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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; Erie County</title>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not the First Time Collins Called Silver an Anti-Christ</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/29/its-not-the-first-time-collins-called-silver-an-anti-christ/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/29/its-not-the-first-time-collins-called-silver-an-anti-christ/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheldon Silver]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Erie County Executive Chris Collins called Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver an anti-Christ last Saturday night at a Republican dinner, it wasn&#8217;t the first time he&#8217;d pulled the line out of his bag.
He recently made the exact same comparison to a group of Buffalo State political science students, who were visiting the Rath Building. Two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Quatrain of Nostradamus Discovered</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/27/lost-quatrain-of-nostradamus-discovered/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/27/lost-quatrain-of-nostradamus-discovered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antichrist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nostradamus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Archeologists believe they may have found a long-lost quatrain penned by the famous renaissance seer Nostradamus, in the remains of a room once used as a salon by Catherine de Medici. The four-line verse is thought to be one of the fifty-eight quatrains missing from the his collection of predictions known as the seventh “Century.” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Old Obstacle to Jail Expansion Unearthed</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/09/old-obstacle-to-jail-expansion-unearthed/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/09/old-obstacle-to-jail-expansion-unearthed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[E.B. Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie County Holding Center]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[County Executive Chris Collins&#8217;s proposal to build a new lockup at 120-134 W. Eagle Street is not a new idea, according to this 1998 Buffalo News Article.
The original section of the Erie County Holding Center was designed by renowned architect E.B. Green, who also designed the Albright Knox Art Gallery, the First Presbyterian Church and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Sacha on District Attorney&#8217;s Failure to Prosecute Steve Pigeon</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/28/mark-sacha-on-das-failure-to-prosecute-steve-pigeon/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/28/mark-sacha-on-das-failure-to-prosecute-steve-pigeon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Below is Assistant Erie County District Attorney Mark Sacha&#8217;s complete statement accusing his boss, Frank Sedita, of refusing to prosecute Steve Pigeon for election law violations, as detailed by Mike Beebe and Bob McCarthy in this Buffalo News article:
My name is Mark Sacha and I am an Assistant Erie County District Attorney.  I have served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blank, Void, and Scattering</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/10/blank-void-and-scattering/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/10/blank-void-and-scattering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While writing today&#8217;s story about next week&#8217;s Democratic primary, I noticed that in the 2005 Democratic primary for mayor, 2,420 ballots out of 30,308 were discarded for being &#8220;blank,&#8221; &#8220;void,&#8221; and &#8220;scattering.&#8221; That&#8217;s nearly 8% of the vote. In the 2001 Democratic mayoral primary, the number of discounted ballots was 3,920 out of 32,888—almost 12%.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maria Whyte Reappointed</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/13/maria-whyte-reappointed/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/13/maria-whyte-reappointed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie County Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Patrick NeMoyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maria Whyte]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ralph Hernandez]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an election contest that&#8217;s easy to call: Judge Patrick NeMoyer has ruled to strike Ralph Hernandez from the ballot in the Erie County Legislature District 6 race citing problems with his  signature petitions.
Maria Whyte will retain her seat, uncontested.


Related posts (automatically generated):Blank, Void, and ScatteringBuffalo-Niagara Partnership: Thinning the Herd of School Board CandidatesSchool Board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gaughan Effect Causes Downsizing at Buffalo News!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/12/gaughan-effect-causes-downsizing-at-buffalo-news/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/12/gaughan-effect-causes-downsizing-at-buffalo-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[AV&#8217;s courts and utilities correspondent, John Duke, sent us this dispatch today, occasioned by Monday&#8217;s front-page Buffalo News piece on Kevin Gaughan&#8217;s downsizing government campaign:
In a poorly written and misleading article printed on the front page of the Buffalo News on Monday, a reporter claimed that the man who started the government downsizing revolution in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great Lakes Health Retreat in Progress</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/30/great-lakes-health-retreat-in-progress/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/30/great-lakes-health-retreat-in-progress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Walsh Jr]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great lakes health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hyatt Regency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaleida Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin E. Cichocki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Meetings Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Gioia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sharon L. Hanson]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3773</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[


As I write this post, the Great Lakes Health system is conducting a private retreat at the Hyatt Regency downtown. The event is closed to the public and press.
The retreat follows a half-hour &#8220;open meeting&#8221; conducted by GLH board chair Robert Gioia, and board members Edward Walsh, Jr., Sharon L. Hanson, and Kevin E. Cichocki, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Hall Wins at Slots, Revises City Budget</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/15/city-hall-wins-at-slots-revises-city-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/15/city-hall-wins-at-slots-revises-city-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 15:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seneca casino]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Abandoning claims that a steady stream of red light runners will fund the hiring of 20 new police officers once surveillance cameras are installed at 50 city intersections, city officials now say that a windfall from the Seneca Casino will pay for the new hires.
The Buffalo News reports that $2.5 million—twice as much as was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GREAT LAKES HEALTH TO HOLD COMMUNITY FORUM TOMORROW, MAY 12TH, DOWNTOWN LIBRARY</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/11/great-lakes-health-to-hold-community-forum-tomorrow-may-12th-downtown-library/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/11/great-lakes-health-to-hold-community-forum-tomorrow-may-12th-downtown-library/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[and Hon. James A.W. McLeod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brenda McDuffie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great lakes health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Irene Snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Kaskie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Cichocki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Gresham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sundra Rice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Quatroche]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the interest of transparency and openness, here&#8217;s the press release that arrived in my email at 11:30am this morning. I requested it after hearing Tom Quatroche, Senior Vice President of Marketing &#38; Planning for ECMC mention tomorrow&#8217;s &#8220;community forum&#8221; at the end of the Erie County Legislature Health and Human Services Committee meeting this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>General Objections to Buffalo School Board Candidates</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/17/general-objections-to-buffalo-school-board-candidates/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/17/general-objections-to-buffalo-school-board-candidates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryon McIntyre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo School Board]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cassandra Cosby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Jacobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elaine Mootry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florence Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Yellen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Aronow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herbert Bellamy Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John B. Licata]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patricia E. Devis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebekah A Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rosalind J. Hampton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
I went down to the Erie County board of elections today and bought $1.75 worth of public documents.
Click here and you can have the same information for free. You&#8217;ll learn that of the nine candidates running for the three at-large board seats, only the three incumbents—Catherine Collins, Chris Jacobs, and Florence Johnson—have not had objections [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatch: IDA Reform Protest</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/16/dispatch-ida-reform-protest/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/16/dispatch-ida-reform-protest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antoine Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carl paladino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coalition for Economic Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IDA reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Hoyt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AV&#8217;s roving reporter Ellen Przepasniak sent in this dispatch from yesterday afternoon&#8217;s IDA reform protest, organized by the Coalition for Economic Justice:
While protestors in period costume held a tea party outside City Hall on Wednesday to protect unfair taxation, the Coalition for Economic Justice held a smaller, calmer rally a few blocks away at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Dedicated Fund for Parks and Culturals</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/12/18/a-dedicated-fund-for-parks-and-culturals/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/12/18/a-dedicated-fund-for-parks-and-culturals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Erie County]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week I wrote about the need for dedicated county funding for parks and cultural institutions.
The Erie County property tax rate is lowest of any county in the State of New York. The price today is about $5 per thousand of assessed value—$2/thousand lower than when Dennis Gorski left in 2000. Even if we had [...]]]></description>
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