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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; State Politics</title>
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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>
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		<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>Local Groups Beg at State Senate Budget Hearing</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/02/local-groups-beg-state-senate-budget-hearing/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/02/local-groups-beg-state-senate-budget-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antoine Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[carl kruger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Paterson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit reduction plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george maziarz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[martin malave dilan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael ranzenhofer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York State Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[william stachowski]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For the second time in four days, New York State Senators sat at a table in Western New York to listen to locals beg for money. On Friday, Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Martin Malave Dilan held a hearing at the Buffalo &#38; Erie County Historical Society to hear idea on how the state should spend [...]]]></description>
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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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4772</guid>
		<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>
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		<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>Puppets Pulling Strings</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/02/puppets-pulling-strings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[carl paladino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Center for Economic Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ECIDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Golisano]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tearing a page from the Bread and Puppet Theater, the Coalition for Economic Justice staged the following skit at the condos down by the waterfront yesterday. Pictured is a great big Tom Golisano puppet.
Location: Behind Waterfront Place Condos
Date: 10/1/09
Time: 4:00 PM
A Press Conference in 1 Act:
Setting: Rally at Waterfront Condos
Designated “Cast”:
Politician played by Eric Gallion
Developer  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reunited</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/25/reunited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hiram Monserrate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John M. Curran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pedro Espada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Pigeon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Looks like Mayor Byron Brown and Steve Pigeon are together again, again. Their on again, off again political relationship appeared to be down for the count just two months prior to the September 15 Democratic primary, in the fallout of the NYS Senate coup that stalled Albany this summer. At the time, the Buffalo News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simpson Speechifies</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/23/simpson-speechifies/</link>
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		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4583</guid>
		<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>Dale Volker&#8217;s Tea Party</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/19/dale-volkers-tea-party/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/19/dale-volkers-tea-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AV correspondent Geoffrey Anstey reports on last night&#8217;s fundraiser for State Senator Dale Volker:
On Tuesday, two separate groups gathered at the usually quiet Erie Basin Marina: one dressed in suits and ties armed with checkbooks, and the other dressed in t-shirts and slacks armed with angry signs. Both made it to the harbor on account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Espada&#8217;s Son Resigns</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/13/espadas-son-resigns/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/13/espadas-son-resigns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Albany Times-Union reports that New York State Senator Pedro&#8217;s Espada&#8217;s son, Pedro Jr., has resigned the $120,000/year job he was given in the State Senate after just two days.


Related posts (automatically generated):Pedro Espada &#038; Sons: By the NumbersDemocrats Lash OutRoasting Ranzenhofer]]></description>
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		<title>Pedro Espada &amp; Sons: By the Numbers</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/12/pedro-espada-sons-by-the-numbers/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/12/pedro-espada-sons-by-the-numbers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some figures on the Espadas:
$120,000: Annual salary for the brand new position of deputy director of intergovernment relations for the New York State Senate—a job filled this week by the son of State Senator Pedro Espada Jr., the majority leader who led the couple that paralyzed Albany earlier this summer. &#8220;Let me make it unequivocally [...]]]></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>
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		<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>More Pigeon Droppings</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/30/more-pigeon-droppings/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/30/more-pigeon-droppings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stev Pigeon]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3769</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just noticed this post (written on Friday by Jimmy Vielkind) over at the PolitckerNY.com:
During the Republican half of another lightning-quick extraordinary session this afternoon, I noticed Steve Pigeon sitting on the State Senate floor behind Senator Pedro Espada Jr.
Pigeon, who was one of the principle architects of the coup that has hobbled the chamber, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Redistricting, Stupid</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/29/its-redistricting-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/29/its-redistricting-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Again, as I suggested here, I believe the biggest prize in the struggle for control of the New York State Senate is redistricting after the 2010 Census. The frozen legislation, the pitiful circus, the Catiline conspiracies—that&#8217;s all collateral. The New York Times wrote about redistricting yesterday, suggesting that Democrats ought to have a lock on [...]]]></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>Roasting Ranzenhofer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/29/roasting-ranzenhofer/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/29/roasting-ranzenhofer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s Buffalo News, political reporter Bob McCarthy reports that New York State Senator Mike Ranzenhofer took a beating from his consituents on Saturday over the Republican coup that has left the state legislature gridlocked for the last three weeks.
Well, Senate Democrats continue to try to make Republican Senators pay for the collapse of the [...]]]></description>
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