The Rochester City Council is expected to approve legislation from Mayor Lovely Warren this evening, updating the city’s 1986 Sanctuary declaration. Mayor Warren has submitted new sanctuary legislation based on language vetted by State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, one of about a dozen attorneys general opposing the Trump Administration’s new immigration policies. Basically, it says […]
A report on urban homicide rates from the Rochester Institute of Technology has Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren seething. In a statement, she calls it “an incredible disservice to the men and women of the Rochester Police Department.” The report is from RIT’s Center for Public Safety Initiatives. It compares last year’s homicide rates in 24 […]
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren told a joint state legislative budget committee that the city needs equity in school aid. A “Maintenance of Effort” mandate imposed by the state on the city requires it to pay the Rochester City School District more than $119 million a year, even if the city runs a budget shortfall. That […]