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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>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Article 78]]></category>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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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>Ratners Deal with Russian Oligarch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Ratner and Forest City Enterprises made a deal with Russia’s richest man for the New Jersey Nets and a major Brooklyn project called Atlantic Yards. The project was facing financial difficulties. A Brooklyn community organization, headed by Daniel Goldstein, which has been fighting the development, sent out an email denouncing the deal. The project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Reform Should Go Beyond Corruption Issue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there’s going to be an investigation of the integrity of commercial property appraisals here, we ought to also probe tax reductions awarded to downtown property owners by official County and State of Ohio agents. County Treasurer Jim Rokakis, concerned about the validity of commercial property appraisals because of the corruption charges involving County Auditor [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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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>How Cheap Can You Get?  Pretty Damned Cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roldo Bartimole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 1, 2009&#8230; Rich people HATE to pay taxes. They pinch pennies. They squeeze real hard. If you don’t believe me, this information will convince you. Or nothing will. Here are some of the richest people in Cleveland worried about paying taxes on $17 more of what they consider an unfair tax valuation of their [...]]]></description>
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