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			 <title>Senate Dems Look to Nat'l Issues for Help</title>
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			 <description>Redistricting, corruption trials and the rise of a breakaway faction of Democrats willing to put up candidates to challenge incumbents.  In spite of the bad news, Senate Democrats hold out hope. </description>
			 <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			 <title>Cuomo Proposes a New Agency to Help Disabled </title>
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			 <description>Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed legislation on Monday that would create a new state agency to investigate and prosecute cases of abuse and neglect of disabled people. </description>
			 <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			 <title>Council Politics Taint Discretionary Funding</title>
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			 <description>A new study says that politics play too large a role in how the City Council's discretionary funds are divided among its members.</description>
			 <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			 <title>Critics Attack Influence of the Committee to Save New York </title>
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			 <description>Gov. Andrew Cuomo has repeatedly decried the influence of money in politics but he has been the beneficiary of one group's intense spending. Jonathan Camhi looks at the Committee to Save New York. </description>
			 <pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			 <title>State Legisalture Battles Over Minimum Wage Increase </title>
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			 <description>NYC isn't the only place for wage debates as state legislators are in the grips of a clash over a minimum wage increase. </description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			 <title>Quinn Presses Ahead on Living Wage</title>
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			 <description>Council Speaker Christine Quinn took her sharpest stance against the Mayor yet  passing a Living Wage bill he has promised to veto all the while defending the Mayor to his critics. </description>
			 <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			 <title>Federal Reports Warn of Staff Shortages at DEC</title>
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			 <description>Federal reports warn of staffing shortages at the Department of Environmental Conservation in areas that are &quot;critical to protecting public health.&quot;
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			 <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			 <title>Where Tech and Environment Meet </title>
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			 <description>In Our Backyards is using crowd funding and neighborhood volunteers to kickstart local green projects.</description>
			 <pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			 <title>Analyzing Hydroelectric </title>
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			 <description>The City Council directed the Department of Environmental Protection to assess the possibility of hydroelectric projects that will generate electricity from New York's water supply system.</description>
			 <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			 <title>Students Push For DREAM Act </title>
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			 <description>Students and advocates push Albany to pass the DREAM Act during current legislative session after Governor Cuomo declines to include the bill in his state budget. </description>
			 <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			 <title>Making Phones Harder to Steal </title>
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			 <description>Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and Sen. Chuck Schumer have prodded the federal government to take action to fight phone theft. What will new blacklists mean for consumers? </description>
			 <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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			 <title>Court Finds City Isn't Obligated to Continue Housing Program </title>
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			 <description>The abrupt defunding of a program that housed the homeless lead to a lawsuit against the city in an attempt to force continuation of the program. Was the city forced to continue the program? Emily Jane Goodman explains. </description>
			 <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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