Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility

Tag Archives: mayor

Mayor welcomes German delegation

Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and Council member Carolee Conklin will welcome Würzburg Mayor Christian Schuchardt and his delegation today at the annual reception of International Sister Cities of Rochester. The event will run from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the ...

Read More »

Rochester elects first female mayor

Rochester City Council President Lovely Warren has become the city’s first female mayor. With all precincts reporting Tuesday night, Warren won the mayoral election with 55 percent. She scored an upset victory over Mayor Thomas S. Richards in a Democratic primary ...

Read More »

With mayor as victim, operative’s trial nears

NEW YORK — It’s a case of political intrigue that put New York’s billionaire mayor in the unlikely role of victim, froze a political party’s bank account and splashed light on the inner workings of a $109 million mayoral campaign. ...

Read More »

Richards is ready to roll up his sleeves

Newly elected Mayor Thomas S. Richards is wasting no time getting to work. And there is no shortage of work to be done. Richards, who won a special election Tuesday with 49 percent of the votes, met Wednesday with R. Carlos Carballada, who has been acting mayor since mid-January.

Read More »

Three left in mayor’s race

Three candidates will be on the ballot March 29 for the special election for mayor of the city of Rochester. They are Thomas S. Richards, former corporation counsel who served as mayor for three weeks after Mayor Robert Duffy resigned to become lieutenant governor ...

Read More »

Ex-mayor Johnson jumps back in ring

A former three-term mayor of Rochester is wearing his old political hat again. Democrat William Johnson, a political outsider when he became the city's first black mayor in 1994, has announced his candidacy ...

Read More »

Hatch Act v. the mayor

The Hatch Act left Thomas S. Richards with only two choices. He could resign as mayor of the City of Rochester in order to run for the seat in a special March election or he could keep the temporary post and not seek election ...

Read More »