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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; FOILed Again</title>
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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>

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		<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>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>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></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>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>

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		<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>Great Lakes Health Meeting Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/29/great-lakes-health-meeting-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/29/great-lakes-health-meeting-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Lakes Health Board of Directors will hold an open meeting tomorrow morning, June 30, at 8:30am in the Hyatt Regency, Two Fountain Plaza in Buffalo.
This replaces the last open meeting that was abruptly canceled Wednesday, June 10 at Women&#8217;s and Children&#8217;s Hospital.
Click here to read the press release, sent to Artvoice from Buffalo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The High Price of Secrecy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/26/the-high-price-of-secrecy/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/26/the-high-price-of-secrecy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 16:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOIL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garfunkel Wild & Travis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great lakes health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hon. Patrick H. NeMoyer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaleida Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Meetings Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter A. Reese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reese v Daines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western New York Health System]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
On April Fool&#8217;s Day we filed a FOIL request with Great Lakes Health System of Western New York, the entity formerly known as Newco, that was created by the Berger Commission to consolidate private not for profit Kaleida Health and Erie County Medical Center, a public benefit corporation.
Last Wednesday (May 20), we received some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Plea from Andrew Rudnick</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/04/a-plea-from-andrew-rudnick/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/04/a-plea-from-andrew-rudnick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 21:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Rudnick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Niagara Partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Students First]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Catherine Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Jacobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florence Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rich Newberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WIVB]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Artvoice has obtained this email sent today from Buffalo Niagara Partnership President &#38; CEO Andrew Rudnick, imploring the receiver to forward it to &#8220;colleagues, friends and family, especially those who are registered voters in the city of Buffalo &#8211; and ask them to forward it along to others.&#8221;
Even though it didn&#8217;t land in my email [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffalo School District Receives Legal Papers, Covers Butt</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/30/buffalo-school-district-receives-legal-papers-covers-butt/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/30/buffalo-school-district-receives-legal-papers-covers-butt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Schools]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo School Board Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael J. Looby]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
At 5:55pm yesterday, after our weekly print issue went to press, look what showed up in my email inbox. It&#8217;s a letter from Michael J. Looby, legal counsel to the Buffalo School District. Nice of him to stay in touch.
Attached are those highly sensitive financial disclosure papers that I requested on Monday, April 20, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blind</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/19/blind/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/19/blind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BERC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BNRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BURA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mike locurto]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=2452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I wrote about Delaware District Councilmember Mike LoCurto&#8217;s fruitless efforts to obtain financial information from three of the city&#8217;s alphabet soup agencies:  BERC, BURA, and BNRC. For more than a month, he&#8217;s been seeking the following information:
■ a list of all outstanding loans, including borrower names, dates, and amounts loaned, amounts owed, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom of Information: It&#8217;s Your Right</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/13/freedom-of-information-its-your-right/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/03/13/freedom-of-information-its-your-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AFL-CIO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOIL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Information Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=2307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, Artvoice Editor Geoff Kelly posted a dated list of city employees and what they earned. This provoked touchy responses from some city hall employees, as well as from Michael Hoffert, Vice President, AFSCME Local 650 AFL-CIO—comparing the article to supermarket tabloid-style journalism.
But what makes me pig-biting mad is that the information we printed is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flip the Script</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/02/19/flip-the-script/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/02/19/flip-the-script/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Echo Chamber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOIA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOIL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Alter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newsweek]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Newsweek has an interesting article about secrecy that&#8217;s well worth reading. Read why, according to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, secrecy isn&#8217;t just antidemocratic, it&#8217;s stupid.
]]></description>
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		<title>Not-So-Open Meeting Tomorrow Morning</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/12/09/not-so-open-meeting-tomorrow-morning/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/12/09/not-so-open-meeting-tomorrow-morning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 22:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[great lakes health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaleida Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wned]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for the short notice, but it appears there will in fact be a Great Lakes Health Board of Directors meeting at WNED studios tomorrow, December 10, at 8:30am.
I learned this yesterday from Betsy Baumler, James Kaskie&#8217;s secretary. Kaskie is the President and CEO of both Great Lakes Health and also Kaleida Health—both entities are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voter Purge in New York State</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/21/voter-purge-in-new-york-state/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/10/21/voter-purge-in-new-york-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Voting rights watchdog Bo Lipari reports that more than 1,500,000 voters have been dropped from New York voter rolls. That includes voters designated as &#8220;inactive&#8221; or &#8220;purged.&#8221; Lipari, a retired software engineer who wrote a program to analyze documents he FOILed from the state&#8217;s voter registration base, says 14 percent of Erie County&#8217;s voters have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/08/28/the-mayors-impact-team/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/08/28/the-mayors-impact-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Brian Meyers has a piece in the News in which Darryl McPherson of the City Comptroller&#8217;s office describes improvements in the performance of the Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team.
You might recall that we here started FOILing for documents related to the Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team the day before its supervisor, Bill Buyers, was busted by a Channel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Top Secret Public Documents</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/05/23/more-top-secret-public-documents/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/05/23/more-top-secret-public-documents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 20:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Berger Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John B. Simpson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kaleida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Daines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Gioia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Western New York Health System]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
In our ongoing effort to supply public information to the people, we are pleased to offer this PDF version of the meeting minutes of the Western New York Health System, a.k.a. Newco.
I began this pursuit with a FOIL request sent on April 25, 2008, asking for both the meeting minutes dating back to January 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team—Preliminary Audit Report</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/05/21/mayors-impact-team%e2%80%94preliminary-audit-report/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/05/21/mayors-impact-team%e2%80%94preliminary-audit-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 22:04:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the text of preliminary audit report of the Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team, filed this afternoon by the City Comptroller with the Common Council:
In response to the Council&#8217;s request for an immediate audit of the Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team, following an incident on April 25, 2008, resulting in the suspension of three city workers, I am filing [...]]]></description>
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