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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; City Hall</title>
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	<description>News &#38; Commentary from the Artvoice Editorial staff</description>
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		<title>If Holt Had to Go, So Does Davis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/14/if-holt-had-to-go-so-does-davis/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/14/if-holt-had-to-go-so-does-davis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the letter Erie County Attorney Larry Rubin wrote to Legislature Chair Lynn Marinelli in January 2007 after Legislator Butch Holt plead guilty to tax evasion charges:
January 24, 2007

VIA HAND DELIVERY
Hon. Lynn M. Marinelli, Chairperson
Erie County Legislature
92 Franklin Street, 4th Floor
Buffalo, New York 14202
Dear Madame Chairperson:
It is my duty to formally advise you that, in [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/13/davis-and-the-public-officers-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></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>Question for Brian Davis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/06/question-for-brian-davis/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/06/question-for-brian-davis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Davis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday an anonymous commenter left this note on the long-abandoned blog of  Ellicott District Councilman Brian Davis:

  Anonymous said&#8230;

November 05, 2009
How could you?


Good question.


Related posts (automatically generated):Brian Davis: No on Domestic Partnership BenefitsBrian Davis UpdateBrian Davis! On Facebook!]]></description>
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		<title>Man vs. Machine</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/05/man-vs-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/05/man-vs-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red light cameras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redflex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to a source in City Hall, the push for red light cameras has lost momentum since the home-rule measure was passed in Albany and approved by the Common Council this past spring.
Since then, one traffic surveillance company, Redflex, has met on more than one occasion with council members to voice their displeasure at this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Davis AWOL</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/05/brian-davis-awol/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/05/brian-davis-awol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[John Borsa at Channel 7 News reports:
 // 
Sources on Buffalo&#8217;s Common Council tell Eyewitness News that Ellicott District member Brian Davis could lose two weeks of salary on payday if he fails to show for Tuesday&#8217;s regularly scheduled meeting. This after Davis failed to show for a committee meeting on Wednesday.
&#8220;Avoiding state police investigators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Davis: No on Domestic Partnership Benefits</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/30/brian-davis-no-on-domestic-partnership-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/30/brian-davis-no-on-domestic-partnership-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Does it strike anyone odd that Ellicott District Councilman Brian Davis—who must represent more same-sex couples than any other Buffalo legislator—is the only member of Council to vote against a resolution asking the city&#8217;s Law Department to write up a bill that would extend domestic partner benefits to all city employees.
He represents Allentown, the epicenter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reunited</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/25/reunited/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/25/reunited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiram Monserrate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John M. Curran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pedro Espada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pigeon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4617</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/14/the-emails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></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>FOILed Again: Peter Cutler Responds to Criticism</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/13/4302/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/13/4302/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOIL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Heaney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Margaret Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter cutler]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A poster over at SpeakupWNY shared the automatic response one receives when, prompted by Buffalo News editor Margaret Sullivan, one writes to Mayor Byron Brown to complain about the city stonewalling the media on Freedom of Information requests.
Here it is:
The Mayor&#8217;s Office has received your e-mail regarding the August 9, 2009 column written by the [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></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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