Larry W. Tyree, who has served as an interim community college president three times, was today named by the Monroe Community College Board of Trustees to step in as the college’s interim president.Tyree is expected to begin work at MCC in August.Most recently he has served as the president at Independence Community College in Independence, [...]

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The New York Post had an interesting article this weekend concerning the possible consequences of a Democratic takeover of the state Senate. According to Fred Dicker: Top Democratic and Republican strategists told The Post that a Democratic Senate victory would, in fact, trigger one of the fiercest political fights ever and produce a sustained period [...]

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Monroerising recently reported that David Gantt refused to consider supporting a better bill submitted by State Senator Joe Robach to combat lead poisoning, found mainly in older homes located with the City of Rochester.  As you know, lead poisoning is a major cause of many medical conditions affecting children who grow up in these homes.  I [...]

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…Is a complete and utter idiot. We’re a little early with the Rant but this is so necessary. First off, sorry for calling many of you liberal bloggers out there idiots, but for those of you saying this, you really are. I can’t even come up with an eloquent way of explaining my point right [...]

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Who would have believed it?  Maggie Brooks took the bull by the horns and asked Republican Party Chairman Steve Minarik to step down on Friday, sending shock waves through the local GOP. What is even more shocking is the way it was done.  Very public. Very open.  Republicans typically don’t operate this way.  When someone [...]

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We keep hearing form the democrats that there are 68 million acres that the oil companies have leases for and should drill there before they get leases to more land.  Someone needs to tell the Democrats the problem is there is no oil there! The Wall Street Journal writes:  The majority of these unexploited acres [...]

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The Barnard Fire Department holds one of western New York’s biggest parades and carnivals.  They been doing it since the 1920′s.  Thousands of people lined Dewey Avenue Thursday night.  It’s interesting that Chris Lee and Jack Davis both found the time to meet and greet these voters — almost all of them live in the 26th [...]

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Channel 13 is reporting Republican Chariman Steve Minarik is resiging today. According to WHAM-TV: Monroe County GOP Chairman Steve Minarik Monroe County Republican Committee Chairman Steve Minarik is resigning today. Minarik has been the local GOP chairman since 1991. He led a huge period of growth for the party, during which the party took control [...]

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I couldn’t find Joseph Spector’s article in the online version of the D&C McPaper, so I can’t link to it, but a day or two ago Spector wrote a story on how a lead poisoning bill that passed the State Senate didn’t pass the Democrat controlled State Assembly.  The Senate Bill was sponsored by Senator Joe [...]

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Friends, according to a story in the New York Daily News,  in 2001, a staffer of an Upstate Assembly member accused one of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s top aides of rape. Elizabeth Crothers, 32, brought up an internal Assembly complaint shortly after the accused rape took place by then-Silver counsel Michael Boxley.  She and her Assembly [...]

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