda Odyssey being towed away.
The tow-truck operator told the resident to call the towing company in 15 minutes. The
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Christine Carrie Fien on October 14th, 2009
St. John Fisher is often overshadowed by its headline-grabbing sister colleges in Rochester; it doesn't have a fancy new arts center or scientists conducting cutting-edge medical research. The school's profile did get a serious bump, however, when the Buffalo Bills moved their training camp to Fisher in 2000. The camp
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Christine Carrie Fien on October 1st, 2009
Private citizens will be able to pursue civil cases against the owners of suspected drug houses under a new initiative conceived by City Council member Adam McFadden.
Rochester Street Watch is being piloted in the Thurston Road neighborhoods in the 19th Ward, where McFadden announced the initiative this morning.
Citizens who live
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Christine Carrie Fien on September 23rd, 2009
The following narratives, taken from interviews, have been edited for clarity and brevity. The names of the recovering addicts have been changed.
Harvey
Harvey, 26, lives in Greece. He started using marijuana when he was 12 or 13, and eventually became a daily heroin user. He says he spent $700 to $800
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Christine Carrie Fien on September 23rd, 2009
To read three stories of recovery, go here.
Shawn blames the drugs for a lot: dropping out of college, his more than 50 arrests, and coming thisclose to gunning down his family. But hand on a stack of Bibles, may lightning strike him dead, that was, honest-to-God, a pterodactyl that
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Christine Carrie Fien on September 22nd, 2009
Journalists around the world are facing threats ranging from outright violence to layoffs. | The United Nations Association of Rochester is holding a one-day conference, "Freedom of the Press: A Global Crisis," to examine the issue. | "It's really an opportunity for people to exchange ideas, debate, and to
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Christine Carrie Fien on November 6th, 2009
The Creative Wellness Center is hosting a retrospective of artist Sonia Gutowski's work. The opening is tonight (Friday, November 6), from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Center, 320 North Goodman Street, Suite 201. Admission is free.
Gutowski, who has been in Monroe Community Hospital recovering from a stroke, will be
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Christine Carrie Fien on October 21st, 2009
There are big changes coming to the Rochester/High Falls International Film Festival. First: a new name. The festival will now be known as 360 | 365. Executive Director John Richardson says the new name represents the organization's growing year-round presence and appeal to all audiences.
When the festival began eight years
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Christine Carrie Fien on September 10th, 2009
From outsider to magic man in four years. The Democratic Party knows the superstar it has in Mayor Bob Duffy - who did not get the party's endorsement during his first run - and is milking the Duffy brand dry to sell the party's slate of primary candidates.
Today, Duffy announced
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Christine Carrie Fien on September 9th, 2009
Actually, a more direct translation is "pubic hair," which is SO MUCH BETTER.
A member of City Council is alleged to have hurled an expletive at last night's meeting. I didn't hear it. I was distracted by the guy in the hall outside screaming about his First Amendment rights.
Usually that means
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Christine Carrie Fien on May 6th, 2009
I hesitated writing this because I was afraid that it might encourage Glenn Beck to come cry on my doorstep. (Flash back 40 years and tell me that nub wasn't getting creamed for his milk money on a daily basis.)
The same network that promoted the heck out of those tea
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Christine Carrie Fien on February 4th, 2009
The court room looks like an unfinished basement: dim; dark, wooden walls; dirty industrial-like tile that scuffs when you rub your shoes against it.
Anthony DiPonzio's mother and father are in the front row. Spectators carrying heavy coats stride purposely forward: "I'm so sorry..."
Dozens of gold and silver badged Rochester cops
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Christine Carrie Fien on January 26th, 2009
With one arm around Whoopie (Behar, by contrast, looked like she was sitting next to a pile of stinky diapers) hopeless Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich skipped his impeachment trial this morning to tap-dance on the View.
It's a frame-up, see? said Blago, sounding like Edward G. - "It's curtains for you,
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Christine Carrie Fien on December 3rd, 2008
It's fair to say that the D&C takes its share of knocks around the City newsroom; we gloat when we scoop them and bitch and make lame excuses when they scoop us. We laugh, like the liberal-elitist-intellectuals we are accused of being, at the D&C's Teddy Geiger worship or innovations
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Christine Carrie Fien on November 5th, 2008
I get what people are saying: Obama's election is proof that anyone can be president in America. We've always said that, of course, but it's tough to believe it when every president from General Washington on down has looked a certain way.
Some academics are worried that people will now forget
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Christine Carrie Fien on August 7th, 2008
I don't remember much from that college philosophy course, except that my instructor really, really liked Aristotle. Something else: The end justifies the means, if the means are justifiable. I'd never heard that second part before. I thought about that last night when I was watching - as much as
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