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		<title>Children rally to save Pomonok after-school program from shutting down</title>
		<link>http://queenscourier.com/2012/children-rally-to-save-pomonok-after-school-program-from-shutting-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 21:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Yu</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assemblymember Michael Simanowitz]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget cuts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mayor Michael Bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Out-of-School Time Program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pomonok]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pomonok Center at the Queens Community House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheena Sukhraj]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Children, parents and politicians rallied recently against the closing of after-school programs at the Pomonok Center at the Queens Community House. The center offers a free after-school program for children from grades kindergarten to sixth that includes homework help, arts and crafts, fitness, character development and team-building games. “I worry that without such a program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6th District candidates debate hot-button issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 19:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Chan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Robert Mittman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evergreen Chou]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flushing Library]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MinKwon Center for Community Action]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The six 6th District congressional candidates mildly duked it out for the first time during a forum in Flushing — addressing hot-button city, state and national issues, like plans to fix the flailing economy and stances on immigration reform. The hopefuls — Green Party’s Evergreen Chou, Democratic primary runners Councilmember Elizabeth Crowley, Assemblymember Rory Lancman, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chancellor Dennis Walcott speaks about Turnaround, special ed reform at forum</title>
		<link>http://queenscourier.com/2012/chancellor-dennis-walcott-speaks-about-turnaround-special-ed-reform-at-forum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexa Altman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education & Kids]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chancellor Dennis Walcott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[special education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Turnaround]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Concerned parents spoke out about special education reform, set to sweep the city this fall, at a recent Community Education Council 27 forum featuring Department of Education (DOE) Chancellor Dennis Walcott. While the hot topic dominated most of the evening’s conversation at M.S. 137 in Ozone Park, parents, teachers and administrators inquired about a gamut [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dee Richard, community newspaper icon, dead at 86</title>
		<link>http://queenscourier.com/2012/longtime-timesledger-columnist-dee-richard-dead-at-86/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 16:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Queens Courier Staff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dee Richard, longtime columnist for the TimesLedger Newspapers, died Tuesday afternoon, May 22 in her Beechhurst home. Richard was widely known for her “Dishing with Dee” column. Her last column and photo page were submitted on Monday, the newspaper wrote. “When she wrote something it was the truth,” said her husband, James Darmos. She succumbed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assemblymember Rory Lancman outlines plan to fight overdevelopment</title>
		<link>http://queenscourier.com/2012/assemblymember-rory-lancman-outlines-plan-to-fight-overdevelopment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 15:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melissa Chan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[6th Congressional District]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Assemblymember Rory Lancman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HELP Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homes and Essential Landmarks Preservation Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assemblymember Rory Lancman outlined a comprehensive plan he designed to combat overdevelopment and said he would push the bill at a federal level if elected to Congress. The four-part Homes and Essential Landmarks Preservation (HELP) Act — introduced by Lancman, who is running for Congress in the 6th District — focuses on extending tax credits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wounded Warrior won&#8217;t let injuries define him</title>
		<link>http://queenscourier.com/2012/wounded-warrior-wont-let-injuries-define-him/</link>
		<comments>http://queenscourier.com/2012/wounded-warrior-wont-let-injuries-define-him/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 14:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexa Altman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Post Traumatic Stress Disorder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PTSD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Timothy Strobel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warrior Transition Unit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wounded Warriors Project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Army Corporal Timothy Strobel returned home from active duty, he felt out of place, ineffectual and on edge. Suffering injuries to his brain, leg and back were only the physical damages from life overseas. The emotional wounds ran deeper. After a year-long stint as a senior medic in Schweinfurt, Germany from 2005 to 2006, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queens&#8217; Morning Roundup</title>
		<link>http://queenscourier.com/2012/queens-morning-roundup-5/</link>
		<comments>http://queenscourier.com/2012/queens-morning-roundup-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 09:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam La Guerre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[114th Precinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2 chainz]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Blind woman's wallet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brass knuckles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gambino family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor Andrew Cuomo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jon Gotti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LaGuardia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lucas Duda]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pirates]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queens Boulevard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[queens dwi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queens theft]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[R.A. Dickey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State to replace NYRA]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[steroids]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; John Gotti grandson busted with a stash of steroids The grandson of John (Teflon Don) Gotti was busted with a stash of steroids in Queens on Tuesday, police sources told the Daily News. A team of narcotics cops collared 18-year-old John Gotti — namesake of the notorious Gambino crime family boss — at a house [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Injunction denied, new district lines are final</title>
		<link>http://queenscourier.com/2012/injunction-denied-new-district-lines-are-final/</link>
		<comments>http://queenscourier.com/2012/injunction-denied-new-district-lines-are-final/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 22:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Pantelidis</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Assembly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Senate Campaign Committee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[district lines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DSCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LATFOR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legislative map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redistricting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Following the failure of a preliminary injunction against the state legislative map, no pencils can erase and redraw district lines. The injunction, which was requested by Democrats, was recently rejected by a judge – finalizing the lines for the upcoming State Senate and Assembly elections due to the lack of time remaining for a trial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Queens sites lose out on Partners in Preservation funds</title>
		<link>http://queenscourier.com/2012/queens-sites-lose-out-on-partners-in-preservation-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://queenscourier.com/2012/queens-sites-lose-out-on-partners-in-preservation-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 18:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Liam La Guerre</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Top Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Astoria Park’s Pool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flushing Meadows-Corona Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flushing Town Hall building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Armstrong House Museum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partners is Preservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rocket Thrower sculpture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Queens County Farm Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Queens landmarks and top sites missed out on a piece of the pie. The committee for the Partners in Preservation, a city-wide contest aimed at disseminating $3 million of financial support to protect significant sites, will award two sites in Brooklyn and two in the Bronx based on voters support out of 40 sites in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waging war on graffiti in Queens</title>
		<link>http://queenscourier.com/2012/waging-war-on-graffiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 17:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toni Cimino</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[South]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Top Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[102nd Precinct]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Graffiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[graffiti clean up]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Bowne High School Air Force Junior ROTC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Queens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vandalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Graffiti be gone. Rollers in hand, enthusiastic community members, officers of the 102nd Precinct and some very civic-minded kids gathered on sunny Sunday, May 20 to help erase vandalism. Members of the John Bowne High School Air Force Junior ROTC, 102nd Precinct Explorers, Richmond Hill Block Association and Community Emergency Response Team tackled various locations, [...]]]></description>
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