BATON ROUGE, La. — Residents in five East Baton Rouge Parish neighborhoods voted this month to tax themselves to pay for additional police protection. The Baton Rouge Advocate reported the Nov. 21 vote on the fee, which will cost property owners $50 ...

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Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, professor of clinical psychiatry and professor of clinical sociomedical sciences at Columbia University, will speak at the next Reshaping Rochester lecture. The event is scheduled for 7 to 9 p.m. April 30, at Gleason Works Auditorium, ...

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The projects have been in the works for some time. Thanks to low interest rates, Rochester may borrow up to $29.15 million to speed them along and, city officials hope, put people to work and improve neighborhoods. The City Council ...

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One of Rochester’s toughest neighborhoods is getting a sprucing up by way of new, low-income houses. El Camino Estates, built with private and public financing, is a group of nine three-bedroom and 16 four-bedroom houses scattered through the northeast neighborhoods of Rochester.

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A report released Wednesday by the Empire Justice Center shows prime mortgage lending decreased between 2006 and 2008, and documents that low-income and minority neighborhoods were hardest hit by the slowdown.

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J.B. Afoh-Manin opposes it, believing the measure could cause homeowners feel squeezed caused by spillover parking. Larry Glazer supports it, believing the measure could fuel economic investment ...

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NeighborWorks Rochester has been awarded a $35,000 grant through the Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation. The money will support NeighborWorks Rochester’s Healthy Blocks program, which works with residents ...

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