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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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. -
Green Comfort on South Clinton will serve as the 20th dispensary in Monroe County, and the 500th in the state. -
The updated health plan for 2026 sees some health system employees receiving a 500% increase in their payments. -
The partnership with Enlace would offer up to 500 people access to immigrant rights training, and fund a hotline for questions and connections to resources for immigrants. -
The report from Hope 585 and The Children's Agenda cites state data, which shows nearly 80% of Child Protective Services investigations find no evidence of abuse or neglect. -
The Conservative Party is ideologically opposed to the Democratic Party. Yet they found common ground on candidates this year.
