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		<title>Atlantic Yards: Fight Worth Fighting is a Fight Worth Fighting to the Very End</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 24, 2010&#8230; The powerful Cleveland Ratner family has finally pushed the Daniel Goldstein family out of its Brooklyn, N. Y. home. But they haven’t shut him up. And it cost them $3 million, not the $500,000 deal first offered. Goldstein says that he took the offer without a pledge to keep quiet about it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dodger Move &amp; Ratner Arrival&#8230; Which Worse, Brooklyn?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[March 1, 2010&#8230; The departure of the Brooklyn Dodgers was a blow to the people of Brooklyn, N.Y. but the arrival of a Ratner might be more devastating to Brooklyn citizens. Here’s why: Judge Grants New York State Right to Steal Homes By Eminent Domain for Bruce Ratner&#8217;s Atlantic Yards Boondoggle Outstanding Legal Issues Still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sam Miller is the Funniest Man in Town</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 21, 2010&#8230; My best laugh on a trip out West for warm air came when I read online Sam Miller’s tribute to himself as part of Cleveland Magazine’s take on Cleveland’s most powerful people. Sam’s powerfully funny. He may have lost a few steps at 88 years old but he’s still got the great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forest City Interests a Target in New York?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 6, 2010&#8230; Not named or indicted. Sound familiar? Keeping up with Forest City could be a full-time job. Forest City Ratner’s Atlantic Yards watchdogs are keeping a sharp eye on the Cleveland firm’s cousin in Brooklyn and New York. They know how to play politics as anyone from Cleveland can attest. Here’s a report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Damage by Doing What Isn&#8217;t Needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a conversation about Cleveland’s past and present problems a friend asked me the other night – what about solutions?  Do you have any solutions? It is a question I’ve been asked before. No, I don’t have any solutions. I’m not looking for solutions. I don’t believe it’s my job to come up with such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jacobs-Ratner Fight Continues with Issue 3 Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 27, 2009&#8230; Damian Guevara in the Cleveland Scene last week had a take on the Issue 3 that has been neglected by most, including me, but touches on a damaging game among Cleveland developers. They vie among themselves for advantage no matter what the cost to community. It has cost us plenty over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ritz-Carlton Asks for Two More Tax Reductions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 4, 2009&#8230; Signs continue to suggest disaster for local government as property taxes are ready to tumble. Tower City folk are seeking more reductions in the property value of the Ritz-Carlton. The downtown luxury hotel had enjoyed a 20-year, 100% tax abatement. Back on the tax rolls it now asks for reductions via a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forest City Walloped by New York Times Critic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 10, 2009&#8230; Cleveland’s Forest City developers get walloped by New York Times architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff for the design of a new basketball arena in Brooklyn N. Y. “A colossal, spiritless box,” he writes. Ouroussoff writes that the arena design for the Nets team would make it “fit more comfortably in a cornfield than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forest City Has Its Problems in Brooklyn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 13:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 8, 2009&#8230; Forest City Enterprises is taking a beating in Brooklyn. Brooklyn, N. Y. that is. Read how Forest City dumped architect Frank Gehry for Ellerby Becket, a Minnesota firm. The article notes that Ellerby Becket has a “numbing track record of uninspired sport complexes” to its credit. Of course, Ellerby Becket designed Gund [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brent Larkin Bows Out as Plain Dealer Editorial Boss</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 1, 2009&#8230; Brent Larkin is receiving some deserved attention as he leaves one of the most powerful positions in our city – the Plain Dealer editorial page director. We can’t allow him to leave the stage so easily. Larkin – likable and knowledgeable – has been boss of the editorial page since the early [...]]]></description>
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