Gino Fanelli
Investigations/City Hall reporterGino Fanelli is an investigative reporter who also covers City Hall. He joined the staff in 2019 by way of the Rochester Business Journal, and formerly served as a watchdog reporter for Gannett in Maryland and a stringer for the Associated Press.
His interests include government and policy, policing, cannabis, and beer.
He spends much of his off time cooking or hiking in the Finger Lakes with a banjo on his back. You can catch him on most weekends at a local brewery or scrolling through the used metal rack at Record Archive.
Gino is a Rochester native who currently lives in the city’s Highland Park neighborhood.
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The city officially acquired the Lockwood-Alhart house on Culver Road in January. But its future has still yet to be determined, and a costly restoration need. -
By a vote of 21-8, Monroe County became the only major county in upstate New York to vote to not create a registry for short-term rentals. -
Omar Ramos Jimenez, 50, is originally from Mexico and has lived in Rochester since 2004. He and his wife founded and ran La Casa on Alexander Street and, before that, operated La Placita at the Public Market. -
Organizations with small-scale solutions that could “reduce displacement, improve housing stability, and create stable housing opportunities” are asked to apply. -
The proposed funding changes aim to radically reduce support for permanent housing, and target programs which acknowledge transgender people, show a racial preference, or are in areas that do not have harsh enough policies toward street homelessness. -
Miller founded the House of Mercy in 1985. At the time, it was a fledgling operation in a one-bedroom house on Central Park funded by $20,000 from the Sisters of Mercy, the progressive Catholic congregation Miller belonged to. -
A few weeks after promising a new life for Rochester's first distillery since Prohibition, Blackstar fired all staff and founder Jason Barrett. It is now moving to sell off its remaining product. -
Rahjule Keeton, 21, is charged with robbing and killing James Hallenbeck, 29, in August 2022. Hallenbeck was on a late-night walk, and his killing was random. -
Felicia Reid, the state's acting director of the Office of Cannabis Management, sat down with WXXI News for a wide-ranging interview on the successes, and hurdles, to legal weed in New York. -
The original complaint was filed in April and sought to bar the city from following its sanctuary policy, which forbids city employees, including police, from aiding in immigration enforcement.
