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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; Echo Chamber</title>
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		<title>Strip Joints Busted!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/03/02/strip-joints-busted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:58:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amherst Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ATF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo FBI agents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheektowaga Police]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Buffalo News reports that two suburban gentlemen&#8217;s clubs have been raided in a crack down on a heroin and cocaine ring.
According to the News report, &#8220;Drug prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office are handling the case.  Investigators  include Buffalo FBI agents, State Police, agents from the U.S. Bureau of  Alcohol, Tobacco, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governor Paterson Finally Hangs It Up</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/02/26/governor-patterson-finally-hangs-it-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/02/26/governor-patterson-finally-hangs-it-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Moses</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After almost a year of insisting he would run for a full term as an elected governor for NY, the often feisty David Paterson is announcing this afternoon he is giving up the quest. The tipping point seemed to be his ever sinking poll numbers, a lack of cash, and the most recent scandal of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only a Matter of Time</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/02/10/only-a-matter-of-time/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/02/10/only-a-matter-of-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Bears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Ditka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pat robertson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck at 4am this morning outside of Chicago. The USGS initially reported a stronger 4.3 quake, but has since readjusted its assessment.
No injuries have been reported thus far.
Still, it may only be a matter of time until Pat Robertson pins the cause of the quake on the pact with the devil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pontiac Michigan&#8217;s Silverdome Sold for Pennies</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/02/01/pontiac-michigans-silverdome-sold-for-pennies/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/02/01/pontiac-michigans-silverdome-sold-for-pennies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Moses</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Wilson Stadium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silverdome]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Pontiac Michigan the Detroit Lions used to play in the Silverdome, which was built at a cost $55.7 million. The stadium was just sold for $583,000 along with a 125 acres of land. Detroit is also selling off a lot of other public property that has been draining taxpayers. Should Buffalo think about putting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>J.D. Salinger  dies at 91</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/28/j-d-salinger-dies-at-91/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/28/j-d-salinger-dies-at-91/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Moses</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catcher on the Rye]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[J.D. Salinger]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=5793</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fans of the fictional, and seemingly eternal, rebel Holden Caulfield from the book &#8220;Catcher on the Rye&#8221;, may want to pause a moment and reflect. The reclusive author of the book, J.D. Salinger passed away today. For a complete story, well as complete as is possible, on Salinger, try today&#8217;s Washington Post.
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		<title>Whacky Oregonians Vote for Higher Taxes!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/27/whacky-oregonians-vote-for-higher-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/27/whacky-oregonians-vote-for-higher-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosmopolitan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daily Kos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As pundits breathlessly interpret the meaning of Republican Cosmo pinup Scott Brown&#8217;s victory in Massachusetts, they overlook the outcome of a special election vote in Oregon last week where a significant majority of voters chose to raise taxes to pay for government services! 
What&#8217;s up with those people? The state&#8217;s unemployment rate is already one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Marriage: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/22/corporate-marriage-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/22/corporate-marriage-an-idea-whose-time-has-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daimler-Chrysler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ExxonMobil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Supreme Court]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=5676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the US Supreme Court has ruled that corporations can spend whatever they want on political campaigns based on the concept that they, like individuals, have a basic right to free speech, how long will it take until they are granted other rights that we, as individuals take for granted?
For years, some people have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massachusetts Election Winner: Health Care Stocks</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/19/massachusetts-election-winner-health-care-stocks/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/19/massachusetts-election-winner-health-care-stocks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Coakley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Kennedy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=5566</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even before the votes are counted in today&#8217;s election to replace late Senator Edward Kennedy, health care stocks are surging based on the hope that Republican Scott Brown will win and deliver on his promise to block health care reform.
Read how investors are bullish today on Humana, Coventry Health Care, Aetna, United Health Group, Merck, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jay Leno set to return to &#8220;Tonight Show&#8221; unless Conan caves</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/14/jay-leno-set-to-return-to-tonight-show-unless-conan-caves/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/14/jay-leno-set-to-return-to-tonight-show-unless-conan-caves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:05:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Moses</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conan o'brien]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Leno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tonight Show]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jay Leno is set to return to &#8220;The Tonight Show&#8221; at 11:35 p.m. unless Conan O&#8217;Brien has a last-minute change of heart about hosting the show in a later time period.
Full story in the Washington Post.
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		<title>Conan O&#8217;Brien won&#8217;t give up &#8216;Tonight Show&#8217; time slot to make room for Jay Leno</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/13/conan-obrien-wont-give-up-tonight-show-time-slot-to-make-room-for-jay-leno/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/13/conan-obrien-wont-give-up-tonight-show-time-slot-to-make-room-for-jay-leno/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Moses</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conan O'Brein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jay Leno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tonight Show]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=5434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the Washington Post:
&#8220;For 60 years the &#8216;Tonight Show&#8217; has aired immediately following the late local news. I sincerely believe that delaying the &#8216;Tonight Show&#8217; into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting,&#8221; O&#8217;Brien said in a statement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffalo Murder Rate is Peanuts Compared to Juarez</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/12/buffalo-murder-rate-is-peanuts-compared-to-juarez/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/12/buffalo-murder-rate-is-peanuts-compared-to-juarez/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Moses</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Buffalo beats the national average in every single crime category for cities, with the exception of arson, which is almost at zero. Nevertheless, according to an article in Planet magazine, compared to Juarez, Mexico, our murder rate of around 65 a year is nothing.

How out of control is the city of Juárez? Compare the killings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farina New Face of Falls Landmark</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/11/farina-new-face-of-falls-landmark/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/11/farina-new-face-of-falls-landmark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Parlato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Niagara Falls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tony Farina]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=5383</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported in the Buffalo News, former newspaper and TV journalist Tony Farina has left his job as an aide to City of Buffalo Comptroller Andrew SanFilippo to become &#8220;the face&#8221; of the iconic former Hooker Chemical building in downtown Niagara Falls.
Picture that. Cannon Design calls it &#8220;one of the most energy efficient commercial buildings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food for Thought</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/07/food-for-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/07/food-for-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atul Gawande]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New Yorker]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
What might a 1900 American farmer have in common with a 21-century American doctor?
Read this interesting piece in The New Yorker by physician Atul Gawande. Gawande observes that fixing America&#8217;s health care system might take more than the current 2,074 pages of legislation and hot-headed ideological battles. If history is a guide, it might even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Gas in the News</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/04/natural-gas-in-the-news/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2010/01/04/natural-gas-in-the-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allegany State Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fortuna Gas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natural gas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Natural gas, currently being touted as a cleaner alternative to coal and oil, is also turning some people&#8217;s kitchen faucets into flamethrowers.
Here&#8217;s an AP story that came out Saturday about an upstate New York man who is living with the new feature in his home. He suspects the gas is the result of natural gas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of the Holiday Season</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/12/18/signs-of-the-holiday-season/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/12/18/signs-of-the-holiday-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aliens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFO]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Ev&#8217;rywhere you go;
Take a look in the five and ten glistening once again
With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.
It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Toys in ev&#8217;ry store
But the prettiest sight to see is the holly that will be
On your own front door&#8230; 
—Meredith Wilson
Yes, indeed, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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