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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; BERC</title>
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		<title>Over the Weekend</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/13/over-the-weekend/</link>
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		<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>Sunshine the Best Disinfectant</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/sunshine-the-best-disinfectant/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/01/sunshine-the-best-disinfectant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Ideas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BERC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BURA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fontana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Franczyk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kearns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LoCurto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rivera]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=3443</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Got this press release today from the Common Council, concerning a resolution demanding more transparency from the city&#8217;s semi-autonomous agencies and boards:
Council Members Kearns and LoCurto and their co-sponsors, Council Members Rivera, Fontana, and Franczyk, are introducing two resolutions for consideration by the Full Common Council, that would increase the transparency of operations of all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Library: BERC, BURA, BNRC Documents</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/02/the-library-berc-bura-bnrc-documents/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/04/02/the-library-berc-bura-bnrc-documents/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BERC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BNRC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BURA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=2639</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I was sifting through the BERC, BURA, and BNRC financial documents released by the Brown administration to the Common Council last week under threat of Council subpoena, as I expect to be doing for several days, when it occurred to me: I ought to post them online, so that anyone else who wants [...]]]></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>Brian Davis: Back to Work</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/02/17/brian-davis-back-to-work/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/02/17/brian-davis-back-to-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BERC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank LoTempio III]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Brinkworth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[One Sunset]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=1968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ellicott District Councilmember Brian Davis is back in City Hall today, after a two-week medical leave that he happened to take just as charges surfaced that he bounced a check for more than $3,500 and skipped out on a private loan of $5,000 more. Brian Meyer of the Buffalo News writes:
When pressed by a reporter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Trouble at BERC</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/16/more-trouble-at-berc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/16/more-trouble-at-berc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BERC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Empire Zone]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I learned that BERC&#8217;s John Riccione had been quietly fired.
This morning a source told me that BERC&#8217;s Lorrie Abounader, who oversaw the Empire Zone program in Buffalo, has been put on administrative leave.
Abounader apparently is being disciplined for poor performance—specifically for being unresponsive to businesses that called her office.
Riccione&#8217;s firing, I&#8217;m told, was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trouble at BERC?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/12/trouble-at-berc/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/09/12/trouble-at-berc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BERC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Donna Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HUD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Banko]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A poster over at SpeakupWNY says that John Riccione, a finance officer at BERC, has been quietly fired. Peter Cutler, the mayor&#8217;s communications director, confirmed that Riccione had been let go and told me it happened about two weeks ago. Because it&#8217;s a personnel matter, he won&#8217;t say why.
The other day I was speaking to [...]]]></description>
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