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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; The Buffalo News</title>
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	<description>News &#38; Commentary from the Artvoice Editorial staff</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>Reunited</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/25/reunited/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/25/reunited/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Politics]]></category>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4617</guid>
		<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>Nice Work If You Can Get It</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/11/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/09/11/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tower of Babel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4503</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
According to a story in today&#8217;s Buffalo News, Buffalo Police spokesman Mike DeGeorge &#8220;declined to comment on reports that Derenda had directed the police officers to bring Stokes to Brown’s office.”
In the same story, mayor Brown&#8217;s spokesman Peter Cutler &#8220;referred questions to Sciolino.&#8221;
According to Merriam Webster&#8217;s online dictionary:


Main Entry:	spokes·man

Pronunciation: \ˈspōks-mən\
Function: noun
Etymology: probably irregular from spoke, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Rudnick, Local Advocate</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/31/andrew-rudnick-local-advocate/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/31/andrew-rudnick-local-advocate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Casinos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Rudnick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aqueduct Gaming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Niagara Partnership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McKissack & McKissack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Saratoga Gaming and Raceway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shawmut]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thalden Emery]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4406</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Buffalo Niagara Partnership President and CEO Andrew Rudnick writes in a letter published by the Buffalo News that Delaware North Companies should run the Aqueduct horse track in Queens. Delaware North has a well-known interest in these kinds of operations.
The note stresses that the team (Aqueduct Gaming) involved in the deal are New York companies: [...]]]></description>
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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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4302</guid>
		<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>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>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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4259</guid>
		<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>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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4256</guid>
		<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>Open Letter to the Buffalo Niagara Partnership</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/31/open-letter-to-the-buffalo-niagara-partnership/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/31/open-letter-to-the-buffalo-niagara-partnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Bills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Rudnick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Niagara Partnership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=4161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the &#8220;Snappy Answers to Stupid Claims&#8221; department&#8230;
On page A3 of today&#8217;s Buffalo News, you can read the full-color, full-page open letter to the community from The Buffalo Niagara Partnership Executive Committee, also known as &#8220;the usual suspects.&#8221;
Question: What kind of Chamber of Commerce is so jittery about its public image that it feels the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Certo Speaks Out</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/10/certo-speaks-out/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/10/certo-speaks-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace bridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Joe Certo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peace Bridge Neighborhood activist Peter Joe Certo is upset with The Buffalo News for playing fast and loose with its own policies. Here&#8217;s an email he sent around to dozens of media folks, including many writers at the daily paper. He offers real estate records and email strings as evidence. Read on&#8230;and on...
&#8220;A writer or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buffalo News Watch</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/09/buffalo-news-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/09/buffalo-news-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamie Moses</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/09/buffalo-news-watch/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We hope no one missed the late-breaking news story on the front page of today&#8217;s Buffalo News telling us that area drivers needn&#8217;t worry about traffic jams. We really don&#8217;t have any traffic jams. But to certify that this was a solid investigative report, the News consulted with an assistant professor of engineering from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why The Wilkeson House Is Historic</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/04/why-the-wilkeson-house-is-historic/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/04/why-the-wilkeson-house-is-historic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Peace bridge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[771 Busti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FHWA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public Bridge Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wilkeson mansion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to refute all the arguments with which I disagree in this Buffalo News editorial, which says that it&#8217;s dumb to force the Public Bridge Authority to maintain the houses it owns on Busti, and to prevent the PBA from demolishing them until they&#8217;re finished with the environmental review process—which is required by [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[seneca casino]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3265</guid>
		<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>What I Meant to Say…</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/05/what-i-meant-to-say%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/05/what-i-meant-to-say%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Buffalo News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Gates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buffalo news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BuffaloPnndit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Munger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Buffet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, BuffaloPundit posted Warren Buffett&#8217;s less-than-enthusiastic assessment of the American newspaper industry, offered during Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s annual shareholders meeting:
“For most newspapers in the United States, we would not buy them at any price…they have the possibility of going to just unending losses.”
The Buffalo News, which is owned by Berkshire Hathaway, neglected to include that comment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Byron Brown, Crystal Peoples, Antoine Thompson, and Buffalo Students First</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/03/byron-brown-crystal-peoples-antoine-thompson-and-buffalo-students-first/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/05/03/byron-brown-crystal-peoples-antoine-thompson-and-buffalo-students-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 18:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Buffalo Schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anoine Thompson]]></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[crystal peoples]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donn Esmonde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florence Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Aronow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rod Watson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
What&#8217;s the message Buffalo Students First is sending to voters this weekend promoting the incumbent candidates, three days before the school board election? That depends on where you live in the city of Buffalo.
First, here&#8217;s a mailer sent by Buffalo Students First to voters in the 144th Assembly District, represented by Sam Hoyt. The message [...]]]></description>
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