Mayoral Candidates Rachel Barnhart and James Sheppard are both critical of Mayor Lovely Warren for being too hand-in-glove with the ridesharing service Uber, and Barnhart says she’s filing a complaint with the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics and Rochester’s Board of Ethics. Both candidates jumped on Wednesday’s combined public forum on ridesharing […]
The City of Rochester is taking advantage of new state legislation to set up its own City Traffic Violations Agency. The city wants this because existing traffic violations in the city have to be handled through the State Violations Bureau, which is part of the DMV. But each town is allowed to have jurisdiction over […]
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren has released a $525 million city budget, one that increases spending by just 1.3 percent over the current budget and maintains “critical programs and services” while closing a $50 million revenue gap. Warren is closing that gap between what all existing city programs and services cost and the amount of money […]