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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; FOIL</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>
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		<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>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>
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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>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.
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		<title>FOILed Again: Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team, Day 7</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/05/05/foiled-again-mayors-impact-team-day-7/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/05/05/foiled-again-mayors-impact-team-day-7/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Buyers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOIL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom of Information Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Golombek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayor's Impact Tea]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been seven business days since I filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the City of Buffalo for all financial records related to the Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team since January 1, 2006. In that time…

the chief of the Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team, the venerable political hack Bill Buyers, was caught by cameramen from Channel 7 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOILed Again: Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team Audit Requested</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/04/28/foiled-again-mayors-impact-team-audit-requested/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/04/28/foiled-again-mayors-impact-team-audit-requested/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOIL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impact team]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael kearns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael locurto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[richard fontana]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Delaware District Councilmember Mike LoCurto, South District Councilmember Mickey Kearns, and Lovejoy District Councilmember Rich Fontana have filed a resolution asking City Comptroller Andy SanFilippo to audit the Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team.
Last Monday I spoke with Tony Farina in the Comptroller&#8217;s office, who told me that he knew of no past audit of the Mayor&#8217;s Impact [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOILed Again: Day 2</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/04/28/foiled-again-day-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/04/28/foiled-again-day-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOIL]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[michael kearns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael locurto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[richard fontana]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the quickest response to a FOIL request Artvoice has ever received from the City of Buffalo. Less than two business days after I requested by email that the city give me all records related to the budget and expenditures of the Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team since January 1, 2006, Assistant Corporation Counsel Cavette Chambers [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>FOILed Again: Funny You Should Ask…</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/04/26/foiled-again-funny-you-should-ask%e2%80%a6/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/04/26/foiled-again-funny-you-should-ask%e2%80%a6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOIL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impact team]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Day 1 of my FOIL watch was a bust: Friday flew by with nary a word from Peter Cutler, director of communications for Mayor Byron Brown. I filed a request with Cutler Thursday evening under New York&#8217;s Freedom of Information Law for all budget and expenditure records for the Mayor&#8217;s Impact Team since January 1, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOILed Again: Day 1</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/04/25/foiled-again-day-1/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2008/04/25/foiled-again-day-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOILed Again]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[city of buffalo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FOIL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter cutler]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/?p=412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple months ago, fed up with the City of Buffalo&#8217;s policy on sharing public documents, I wrote a piece about it. Basically the city&#8217;s policy is this: There is no such thing as a public document that can be shared with a citizen without that citizen filing a formal request under the state&#8217;s Freedom [...]]]></description>
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