State Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle has formally announced his candidacy for the congressional seat left vacant by the death of Louise Slaughter. The Irondequoit Democrat has served in the New York Assembly since 1990 and is a past chair of the Monroe County Democratic Committee. That gives him immediate access to a political organization […]
Rochester’s new railroad and inter-city bus station will have a clock that once graced the concourse of the city’s 1914 New York Central station. Congresswoman Louise Slaughter says her staff located one of the original clocks from the 1914 Claude Bragdon-designed station that was demolished in 1965. Had it lasted a decade longer, it would […]
The University of Rochester has received a $1.5 million Department of Health and Human Services grant to fund both its HIV-AIDS research and its efforts at suicide prevention. Congresswoman Louise Slaughter says she’s also using this as an occasion to oppose President Trump’s Fiscal 2018 budget plan, which would slash such funding by nearly 20 […]