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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; Byron Brown</title>
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		<title>Davis and the Public Officers Law</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/13/davis-and-the-public-officers-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m told the Common Council President Dave Franczyk has asked city attorneys for a ruling on whether the guilty plea offered in court today by Ellicott District Councilmember Brian Davis vacates his office.
As you may recall, former Erie County Legislator Butch Holt lost his seat upon pleading guilty to misdemeanor tax evasion charges in 2006, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reunited</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/25/reunited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hiram Monserrate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John M. Curran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pedro Espada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pigeon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Mayor Byron Brown and Steve Pigeon are together again, again. Their on again, off again political relationship appeared to be down for the count just two months prior to the September 15 Democratic primary, in the fallout of the NYS Senate coup that stalled Albany this summer. At the time, the Buffalo News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jackson and Paladino: Dancing Again</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/14/the-emails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am listening to Carl Paladino on WBEN as I type this, and recalling that the last time Carl visited AV&#8217;s offices, he nearly came to blows with Bruce Jackson. Time does not, in fact, heal all wounds but it does create strange bedfellows. On Friday, Jackson—who has endorsed Mickey Kearns for mayor of Buffalo—sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Poll May Not Be So Authoritative</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/14/new-poll-may-not-be-so-authoritative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Business First]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mickey Kearns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Survey USA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new telephone poll commissioned by WGRZ TV has already been posted with a story in the online version of Buffalo Business First. This, the &#8220;final poll&#8221; commissioned by the TV station from Survey USA, puts Mayor Byron Brown ahead of challenger Mickey Kearns.
Survey USA also conducted a poll for WTVD-TV in Raleigh-Durham, NC last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poll Position</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/14/poll-position/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/14/poll-position/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byron Brown has jumped ahead a few point on Mickey Kearns, according to a new poll conducted by SurveyUSA. The new poll has Brown ahead 51 percent to 44 percent, with five percent undecided and a margin of error of four percent.
This poll is no more reliable than last week&#8217;s poll, which showed the race [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice Work If You Can Get It</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/11/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
According to a story in today&#8217;s Buffalo News, Buffalo Police spokesman Mike DeGeorge &#8220;declined to comment on reports that Derenda had directed the police officers to bring Stokes to Brown’s office.”
In the same story, mayor Brown&#8217;s spokesman Peter Cutler &#8220;referred questions to Sciolino.&#8221;
According to Merriam Webster&#8217;s online dictionary:


Main Entry:	spokes·man

Pronunciation: \ˈspōks-mən\
Function: noun
Etymology: probably irregular from spoke, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Found Today at City Hall</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/09/free-today-at-city-hall/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/09/free-today-at-city-hall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<title>Mickey in Masten</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/25/mickey-in-masten/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/25/mickey-in-masten/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took a while for Mickey Kearns to draw a round of genuine laughter from the crowd at True Bethel Baptist Church last night. He&#8217;d come at the invitation of the Buffalo Association of Black Journalists, whose three-person panel peppered him with questions about policy and race and qualifications and expectations. He also fielded questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown Faring Poorly In Business First Poll</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/19/brown-faring-poorly-in-business-first-poll/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/19/brown-faring-poorly-in-business-first-poll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business First has an online poll that asks its readers whether Mayor Byron Brown deserves re-election.
At 2:53, 84 percent of voters said he did not. There had been 270 votes.
Polls like this are nonsense, really, but I am interested to see how quickly the numbers tilt in Brown&#8217;s favor, once the second floor of City [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smile! We&#8217;re on Commie Camera!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/10/smile-were-on-commie-camera/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/10/smile-were-on-commie-camera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:48:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an AP story picked up by the Buffalo News, describing the expanded use of surveillance cameras in the People&#8217;s Republic of China.
&#8220;No debate over privacy rights has taken place in China, where the ratio of cameras to people stands at only one to 472,000, and where tight communist political control and broad and intrusive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOILed Again, and Again, and Again</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/10/foiled-again-and-again-and-again/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/10/foiled-again-and-again-and-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good for Buffalo News editor Margaret Sullivan, calling out Mayor Byron Brown for his administration&#8217;s habit of stonewalling on the release of public records to the press.
We&#8217;ve been complaining about the problem for two years, and we published a cover story about the problem in February 2008. One AV editor was forced to FOIL minutes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stonewall Endorses Kearns</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/30/stonewall-endorses-kearns/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/30/stonewall-endorses-kearns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday night, Stonewall Democrats of Western New York endorsed Mickey Kearns for mayor. Stonewall joins the PBA, Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, and Nosotros. Four of his fellow councilmembers support Kearns, as well.
Mayor Byron Brown was not deemed eligible for the Stonewall endorsement, according to Outcome magazine, because his campaign has paid for advertising on Joe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HUD Inspector General will launch probe of block grant funds</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/29/hud-inspector-general-will-launch-probe-of-block-grant-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/29/hud-inspector-general-will-launch-probe-of-block-grant-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a letter from South District Councilmember Mickey Kearns, US Department of Housing and Urban Development Inspector General Kenneth M. Donohue has pledged to audit Buffalo’s administration of federal anti-poverty funds. The probe will focus on the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation.
In a July 24 letter, Donohue writes, “Based on our review of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Byron Scissorhands</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/14/byron-scissorhands/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/14/byron-scissorhands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crystal peoples]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is mayor Byron Brown cutting a ribbon with Brian Davis on June 4, as covered by BuffaloRising.com.
But now with the election fast-approaching, he brought out the big scissors on Sunday for the opening of two-way traffic on the 700 block of Main Street, according to the Buffalo News.
Then, just this morning, he was at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over the Weekend</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/13/over-the-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/13/over-the-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Brian Davis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Heaney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mickey Kearns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Richard Stenhouse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four items of interest:
—Byron Brown wins the endorsement of Goin&#8217; South, the South Buffalo political organization stacked with city employees. No surprise there; there was no chance that Ray McGurn and Goin&#8217; South would buck the mayor and his allies Brian Higgins, Mark Schroeder, and Tim Kennedy. Still, it&#8217;s a show of force for Brown.
—Mickey [...]]]></description>
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