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		<title>State deficit means hit to Albany schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Barbara Grady Using Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed state budget with its cuts to education, welfare and child care, the Albany Unified School District figures it is looking at $5.2 million in cuts over two years including $1.2 for the year about to begin, and possibly an end to subsidizies for after-school programs, officials said this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2010/06/17/state-deficit-means-5-million-hit-to-albany-schools/</link>
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		<title>Safeway hopes to rebuild</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara Grady Safeway Inc. has tentative plans to tear down its Albany store and reconstruct one twice the size with a parking lot underneath the building, according to an application to the Albany Planning and Zoning Commission. The grocery chain, whose Solano Avenue store is a mainstay of Albany commerce and the only full [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2010/06/09/safeway-hopes-to-rebuild/</link>
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		<title>AHS Jazz Band sent to Lincoln Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Albany High School Jazz Band practices for &#8220;Essentially Ellington&#8221; Video and blog by Barbara Grady There are 18,400 public high schools in the United States and chances are each one has a jazz band. Of them, 1,550 hoped to be invited to this month&#8217;s “Essentially Ellington” High School Jazz Competition &#038; Festival held at Lincoln [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2010/05/24/ahs-jazz-band-sent-to-lincoln-center/</link>
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		<title>Voices to Vision report on Waterfront out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[View Albany Waterfront in a larger map The Albany Waterfront future, as envisioned by Albany residents. Blue markers indicate areas residents want converted to, or preserved as, open space. The area enclosed by the blue line represents the approximate space most residents would allow to be developed to generate tax revenues. By Barbara Grady A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2010/04/14/voices-to-vision-report-on-waterfront-out/</link>
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		<title>Special Coverage: Life in Shantou, China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, I proudly present you here a series of profile stories written by my students — sophomores and juniors learning journalism at Shantou Univeristy, China. You will find the series rich and lively, ranging from profiles of an artist, a dentist, a tailor, a cleaner, to a stone sculptor, a restaurant owner, and a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2010/03/13/special-coverage-from-shantou-china/</link>
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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 called [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 [...]]]></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 her [...]]]></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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://albanytoday.org/2009/08/09/city-looks-at-dog-issues-at-albany-waterfront/</link>
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