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		<title>An Open Letter to Commissioner David Steiner</title>
		<link>http://politicsnoir.com/2010/12/02/an-open-letter-to-commissioner-david-steiner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 21:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. David M. Steiner, Commissioner of Education, I urge you deny the request from Mayor Michael Bloomberg to grant a School District Administrator certificate to Ms. Cathleen Black. Mayor Bloomberg is seeking to place Ms. Black as Chancellor of the New York City school system, even though she does not have any of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsnoir.com&amp;blog=14750911&amp;post=520&amp;subd=amsterdamnewspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The elections hit Black power hard: The time to start fighting back is now</title>
		<link>http://politicsnoir.com/2010/11/18/the-elections-hit-black-power-hard-the-time-to-start-fighting-back-is-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By BILL LYNCH, Chairman of Bill Lynch Associates It is hard to believe that just two years ago, many of us stood in the plaza in front of the Harlem State Office Building cheering and weeping for joy over the election of the first African-American president, Barack Obama. There is no other way to describe the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsnoir.com&amp;blog=14750911&amp;post=516&amp;subd=amsterdamnewspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giuliani? What was Cuomo thinking?</title>
		<link>http://politicsnoir.com/2010/11/18/giuliani-what-was-cuomo-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ELINOR TATUM, Publisher and Editor in Chief Black New Yorkers went to the polls on November 2 and helped give Andrew Cuomo a big electoral victory over Carl Paladino. Blacks represented 18 percent of the electorate, up from 10 percent in 2006. And how is the governor-elect thanking Black New Yorkers? He has appointed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsnoir.com&amp;blog=14750911&amp;post=514&amp;subd=amsterdamnewspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State Senate Democratic majority: Every vote counts and we are counting every vote</title>
		<link>http://politicsnoir.com/2010/11/11/state-senate-democratic-majority-every-vote-counts-and-we-are-counting-every-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AmsterdamNews</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By STATE SEN. BILL PERKINS Most of the focus of the 2010 election has been on Capitol Hill, but closer to home here in New York, there are three closely contested races where counts are still underway that will determine which party holds the majority in the now Democrat-controlled State Senate. These races are outside [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsnoir.com&amp;blog=14750911&amp;post=510&amp;subd=amsterdamnewspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOP ‘shellacking’</title>
		<link>http://politicsnoir.com/2010/11/04/gop-%e2%80%98shellacking%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By HERB BOYD, Special to the AmNews In an hour-long speech followed by a question and answer session in the White House’s East Wing, a day after the election, President Barack Obama said, “I take responsibility,” on a number of points. And no acceptance of blame was more crucial and telling than the tidal wave, or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsnoir.com&amp;blog=14750911&amp;post=495&amp;subd=amsterdamnewspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voters bring back term limits</title>
		<link>http://politicsnoir.com/2010/11/04/voters-bring-back-term-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 21:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By CYRIL JOSH BARKER, Amsterdam News Staff New Yorkers spoke loud and clear at the polls on Tuesday by allowing city elected officials to serve only two terms. The vote also prevents the City Council from voting to extend term limits. Responding to one of two questions on the back of their ballots, 74 percent of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsnoir.com&amp;blog=14750911&amp;post=492&amp;subd=amsterdamnewspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New voting system smoother for Election Day but not problem-free</title>
		<link>http://politicsnoir.com/2010/11/04/new-voting-system-smoother-for-election-day-but-not-problem-free/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsnoir.com/2010/11/04/new-voting-system-smoother-for-election-day-but-not-problem-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By CYRIL JOSH BARKER, Amsterdam News Staff While the new voting system for the general election was an improvement from the primaries, problems still arose for many voters who cast their ballots. On Tuesday, voters again used the new way of casting their votes by using paper ballots, rather than lever machines. During the primaries, problems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsnoir.com&amp;blog=14750911&amp;post=489&amp;subd=amsterdamnewspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No official stamp, Freedom Party marches on anyway</title>
		<link>http://politicsnoir.com/2010/11/04/no-official-stamp-freedom-party-marches-on-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://politicsnoir.com/2010/11/04/no-official-stamp-freedom-party-marches-on-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AmsterdamNews</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charles Barron]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nayaba Arinde, Amsterdam News Editor The morning after the night before Freedom Party supporters hit the ground running. “Oh we got the win!” beamed Councilman Charles Barron, who up until Tuesday night had been the Freedom Party gubernatorial candidate. “We are having a press conference on Thursday to announce our founding convention on February 22 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsnoir.com&amp;blog=14750911&amp;post=486&amp;subd=amsterdamnewspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cuomo and the Community</title>
		<link>http://politicsnoir.com/2010/11/04/cuomo-and-the-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Curtis R. Simmons, Stephon Johnson, Josh Cyrus Baker and Amity Paye Andrew Cuomo has assembled a lengthy Urban Agenda document covering a range of issues that are of interest to communities of color. In a document covering more than 250 pages his staff has covered a range of issue from criminal justice, housing, education, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsnoir.com&amp;blog=14750911&amp;post=483&amp;subd=amsterdamnewspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dems sweep state’s top positions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By HERB BOYD Special to the AmNews Unlike the rest of the country, where the Republicans reaped a harvest of votes and almost ran the midterm tables, the state senate race in New York remains a big question mark with three races still up for grabs. Not in doubt, though, are the state’s top positions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politicsnoir.com&amp;blog=14750911&amp;post=480&amp;subd=amsterdamnewspolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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