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April 2008 - Posts
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Like so many communities today, the Rochester area is being hit with a fiscal three-fer: the city's looming annual budget deficit (on top of deficits and liabilities past), the county deficit (in part the effect of long-term regressive tax policy...
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"State of..." speeches are supposed to be taken as grand civic convocations, celebrations of unity and shared purpose, but they're really no more than elites talking to one another - just like most other aspects of very small "d"...
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Campbell’s Ledge From across the Susquehanna The striated ledge looks Like a bundle of taut springs Capable of lobbing a Volley of boulders Smack into the floodplain, crumpling The rail depot Like a broken toy. I come the long way around To be safe...
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