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		<title>Left and Right Converging</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/20/left-and-right-converging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Henry Paulson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Levy Intitute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Geithner]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[AV columnist Bruce Fisher sends in this reflection on How Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner&#8217;s bad economics could turn Blue states Red in 2010:
Jim Hightower, the former Texas politician and veteran political wit, was fond of excoriating political moderates as he was of skewering Republicans. “Ain’t nothin’ in the middle of the road but yellow lines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember New London!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/17/remember-new-london/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/17/remember-new-london/#comments</comments>
		<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>$8 Billion in New Taxes and Fees on Whom?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/09/8-billion-in-new-taxes-and-fees-on-whom/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/09/8-billion-in-new-taxes-and-fees-on-whom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York State budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The print edition of today&#8217;s Buffalo News features two extra editorial pages. Resembling two full-page ads, the &#8220;Buffalo News Editorial Opinion: Say No to State Government Incompetence&#8221; lists over 75 new taxes, fees, and other &#8220;revenue raising items.&#8221; But rather than let the figures speak for themselves, a large upper-case font, superimposed over the list [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simpson Speechifies</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/23/simpson-speechifies/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/23/simpson-speechifies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Babeville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Club]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UB President John Simpson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you couldn&#8217;t get into your usual parking space at the Buffalo Club this morning, blame it on UB President John Simpson, who held his annual community address across the street at Babeville. I think I was the only sucker who put a quarter in a meter on the street. And I&#8217;m lucky I had [...]]]></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>Woodlawn Row Houses Burn</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/07/woodlawn-row-houses-burn/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/07/woodlawn-row-houses-burn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
This is sad.
Dave Torke has been beating the drum for this historic property for years, and now they&#8217;re gone.


Related posts (automatically generated):Fix Buffalo on Belmont Shelter]]></description>
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		<title>This Is Not A Drill</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/28/this-is-not-a-drill/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/28/this-is-not-a-drill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:10:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allegany State Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allegheny National Forest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Hoyt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Energy Development Corp.]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The national debate about drilling in natural areas is heating up locally as the U.S. Energy Development Corporation, located at 2350 North Forest Road in Getzville, NY, proceeds with plans to develop five new wells in Allegany State Park.
Recently, NYS Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, Larry Beahan, and other concerned citizens have been turning their attention to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Over the Weekend</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/13/over-the-weekend/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/13/over-the-weekend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:28:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BERC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goin' South]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HUD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Heaney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mickey Kearns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NRP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pba]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Stenhouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Schulman]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Four items of interest:
—Byron Brown wins the endorsement of Goin&#8217; South, the South Buffalo political organization stacked with city employees. No surprise there; there was no chance that Ray McGurn and Goin&#8217; South would buck the mayor and his allies Brian Higgins, Mark Schroeder, and Tim Kennedy. Still, it&#8217;s a show of force for Brown.
—Mickey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Rosa Gibson</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/06/remembering-rosa-gibson/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/06/remembering-rosa-gibson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rosa Gibson passed away on Friday at age 78. It is a tremendous loss to her family, to the people she worked with and for, to her neighbors, and to this city. To Artvoice, in addition to  being a dedicated community activist, she was reliable source of information, and occasionally a sharp-tongued and much appreciated [...]]]></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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Menendez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Katz Watson Group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pigeon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3666</guid>
		<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>Motion for Preliminary Injunction</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/12/motion-for-preliminary-injunction/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/12/motion-for-preliminary-injunction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malcolm Smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pedro Espada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read the court papers filed on behalf of NYS Senator Malcolm A Smith against NYS Senator Pedro Espada, Jr., in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, county of Albany.


Related posts (automatically generated):Democrats Lash OutPedro Espada &#038; Sons: By the NumbersEspada&#8217;s Son Resigns]]></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>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Antoine Thompson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Governor David Patterson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Judge Thomas Griesa]]></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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