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As restoration continues from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, gasoline prices have peaked and started back down again in Central and Western New York. The AAA says prices in Rochester, Buffalo and Syracuse all went down over the past week, Rochester and Buffalo by a penny-per-gallon, and Syracuse by three cents. The Average across the five-county […]
Congresswoman Louise Slaughter used a meeting in Washington today to make a direct pitch to officials from Amazon.com…..asking them to bring their new second national headquarters to Rochester. The meeting was at Google’s Washington headquarters…and Slaughter was briefing CEOs about Rochester’s two public-private manufacturing institutes, AIM Photonics and the REMADE Institute. Slaughter spotted Amazon officials […]
The Monroe County Legislature last night approved a $25 million dollar price hike in the cost of the Greater Rochester International Airport renovation project, pushing the project cost to $79 million dollars. County Spokesman Jesse Sleezer says the changes are mainly due to adding more state-of-the-art security features to the project and to the airport […]