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		<title>Commentary: Why Albany Needs an Open Container Ordinance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jordan Sampietro 
Would you be surprised to learn that drinking alcoholic beverages on the streets and sidewalks of Albany is legal?  People are legally able to stroll down Solano Avenue or walk by a school with a beer or Jack Daniels whiskey in hand. According to the Albany Police, our city lacks something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2010/03/09/why-albany-needs-an-open-container-ordinance/</link>
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		<title>Transition Albany hosts climate change film</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Information submitted by Miya Kitahara
A small band of Albany residents has formed &#8220;Transition Albany,&#8221; one chapter in a growing global movement to foster community resilience in the face of climate change and related challenges of peak oil use and the economic crisis. (visit www.transitionalbany.org)
Transition Albany is the 59th official Transition Initiative in the United States, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2010/03/05/transition-albany-hosts-climate-change-film/</link>
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		<title>AUSD Sup. to meet with public on budget</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time again: time to hammer out a school budget for the next academic year. Albany Superintendent of Schools Marla Stephenson will meet with the public Thursday evening, February 11 to present her proposal for next year&#8217;s school district budget.
The event is from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the new City Council Chambers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2010/02/08/ausd-sup-to-meet-with-public-on-budget/</link>
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		<title>MLK Jr day: Commit to serve</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 18, the City of Albany will .
host a second annual &#8220;Commit to Serve&#8221; expo. Designed to help people heed the call of president Barack Obama to devote the day to service, the event
will offer ways that people can volunteer to help the community and the world. It [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2010/01/15/mlk-jr-day-commit-to-serve/</link>
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		<title>Albany groups focus on Climate Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Ellen Toomey and Emma Rotem
Dec. 7, 2009 &#8212; This week begins the international summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, to craft a new global treaty on climate change. 
&#8220;Thinking globally and acting locally,&#8221; Albany citizens and city government are learning and taking action to meet the climate change challenges we all face. These efforts include citizen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/12/07/albany-groups-focus-on-climate-change/</link>
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		<title>Waterfront survey open till Friday midnight</title>
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By Barbara Grady
After a round of community meetings about the Albany waterfront indicated that residents want both expanded open space and a continuation of tax revenue-generating activities, residents now have a second chance to voice their opinions. They have two days left to respond to a detailed survey about their hopes for the 190 acres [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/11/19/waterfront-survey-open-till-friday-midnight/</link>
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		<title>Golden Gate Fields Sale uncertain</title>
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Horses and trainers prepare for a race at Golden Gate Fields
By Barbara Grady
The Golden Gate Fields race track is scheduled to be auctioned off for sale on February 25 in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court proceeding designed to let its owner Magna Entertainment Corp. sell assets to raise funds.
But whether a sale of the Albany horse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/11/14/golden-gate-fields-sale-uncertain/</link>
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		<title>Greening of Golden Gate Fields</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Grady-
Behind its huge, brightly lit score board, in the turf receiving the pounding hoofs of galloping horses and in other places at Golden Gate Fields, new energy and water saving materials have been installed and are turning traditions of this 68-year-old horse racing venue on its head. Golden Gate Fields has gone green.
In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/11/14/greening-of-golden-gate-fields/</link>
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		<title>Albany to go to polls Nov. 3 for schools vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Grady-Ayer
an endorser of Albany ballot Measures I and J 
Albany voters will be asked to consider two parcel tax measures on November 3 aimed at saving Albany schools from the state’s worst financial crisis in half a century.  
The Measures I and J would restore less than half the money the state [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/10/22/albany-to-go-to-polls-nov-3-for-schools-vote/</link>
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		<title>Albany &#8220;Dry&#8221; Triathlon coming up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Grady-Ayer 
So what if there’s no pool?  Organizers of the second annual Albany Triathlon are not deterred by the lack of a pool.  They’re just calling it the “Dry Triathlon” and it’s coming up this Sunday, Oct. 25.
 The running and biking but hold-the-swimming event will launch from Memorial Field in Albany, with the first wave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/10/20/albany-dry-triathlon-coming-up/</link>
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		<title>Albany Alums to perform for music benefit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[from the Albany Music Fund
When Albany High School 2006 alumni Jonathan Sandberg and Emma Gavenda heard that the disastrous state budget cuts were threatening their alma mater&#8217;s music programs, they did what they do best: planned an evening of beautiful music as a benefit concert to keep the music program alive.
On Saturday, September 12, at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/09/09/albany-alums-to-perform-for-music-benefit/</link>
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		<title>Sound of music fills Albany, thanks to AMF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Grady-Ayer
It has become a right of passage for youngsters in Albany.  When you reach fourth grade you get to pick out an instrument &#8212; shiny saxophones, silvery flutes, etc. - and play in a school band.
It almost didn&#8217;t happen this year.
So this past week, as 9 and 10 year olds in Albany public schools proudly chose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/09/09/sound-of-music-fills-albany-thanks-to-amf/</link>
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		<title>Albany golf tournament a huge success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 Create Your Own 
By Michael Mejia
Out of the gloom and doom of a $115,000 cut in the Albany Athletics annual budget, the Albany Athletic Boosters delivered the Albany “Save Our Sports” golf tournament on a glorious summer afternoon last Friday. One hundred and sixteen golfers descended upon the Tilden Park golf course in prime weather [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/08/28/albany-golf-tournament-a-huge-success/</link>
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		<title>Police Activities League awards scholarship</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By  Peggy McQuaid
Albany Police Activities League
The Albany Police Activities League has chosen Yesenia Vasquez as their 2009 scholarship winner.  Ms. Vasquez graduated from MacGregor High School in June 2009 where she stood out both as a top student and an outstanding contributor to the Albany community, the organization said.  She will begin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/08/19/police-activities-league-awards-scholarship/</link>
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		<title>City looks at dog issues at Albany Waterfront</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Caryl O&#8217;Keefe
Albany waterfront visitors, and those who might be visitors if conditions were different, will have a chance soon to offer suggestions concerning dogs on the publicly-owned 88 acres at the waterfront.
The City of Albany’s Waterfront Committee (WC) on July 27 voted to ask City staff to provide a report of conditions and issues [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/08/09/city-looks-at-dog-issues-at-albany-waterfront/</link>
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		<title>AUSD votes 4-0 to put parcel tax on ballot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Grady
Across California, local public school districts are picking up a job abandoned by the state by passing measures to adequately fund their schools. In ballot measures using words like “emergency” and “education preservation” 44 California school districts asked voters this year and last to approve parcel taxes rather than make students endure crowded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/08/06/ausd-votes-4-0-to-put-parcel-tax-on-ballot/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Save Our Sports&#8221; event coming up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The athletes at Albany High School are just not going to let Arnold Schwarzenegger and state legislators take away their bats and balls, championships and opportunities to compete.
Instead, coaches, athletes and parents have organized “Save our Sports” – a massive fundraising tournament and auction they hope will raise enough money to let AHS continue its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/08/04/save-our-sports-event-coming-up/</link>
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		<title>Citizen Journalism Anyone?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A proposal for news gathering on Albany Today
Dear Albany Today reader:
Albany received an incredible gift when UC graduate student Linjun Fan decided to set up a news blog about this community for her journalism degree master&#8217;s project. AlbanyToday.org became a vehicle for residents to learn about local issues and events. But, alas, Linjun has completed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/07/17/citizen-journalism-anyone/</link>
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		<title>Letter from Albany resident on green living</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Catherine Sutton
Dear fellow Albany residents,
I want to invite you to join me on a very important project, to start a &#8220;Transition Albany Initiative.&#8221;
When I was in England this Spring I saw a premier of the movie Age of Stupid and vowed to put my best energy this year into moving as many people as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/07/11/letter-from-albany-resident-on-green-living/</link>
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		<title>Albany joins East Bay Green Corridor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Grady
 The City of Albany has joined the East Bay Green Corridor Partnership, which should open the way for Albany to participate in the green jobs creation and green business recruitment that its neighboring cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville and Richmond pursue.
 Joining should also help Albany to benefit from $76 million in federal Stimulus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/07/08/albany-joins-east-bay-green-corridor/</link>
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