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The anti-casino organization “A Better Rochester” says it’s collected more than 12,000 signatures on a petition calling for a citywide referendum against a downtown Rochester casino. If the signatures are all valid under state elections law, that would be three times the number needed to force the referendum. The group says it plans to do […]
A 64-year-old Livonia man has been charged with running a marijuana growing operation after a 911 call about a man pointing a gun out a window in the village. The Livingston County Sheriff’s Office says Mark Arnold was contacted by deputies who told them he’d been cleaning his stored BB gun and pointed it out […]
Standard and Poor’s has uprated the City of Rochester’s credit rating. The agency raised its rating on the city’s bond debt from A+ to AA-. They cite mainly the increase in city property values…up by more than nine-and-a-half percent in the past year. That’s partly due to the federal government decision to put the headquarters […]