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	<title>Brooklyn&#039;s Neighborhood Blog</title>
	<link>http://www.change35.com</link>
	<description>Get to know Brooklyn from those who are passionate about Brooklyn</description>
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		<title>Image is Everything!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[State Senator Eric Adams is urging young people, in particular young black men to “Stop the Sag.”  The campaign is meant to get young black men to raise their pants up and stop sagging.  To this end, Senator Adams, a former police officer, has committed $20,000 of his member item for billboards and online advertisement [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.change35.com/2010/03/28/image-is-everything/</link>
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		<title>WORKING IN THE “FAB’s” SHADOWS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The face of the Fulton Street BID is poor. Four black men share the face. They sweep Fulton Street in bulgy, baggy, dirty, dark, hooded jumpsuits that say “FAB” in great big bright green letters on the back. That’s what the BID calls itself.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.change35.com/2010/03/26/working-in-the-%e2%80%9cfab%e2%80%99s%e2%80%9d-shadows/</link>
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		<title>Congrats to President Obama!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama and Speaker Pelosi just accomplished what no other President or Speaker has been able to accomplish: Pass Health Care Reform.
Teddy Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush all failed at health care reform.   For one hundred years we&#8217;ve told poor and desperate people, &#8220;Sorry, you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.change35.com/2010/03/23/congrats-to-president-obama/</link>
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		<title>In Defense of Fare-Beaters:</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday it was reported that the number of MTA fare-beaters has for a long time been under estimated.  The estimated revenue lost as a result of fare-beaters jumped from $7 million to a whopping $27 million.  According to the report, the old system of calculating the number of fare-beaters was woefully under-estimating the true scale [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.change35.com/2010/03/17/in-defense-of-fare-beaters/</link>
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		<title>Atlantic Yards: Indigination from Tish James</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is a sad day in Brooklyn when basketball rules over affordable housing, schools, playgrounds, youth centers, libraries, and MetroCards for students.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.change35.com/2010/03/15/atlantic-yards-indigination-from-tish-james/</link>
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		<title>FAB: 21 BLOCKS in 21 DAYS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fulton Area Business alliance (formerly known as Fulton Street Bid) is sponsoring a "21 BLOCKS in 21 DAYS" street tour as an effort to market FAB merchants.  ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.change35.com/2010/03/11/fab-21-blocks-in-21-days/</link>
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		<title>Pet Groomer Under Attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the elections were over in November, Paws-n-Claws received a surprise visit by Agent Victor Thomas from the Department of Sanitation to present a bill in the amount of $8,700 for his four-month collection of tickets to Paws-n-Claws for wrongful promotion.   Payable immediately.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.change35.com/2010/03/08/pet-groomer-under-attack/</link>
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		<title>Test Event</title>
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		<link>http://www.change35.com/2010/03/01/test-event/</link>
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		<title>Chain Email</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have gotten an email chain letter with the subject line “MOST BLACKS DONT READ? feedback now, thanks. ” You may even have gotten it several times. It’s a provocative subject line. What’s more provocative is the title of the supposed article: “THEY ARE STILL OUR SLAVES” – in caps.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.change35.com/2010/02/11/chain-email/</link>
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		<title>The Harleme Miracle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charter Schools are Working!
Below is a great op-ed piece by David Brooks of the New York Times. Although I don’t see eye to eye with Mr. Brooks on most issues, I do agree on this particular issue. It’s incredibly sad that we have politicized the education of our children to the point where educating our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.change35.com/2010/02/01/the-harleme-miracle/</link>
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