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	<title>Baltimore Brew &#187; Fern Shen</title>
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		<title>Tough choices, testy moments at mayor&#8217;s budget&#160;workshop</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2012/02/06/tough-choices-testy-moments-at-mayors-budget-balancing-workshop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Citizens met with budget officials on Saturday to consider the city's challenge to close a $52 million budget shortfall. But some participants questioned the scope of the exercise and asked why developer tax breaks and procurement reforms weren't on the table. ]]></description>
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		<title>In West Baltimore, a funeral for &#8220;The American&#160;Dream&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carrying caskets filled with American flags and small houses, activists decrying banks&#8217; predatory lending practices yesterday held a mock funeral in West Baltimore for &#8220;the American Dream of home ownership.&#8221; In front of a Wells Fargo Bank branch on a stretch of North Ave. pockmarked with vacant row-homes and signs advertising foreclosure auctions, about 75 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyclists rallying to save Mount Royal bike&#160;lane</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2012/02/03/cyclists-rallying-to-save-mount-royal-bike-lane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baltimore cyclists are mounting a petition campaign to save a plan to put a dedicated bike lane on Mount Royal Avenue amid reports that the presidents of University of Baltimore and MICA quietly nixed the idea. Did they? We asked them. And what's the city's position on the controversy? ]]></description>
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		<title>Krasnopoler family pushes for competency tests for Maryland&#160;drivers</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2012/02/01/krasnopoler-family-pushes-for-competency-tests-for-maryland-drivers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 13:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The family of a 20-year-old bicyclist struck and killed by a car driven by an elderly woman wants Maryland to require drivers to pass more than a simple eye test – and they're opposing a bill put in by the Motor Vehicle Administration to extend the license renewal period from five to eight years.]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore artist strikes back at speed&#160;traps</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2012/01/31/baltimore-artist-strikes-back-at-speed-traps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After one too many unpleasant experiences with local speed cameras, Baltimore conceptual artist Julia Kim Smith decided to fight back with the main tool she has at hand: Art with a capital ARRRRRGH! She calls the piece, &#8220;Speed Trap Sign, an installation by you,&#8221; and it&#8217;s basically a warning you can set up for other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cartoonist KAL coming back to The Baltimore&#160;Sun?</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2012/01/28/cartoonist-kal-coming-back-to-the-baltimore-sun/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Veteran editorial cartoonist Kevin &#8220;KAL&#8221; Kallaugher  &#8211; the man who never met a politician&#8217;s dome-y head he couldn&#8217;t make dome-ier &#8211; may be returning to The Baltimore Sun. Rumors have been swirling that Kallaugher has been talking to management about coming back to draw a once-a-week cartoon for the newspaper that employed him for 17 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Kickstarter Campaign by the&#160;numbers</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2012/01/24/our-kickstarter-campaign-by-the-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we conclude The Brew's successful fundraising campaign, we thought we would share some of the data on it. Kickstarter, the crowd-funding platform we used, provides beaucoup metrics. Here are a few of them. Once again, to all of you who supported us, many, many thanks.]]></description>
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		<title>ACLU: police seizure of protesters&#8217; Rec Center sign &#8220;spectacularly&#160;improper&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2012/01/20/aclu-police-seizure-of-protesters-rec-center-sign-spectacularly-improper/</link>
		<comments>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2012/01/20/aclu-police-seizure-of-protesters-rec-center-sign-spectacularly-improper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 04:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ACLU says Baltimore police "should have arrested themselves" today for blocking a protest group that had been walking a city sidewalk. When the cops seized and trashed the group's sign, the lawyer says, they also trashed the First Amendment. He called the planned City Hall protest "quintessential protected speech."]]></description>
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		<title>As Baltimore boots its carousel, other cities showcase&#160;theirs</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2012/01/20/while-baltimore-boots-its-carousel-other-cities-are-showcasing-theirs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the historic carousel in Coney Island was in trouble, the city bought it and made it the anchor of redevelopment, opening next year. Beside the East River, in Brooklyn's trendy DUMBO, a glittering restored carousel just opened in September. In Baltimore, meanwhile, city officials say a century-old carousel is dilapidated, failing to pay its rent and has to go.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Baltimore – and media – booted from public sidewalk near youth jail&#160;site</title>
		<link>http://www.baltimorebrew.com/2012/01/17/occupy-baltimore-and-media-booted-from-public-sidewalk-near-youth-jail-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fern Shen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There were some vivid scenes at yesterday’s Occupy Baltimore protest that Baltimore Police didn't want the media to see. Such as state troopers carrying demonstrators off the site like logs and city crews tearing down a little red schoolhouse where the state wants to build a $100-million teen lock-up. We have the details. ]]></description>
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