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The New York State Photonics Board has approved $106 million in funding for the American Institute for Manufacturing Photonics in Rochester. It’s part of the money New York has pledged to the AIM Photonics Center, which is supposed to receive $600 million over the next four years from a consortium of industries and the federal […]
New York’s two United States Senators are pushing for an $85 million federal highway grant to completely rebuild the Lyell Avenue Corridor. That’s the part of Gates where Lyell Avenue, I-490 and I-390 come together. It handles about 200,000 vehicles a day. Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand say the money would come from the […]
.Rochester-area Congresswoman Louise Slaughter is among a number of Democratic members of the house who began a “sit in” on the House floor Wednesday, demanding the Republican leadership bring up a bipartisan gun control bill for a vote. Speaker Paul Ryan has declined to do so. Here’s Slaughter speaking on the floor. Video of the […]