http://www.smugtownbeacon.com/news.php?NewsSectionId=17 Bondare 3.0 RSSBuilder Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:46:56 -0500 smugtownbeacon@gmail.com (Smugtown Beacon) Copyright © and Trademark ™ 2007-2009 All Rights Reserved http://www.smugtownbeacon.com/news.php?viewStory=537 http://www.smugtownbeacon.com/news.php?viewStory=537 Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:36:32 -0500 July 28, 2010  As some residents spent the last year running for school board and considering the issue of mayoral control, other residents were engaged in something more mundane -- but important to them: trying to get the city of Rochester to respond to basic code violations in their neighborhood. The Smugtown Beacon has acquired the email correspondence between a neighborhood group and their Neighborhood Service Center coordinator, Jose Cruz. In these communications, it is clear that the "buck stops here" is not a philosophy distributed uniformly throughout the city administration. If this is how the city responds to residents asking for code enforcement, how will it treat parents concerned about their child's school? Food for thought...
]]> http://www.smugtownbeacon.com/news.php?viewStory=534 http://www.smugtownbeacon.com/news.php?viewStory=534 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:41:04 -0500 July 20, 2010 With the legal deadline passed for candidates to submit nominating petitions, we now know who is REALLY seeking office in 2010. What we do not yet know is how many of these would-be candidates will actually make it on to a September or November ballot. Inside, an interim look at who's running -- and who's not.]]>