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	<title>WNYMedia.net &#187; Alan Bedenko</title>
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		<title>Flame Bait: Statler</title>
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I think keeping a mothballed, unused Statler with a negative value needing tens of millions of dollars in renovations and environmental remediation in the very heart of downtown Buffalo is infinitely worse than demolishing it and allowing something to be built on that block that people might actually use. 

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		<link>http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2010/02/flame-bait-statler/</link>
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		<title>The Lowly Cab</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In New York City, cabs are an integral part of the public transportation system.  While privately owned and operated, cab medallions are tightly regulated and worth their weight in diamonds.  
The problem is that since the demise of Marathon Checker, there has been no uniform New York taxicab on the road.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mother of All Scandals!1!</title>
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Governor Paterson is not going to resign. 
All of this is viral marketing to build up hype for what will ultimately be a pretty benign profile piece on a controversial political figure, and that Cuomo&#8217;s people are promoting the crap out of the whole this-is-career-ending meme. 
Don&#8217;t believe the hype. 

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		<link>http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2010/02/mother-of-all-scandals1/</link>
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		<title>Erie County Control Board: The Empire Strikes Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t it ironic that we&#8217;d save about a million bucks per year in county taxpayer dollars if we got rid of the ECFSA?  How fiscally &#8220;adult&#8221;.  
On Friday, the control board&#8217;s finance committee voted to recommend going back to a &#8220;hard&#8221; control period, because it says the administration&#8217;s four-year plan is defective and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Who</title>
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Best joke I saw on Twitter:  If you want to figure out who&#8217;ll be playing the halftime show in 2011, just figure out which group would have been a great &#8220;get&#8221; for Super Bowl VI. 
Me? I saw two British ex-Mod OAPs reliving their 60s and 70s heyday playing that most detestable of musical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Along the Kabul Gorge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the Times doesn&#8217;t have the Paterson kitten-drowning story yet, it does have this cool piece about a mountain pass in Afghanistan.  Happy Motoring!
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		<link>http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2010/02/along-the-kabul-gorge/</link>
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		<title>Paterson Rumor Mill</title>
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The New York Times is supposedly working on a &#8220;blockbuster&#8221; story about Governor David Paterson.  From what I can gather, he shoots kittens while snorting heroin and having sex with hookers who quite literally stand in line in front of the governor&#8217;s mansion waiting their turn.  
At least, that&#8217;s what must be going [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2010/02/paterson-rumor-mill/</link>
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		<title>Last Night on CBS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Superbowl was surprisingly exciting last night, although most of the ads were sort of lame and formulaic.  Look elsewhere for analysis of the game.  Although the very existence of a sports commentating and analysis industry proves that I&#8217;m wrong, as far as I know, it was just a football game.  Yay [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2010/02/last-night-on-cbs/</link>
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		<title>Quick Saturday Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. It is fundamentally unfair that for the past few winters, the east coast has been battered by one or two bad Nor&#8217;easters while Buffalo has gotten a smattering of snow here and there.  
2. Governor Ravitch? 
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		<link>http://wnymedia.net/wnymedia/buffalopundit/2010/02/quick-saturday-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Keep Calm and Carry On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t see the cut version of Jon Stewart on Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s Factor the other night, but Gawker reviewed the entire, uncut version on Fox&#8217;s website and brings us highlights from the parts that didn&#8217;t make it to air.  Which include many of Stewart&#8217;s strongest arguments about Fox News&#8217; descent into hysterical, emotion-driven rage. [...]]]></description>
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