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<pubDate>Tue, 9 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<title>A big Domi-NO from CB1</title>
<author>By Andy Campbell</author>
<description><![CDATA[Community Board 1 rejected the $1.2-billion redevelopment of the old Domino Sugar factory on Tuesday night.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:38:11 EST</pubDate>
<title>ATLANTIC YARDS: Ratner breaks ground! Jay-Z celebrates! Others protest!</title>
<author>By Stephen Brown</author>
<description><![CDATA[A whirlwind and symbolic day in the Atlantic Yards footprint.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 8 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<title>POLITICRASHER: Paterson&#8217;s dog-and-pony show</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Our columnist yearns for the days when the governor did his job by day and slept with prostitutes by night.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:59:55 EST</pubDate>
<title>City seals deal to take over Brooklyn Bridge Park</title>
<author>By Andy Campbell and Stephen Brown</author>
<description><![CDATA[The city on Wednesday officially took over development of &#8212; and funding for &#8212; Brooklyn Bridge Park, an agreement that supporters say &#8220;guarantees&#8221; that the waterfront development will indeed be completed.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:41:33 EST</pubDate>
<title>CLEANING THE GOWANUS: BREAKING NEWS: EPA announces its Superfund decision: YES!</title>
<author>By Gersh Kuntzman</author>
<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re live on the conference call about the federal government&#8217;s decision over Superfunding the Gowanus Canal. Keep clicking refresh! It doesn&#8217;t get more exciting, or live, than this!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:29:29 EST</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 44: Judge tossed from City Council race </title>
<author>By Stephen Witt</author>
<description><![CDATA[Amid allegations of dirty politics, Republican candidate Jonathan Judge was thrown off the ballot Tuesday for the special 44th District City Council election.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<title>ATLANTIC YARDS: Big court win yesterday &#8212; groundbreaking today</title>
<author>By Stephen Brown</author>
<description><![CDATA[Bruce Ratner&#8217;s dream moves closer to reality, thanks to a judge&#8217;s ruling on Wednesday.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:45:15 EST</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 33: No &#8216;Rose&#8217; thorn here &#8212; Planning Commission gives OK to W&#8217;burg towers</title>
<author>By Andy Campbell</author>
<description><![CDATA[The City Planning Commission voted on Monday to approve the controversial Rose Plaza on the River, a mixed-use, 800-unit apartment complex along the Williamsburg waterfront &#8212; a decision that bucks Borough President Markowitz&#8217;s rejection in January.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:39:24 EST</pubDate>
<title>MAYOR: Money woes loom for Coney Island&#8217;s Community Board 13</title>
<author>By Mich&#232;le De Meglio</author>
<description><![CDATA[Community Board 13 fears it will be &#8220;decimated&#8221; by another round of budget cuts.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:03:17 EST</pubDate>
<title>COUNCIL DISTRICT 44: Tischler knocked off ballot in 44th District City Council race</title>
<author>By Stephen Witt</author>
<description><![CDATA[All he needed was 765 signatures and a dream of becoming the first 18-year-old city council member.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:32:39 EST</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT: Marty backs Downtown Brooklyn Partnership as money dries up</title>
<author>By Stephen Witt</author>
<description><![CDATA[As the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership (DBP) faces a major hit in funding, they are finding an ally in Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:29:49 EST</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN: Pols &#8220;haggle&#8221; with landlords to keep day care centers</title>
<author>By Thomas Tracy </author>
<description><![CDATA[When the city&#8217;s Administration of Children&#8217;s Services (ACS) announced recently that budget constraints were forcing them to close ten borough day care centers, City Councilmember Lew Fidler had a simple yet profound solution for their plight.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Mar 2010 13:40:15 EST</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN: Whole Foods Gowanus site to be clean by April</title>
<author>By Gary Buiso</author>
<description><![CDATA[Whole Foods remains intent on developing its property along the Gowanus Canal, a toxic site that should be cleaned by April, an environmental consultant for the company said this week.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 3 Mar 2010 13:05:58 EST</pubDate>
<title>MAYOR: EPA designates Gowanus Canal a Superfund site</title>
<author>By Gary Buiso</author>
<description><![CDATA[The Environmental Protection Agency today declared the Gowanus Canal a Superfund site, ending nearly a year of often toxic debate and beginning what supporters say will be a new dawn along one of the nation&#8217;s most polluted waterways.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:31:37 EST</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN: Kruger takes next step in taxing Native American cigarettes</title>
<author>By Thomas Tracy </author>
<description><![CDATA[Carl Kruger is still fired up about taxing tobacco.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:23:18 EST</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN: Law closes loophole separating church and thirst </title>
<author>By Stephen Witt</author>
<description><![CDATA[Two Brooklyn lawmakers are tightening a law so people don&#8217;t drink near where they pray.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:06:38 EST</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN: Brooklyn Politics: Are Cuomo and Kruger campaignemeys?</title>
<author>Courier Life</author>
<description><![CDATA[This week we at the Courier wonder why Attorney General and Gubenetorial candidate Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s headlining a fundraiser for State Senate Finance Committee Chair Carl Kruger, even when their political ideologies are vastly different. Have they become, to coin a new word, campaignemeys? Read on for more.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 4 Mar 2010 16:25:41 EST</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN: East River Park dodges closure</title>
<author>By Aaron Short</author>
<description><![CDATA[East River State Park has avoided Albany&#8217;s budget axe with the agility of the hipsters who play dodgeball during the park&#8217;s popular summer concert series.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:23:55 EST</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN: Brooklyn Politics: It takes two to tango</title>
<author>Courier Life Staffers</author>
<description><![CDATA[This week is chocked full of tidbits, from the news that Councilmembers Erik Dilan and Letitia James were named co-chairs of the Brooklyn delegation (again) to the three lucky Brooklyn blokes who were named to the Mayor&#8217;s Charter Revision Commission. Read on for more!]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 3 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<title>MCMAHON ON LINE 1: McMahon in the middle</title>
<author>By Gersh Kuntzman</author>
<description><![CDATA[Bay Ridge&#8217;s freshman congressman is named the &#8220;most centrist&#8221; lawmaker in Washington. But our analysis shows that Mike McMahon is plenty liberal and plenty conservative when he wants to be.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:34:19 EST</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN: Squadron says no to Senesh plan</title>
<author>By Gary Buiso</author>
<description><![CDATA[Allowing a Carroll Gardens private school to expand into its courtyard would set a dangerous precedent and should be thwarted, a local lawmaker implored this week.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 8 Mar 2010 14:22:17 EST</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN: Parents fight school budget cuts</title>
<author>By Mich&#232;le De Meglio</author>
<description><![CDATA[Brooklyn parents came out in force last week to protest the state&#8217;s proposed $1 billion cut in school funding.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:29:40 EST</pubDate>
<title>MAYOR: Borough takes &#8216;wait and see attitude&#8217; toward Charter Revision Commission</title>
<author>By Joe Maniscalco</author>
<description><![CDATA[Community boards across the borough are crossing their fingers and hoping for the best this week now that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced the members of the new Charter Revision Commission.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 5 Mar 2010 16:46:10 EST</pubDate>
<title>BROOKLYN: Melee erupts at hearing as straphangers &#38; local pols rail against MTA</title>
<author>By Helen Klein</author>
<description><![CDATA[A hearing on proposed Metropolitan Transportation Authority service cuts devolved into chaos after a woman &#8212; who tried to speak without first being called to the microphone &#8212; was arrested.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 2 Mar 2010 11:41:33 EST</pubDate>
<title>CLEANING THE GOWANUS: The other dead zone around the Gowanus</title>
<author>By Stephen Brown</author>
<description><![CDATA[On eve of federal Superfund announcement &#8212; 10 am today! &#8212; opponents of Superfund trot out a new argument against the designation.]]></description>
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