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Jeremy Moule on November 4th, 2009
The state Department of Environmental Conservation today announced that it's extending the comment period for its new Marcellus and Utica Shales natural gas drilling regulations. The comment period will now end December 31, which adds a full month.
State environmental, watchdog, and legal groups have called for an extension of the
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Jeremy Moule on November 4th, 2009
Subsidized child care can be a saving grace for low-income families. The funding lets parents work, and it allows children to get quality care that will help nurture their development.
But there's a catch. Each family has to make an out-of-pocket co-pay to the child-care provider - a fee that's determined
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Jeremy Moule on November 4th, 2009
Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy confirms what many have long suspected: the city and the county are in talks to possibly merge water systems.
"There are a number of issues that I think we have to work out," he says. "Like anything, nothing happens quickly, but we've been talking for some time
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Jeremy Moule on November 3rd, 2009
IRAQ TOTALS - 4,353 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 93,795 to 102,330 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to October 30.
American servicemen and servicewomen killed October 19 to 27:
-- Maj. David L. Audo, 35, Saint
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Jeremy Moule on October 28th, 2009
The golden rule of wetlands, as every developer knows, is that if you destroy or alter them, you must replace them.
It's a practice known as wetland mitigation, and there are federal and state laws that govern it - the federal Clean Water Act is a major one. Those statutes apply
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Jeremy Moule on October 28th, 2009
Diane Hope started tracking news stories about the Marcellus Shale two years ago. At first, she says, the stories were focused on energy and profit.
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, for example, played up natural gas's potential as a cleaner fuel and as an economic benefit to
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Jeremy Moule on October 27th, 2009
IRAQ TOTALS - 4351 US servicemen and servicewomen, 318 Coalition servicemen and servicewomen, and approximately 93,571 to 102,096 Iraqi civilians have been killed in Iraq from the beginning of the war and occupation to October 23.
American servicemen and servicewomen killed October 6 to 19:
-- Pfc. Daniel J. Rivera, 22, Rochester,
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Jeremy Moule on October 21st, 2009
Living next to a former landfill has its risks - like learning that your home has a methane pocket growing under it, and that there are elevated levels of volatile organic compounds in the air.
Two Irondequoit homes on Timrod Road, next to a former city dump, are dealing with that
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Jeremy Moule on October 20th, 2009
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Jeremy Moule on October 20th, 2009
Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks has released an approximate $914 million budget proposal for 2010. Brooks made the announcement this morning.
The proposal holds that tax rate to its current level, $8.99 per $1,000 of assessed value.
Brooks said that the county initially faced a $40-million gap going into 2010. The gap
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Jeremy Moule on November 5th, 2009
Governor David Paterson has called for special session of the Legislature on November 11. Among the items on the agenda is a property tax circuit-breaker and same-sex marriage equality legislation.
The main thrust of the session is to get the Legislature to pass Paterson's deficit-reduction plan. If experience tells us anything,
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Jeremy Moule on November 5th, 2009
Representatives from J. Fiore & Co., the DiMarco Group, and Bergmann Associates pitched a property in the Canal Ponds commercial park to an RBTL selection committee this afternoon - Morgan Management is also involved in the proposal.
The presenters emphasized many benefits of the sites, which straddles the Greece and Gates
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Jeremy Moule on October 29th, 2009
The way Farmington officials and their partners see it, a new theater next to the Racino could mean more money for the Rochester Broadway Theater League, as well as more bodies in the seats.
This afternoon, the town made its pitch for RBTL to locate its proposed new theater next to
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Jeremy Moule on October 21st, 2009
There's a good reason why so many environmental groups and even politicians - Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, for example - want the DEC to extend the comment period for the DEC's new shale gas-drilling regulations: it's a very complicated topic.
That was evident during Monday night's forum on natural gas extraction in
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Jeremy Moule on October 15th, 2009
Anthony Costello says the Rochester Broadway Theater League should choose his company's Brighton site for a new performing arts center because it'll have a built-in audience.
Anthony J. Costello and Son proposes locating the new theater in its planned Clinton Crossings expansion. But when he pitched it, Costello tied the performing
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Jeremy Moule on September 30th, 2009
I don't know what to say about last night's special meeting of the County Legislature.
The meeting dealt with a proposal to contract with a newly-formed local development corporation, which would buy new public safety communications equipment and lease it to the county. With a 20-year term and a $224 million
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Jeremy Moule on September 25th, 2009
Remember the Taxpayer Protection Act? Well, it's put the county in an interesting and possibly unanticipated position.
The TPA requires the county to keep non-mandated spending increases below the year-to-year increase in the Consumer Price Index. It was introduced by Republicans in 2007 and put on the November ballot that year.
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Jeremy Moule on September 22nd, 2009
County parks have been the focus of several controversies in the past year, and at this point, it's almost certain they'll be an issue in the County Legislature elections.
One of the first indications came when Republicans began robocalling Democratic Legislator Harry Bronson's district after Bronson voted in favor of stabilizing
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Jeremy Moule on September 15th, 2009
The two freshman Democrats in the Rochester area's Congressional delegation - Dan Maffei and Eric Massa - voted against admonishing South Carolina Republican Joe Wilson for shouting "You lie" during President Obama's speech last week.
Their "no" votes, which came after just over an hour of debate, was symbolic.
"My vote against
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Jeremy Moule on September 14th, 2009
When the Rochester Labor Council, AFL-CIO, announced its endorsements over the weekend, one County Legislature race was conspicuously absent: the 29th District.
The Council endorsed two Democratic Party-backed candidates facing primary challenges: Nora Bredes in LD-18 and incumbent Legislator Carrie Andrews in LD-21. There's another primary in LD-29, which covers
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