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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; Echo Chamber</title>
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		<title>Remember New London!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/17/remember-new-london/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pfizer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wyeth]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember New London, Connecticut? In 2005, the struggling city won a Supreme Court case to bulldoze the homes of many residents, citing eminent domain, to make way for a huge expansion for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. The city threw in crazy tax breaks to lure the company there, in an effort to revitalize the city. The company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working With What&#8217;s There</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/03/working-with-whats-there/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/03/working-with-whats-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:18:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[High Line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skyway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walkway Over the Hudson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like those backward downstate New Yorkers are at it again. First, there was the successful High Line that reused a defunct Manhattan rail line as a public park, and now the Walkway Over the Hudson, the newest NYS park, which opened to the public on October 3. They even got Empire State Development grant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re All Carrying Illegal Drugs</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/19/were-all-carrying-illegal-drugs/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/19/were-all-carrying-illegal-drugs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Moses</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The American Chemical Society&#8217;s national meeting kicked off last Sunday. One interesting presentation was a U. Mass-Dartmouth research study which found that cocaine is present in up to 90 percent of paper money in the United States, particularly in larger cities such as NY, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, LA and Detroit. Biochemistry professor Yuegang Zuo, Ph.D., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another One Bites the Dust</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/17/another-one-bites-the-dust/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/17/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:40:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christopher byrd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[polish village]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shadracks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Christopher Byrd has posted the latest sad tale of a local landmark crushed to oblivion.
Visit Broadway Fillmore Alive to see which familiar old nightclub is no more.
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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>Queen City Jazz Fest Tomorrow!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/24/queen-city-jazz-fest-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/24/queen-city-jazz-fest-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colored Musicians Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queen City Jazz Fest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t miss the 4th Annual Queen City Jazz Fest at 145 Broadway (the historic Colored Musicians Club) from 1pm-9pm Saturday, July 25th.
Vendors, food, and a bunch of great performers including Will Holton, Jazzline, JWN Band, Larry Salter Big Band, Melissa Kate Project, and Sharon Bailey.


Related posts (automatically generated):See You There! Photos of WagonsSee You There! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Protect Your Home</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/23/operation-protect-your-home/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/23/operation-protect-your-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antoine Thompson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[New York State Senator Antoine Thompson will be holding a home foreclosure prevention workshop on Saturday, August 1st from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at Bennett High School, 2885 Main Street in Buffalo.
Thompson spokesperson, Heather Zeisz stated; “With the current state of the economy, it is important to give residents of New York a cost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Day in History, 1969</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/20/this-day-in-history-1969/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/20/this-day-in-history-1969/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Mann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moon landing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walter Cronkite]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Forty years ago today, on July 20, 1969, golfer Carol Mann won the LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open. Mann, who was born in Buffalo, NY, on February 3, 1941, racked up 38 tour victories during her career, including the US Women&#8217;s Open in 1965. Last year, she was named Golf&#8217;s First Lady by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bipartisan Operating Agreement Urged</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/29/bipartisan-operating-agreement-urged/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/29/bipartisan-operating-agreement-urged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a desperate move to break the NYS Senate gridlock, a coalition of 16 unions and citizens&#8217; groups have signed on to this letter that was sent to state lawmakers, urging them to adopt a bipartisan operating agreement pronto—so they can get some of the people&#8217;s business accomplished by tomorrow.
Hey, what could it hurt?


Related posts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Pigeon Helping Arlen Specter</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/18/steve-pigeon-helping-arlen-specter/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/18/steve-pigeon-helping-arlen-specter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Menendez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katz Watson Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pigeon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to liberal blog Daily Kos, former Republican, now Democratic Senator Arlen Spector from Pennsylvania will be the benefactor of a reception next Tuesday at the Regency Hotel on Park Avenue, Manhattan, NY. Steve Pigeon, fresh off his NYS senate coup, is on the committee for the event. The event chair is New Jersey senator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Takes Control of NYS Senate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/08/gop-takes-control-of-nys-senate/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/08/gop-takes-control-of-nys-senate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Albany Times Union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean Skelos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiram Monserrate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pedro Espada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pigeon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Golisano]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3519</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A power shift has taken place in Albany today, according to this story from the Albany Times Union. Dean Skelos is the new majority leader after Senators Hiram Monserrate, D-Queens, and Pedro Espada, D-Bronx switched their allegiance. Thus ends Malcolm Smith&#8217;s tenure as majority leader.
Meanwhile, the Web site for biweekly political paper City Hall says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Akwesasne Mohawk Standoff Continues into Third Day</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/03/akwesasne-mohawk-standoff-continues-into-third-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/03/akwesasne-mohawk-standoff-continues-into-third-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seaway International Bridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You think we have border issues?
The Seaway International Bridge, or the Three Nations Crossing between Rooseveltown, New York and Cornwall, Ontario, Canada has been closed since midnight, May 31, when Canadian border officials left their posts after a confrontation with 400 Akwesasne Mohawks.
The Native Americans are protesting the arming of Canadian border guards with handguns. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nestle Wins Court Case, Bottle Bill on Hold Until 2010</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/nestle-wins-court-case-bottle-bill-on-hold-until-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/nestle-wins-court-case-bottle-bill-on-hold-until-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antoine Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigger Better Bottle Bill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bottle and Can Redemption Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor David Patterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Bottled Water Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Thomas Griesa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nestle Waters of North America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Post]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sheldon Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, a court case brought by the International Bottled Water Association and Nestle Waters of North America was decided by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Griesa. The result puts New York&#8217;s recently passed Bigger Better Bottle Bill (BBBB) legislation on hold until April 1, 2010. Read Griesa&#8217;s order here.
Here&#8217;s the NYPIRG press release where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business First Illustrates Pay Disparity</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/business-first-illustrates-pay-disparity/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/business-first-illustrates-pay-disparity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Schools]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Folasade Oladele]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Crosby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Frazier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[See Through New York]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Will Keresztes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Williamsville Public Schools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Business First has released its findings on Erie County school district salaries. Buffalo Public Schools Superintendent James Williams tops the list at a base salary of $220,000. According to the See Through New York Web site, that figure was $227,427
Members of Williams&#8217;s cabinet don&#8217;t do too badly, either. Chief Academic Officer Folasade Oladele makes $159,399. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Light Rally Today!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/21/red-light-rally-today/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/21/red-light-rally-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 14:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mickey Kearns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red light cameras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[richard fontana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shredd & Ragan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Popular 103.3 The Edge radio team Shredd &#38; Ragan continue their opposition to the city&#8217;s red light camera plan with a live broadcast from Niagara Square in front of city hall today, from 3-7pm. The plan calls for putting cameras at 50 intersections around the city. City officials, including Mayor Byron Brown, claim it is [...]]]></description>
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