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It's City Council time again.  Someone slipped up and is leasing public space at market rate?  What happened to the corporate welfare?  City Council votes on a new points system - that will get the City sued again. 

Earth Day is coming up.  You definitely have no business going downtown to Parcel 5 on Sunday, April 22nd from 3-5pm for an Earth Day Celebration.  We don't know where you would get that idea from.  Also, check out http://gelfny.org/.  We can make NYS 100% renewable by 2030.

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We look at the history of Midtown Plaza, where it was, how it got to where it is now, and what are we going to do with Parcel 5. (Picture from Rochestersubway.com)

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It's budget season again and the City wants your opinion.  Or do they?  There is also a new Tenant's Union forming in Rochester.  How can we help people living in awful apartments?

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City Council is coming up Tuesday, March 20th.  Call 311 to sign up to Speak to Council at 6:30pm.  There's good stuff & bad on tap at the meeting.  We also discuss an idea to help with Food Justice in Rochester.  There's a lot of vacant land in the city.  Why not use it to grow food where there's food apartheid?

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To focus on public safety, we shouldn't just be focusing on policing.  We should decriminalize marijuana, create jobs for teenagers and young adults, expand recreation, and provide housing for the homeless.  At the same time, police should be retrained to use more restorative methods and there should be follow-up with people who use police services with resources.  Also, the Roc the River concept is government corruption and incompetence at its finest.  You have to hear this to believe it.

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Quick updates on previous topics: Cobbs Hill & swapping public land.  The City is giving us contaminated park land.  Ways to deal with our gun problem that the mainstream media isn't discussing.  We're being ripped off by our electricity companies.  What can we do about it?

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This week we discuss changes in our criminal justice system.  Bail, public defenders, probation, prisons, & restorative justice.