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	<title>Welcome to Our Time Press</title>
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		<title>Gov. Paterson Impresses Diverse Audience at Brooklyn Town Hall Meeting: Commands Moment, Impactful on State Budget Crisis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A confident Governor Paterson was well-received at a Town Hall meeting about the New York State budget at Brooklyn&#8217;s Borough Hall on Monday and no one can accuse him of sugar-coating the economic message.   Paterson began with a brief historical analysis of how governments have changed the names of financial problems from Poland&#8217;s Crisis of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtimepress.com/2010/03/12/gov-paterson-impresses-diverse-audience-at-brooklyn-town-hall-meeting-commands-moment-impactful-on-state-budget-crisis/</link>
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		<title>Giving Incarcerated Parents A Fighting Chance To Reunite With Their Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sen.Montgomery,Assemblyman Aubry &#38; Children and Families Commissioner join together to protect families from being separated.
Lawmakers and criminal justice reform advocates joined together at the State Capitol last week to garner support for legislation (S.2233/A.5462-A) that will allow foster care agencies the discretion to delay filing papers to terminate the parental rights of parents who are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtimepress.com/2010/03/05/giving-incarcerated-parents-a-fighting-chance-to-reunite-with-their-children/</link>
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		<title>Coalition Campaigns to End Prison-Based Gerrymandering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Eric T. Schneiderman and Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries joined forces with a statewide coalition today to announce a new organizing campaign plan to end prison-based gerrymandering in New York State before the 2010 Census.
The coalition&#8217;s goal is to organize across the state to pass Senator Schneiderman&#8217;s bill that would require New York State to count [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtimepress.com/2010/03/05/coalition-campaigns-to-end-prison-based-gerrymandering/</link>
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		<title>Everything But the Moan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We once visited a stockyard in Sioux City Iowa and spoke to some of the cattlemen there.  They said that when it came to making money from a cow, they use &#8220;Everything but the moo.&#8221;  That this is pretty much the attitude of upstate politicians towards the prisoners held in their districts, becomes apparent in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtimepress.com/2010/03/05/everything-but-the-moan/</link>
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		<title>Call Them Phenomenal, THESE DAUGHTERS of  TUBMAN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Freedom or die a slave!,&#8221; declared  Harriet Tubman (1819/20-1913) who freed herself and 300 others from enslavement in the mid-19th century.  Tubman&#8217;s legacy resounds today in the lives of heirs who move unrestricted and make choices with few constraints. 
Call them daughters, sisters, wives, mothers, aunts, educators, nurses, doctors, entrepreneurs, environmentalists, bakers, filmmakers, artists, chefs, librarians, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtimepress.com/2010/03/05/call-them-phenomenal-these-daughters-of-tubman/</link>
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		<title>View From Here: Governor Paterson on the Edge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Governor David Paterson&#8217;s problems are entirely of his own making.   Interfering with a woman protecting herself from a physical abuser?   It was both an arrogance of power and a devaluing of women.  It was also thoughtless, because his actions were just the open opportunity for any number of forces in the state to pounce on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtimepress.com/2010/03/05/governor-paterson-on-the-edge/</link>
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		<title>Where to Count Prisoners Leads Concerns at Congressional Hearing on Census</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Issue Impact Redistricting and Federal Funds
Where prisoners are counted as living determines both electoral districts as well as how many federal dollars are available for everything from job creation to food stamps and other human needs.  With 75% of prisoners in upstate New York coming from seven zip codes in New York City, it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtimepress.com/2010/02/26/where-to-count-prisoners-leads-concerns-at-congressional-hearing-on-census/</link>
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		<title>Africans in the Americas-Parts 1 &amp; 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Historian John Henrik Clarke was fond of saying, &#8220;History is a clock that people use to tell their political and cultural time of day.&#8221;  As history is now striking the millennium, it is as good a time as ever to take a brief look at Africans in the Americas during the past three millennia.
The first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtimepress.com/2010/02/20/africans-in-the-americas-parts-1-2/</link>
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		<title>Providence House Proposed 60% Transitional Complex on Kosciuszko Raises Question of &#8220;Social&#8221; Service Saturation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are service providers overdosing Bedford-Stuyvesant with affordable housing we can&#8217;t afford to have anymore? A nonprofit organization founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph has provided transitional and permanent housing for 30 years, twenty-seven of them in Community Board 3.  Now they want to create affordable/supportive apartments at 273-277 Kosciusko, including 26 apartments for formerly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtimepress.com/2010/02/20/providence-house-proposed-60-transitional-complex-on-kosciuszko-raises-question-of-social-service-saturation/</link>
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		<title>MacDonough Street Update,Department of Buildings: &#8220;Stay Granted Through March 3&#8243;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Markowitz: Lauds Partnerships that Preserve Neighborhoods
Late yesterday afternoon, the Department of Buildings officially reported that &#8220;The stay on demolition has been extended to Wednesday, March 3. DOB has reviewed and approved plans to shore 329 and 331 McDonough Street to further stabilize them. Work to carry out these plans has commenced. The buildings are being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ourtimepress.com/2010/02/20/macdonough-street-updatedepartment-of-buildings-stay-granted-through-march-3/</link>
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