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		<title>The Fracking Debate Report &#8212; it was a cracker &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Fracking Debate &#8230; as far as I am concerned &#8230; was the best HVDU event so far. Plenty of Points of Information, plenty of back and forth among Principal Speakers, and a real mind expansion among those attending. It was a first for many reasons &#8212; our first time working with the Rockland County [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HVDU announces &#8211; THE FRACKING DEBATE!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Patrick McGrath 845-915-3159 Dylan Skriloff, Rockland County Times, 845-627-1414 Richard Quinn, Nyack Village Theater, 845-826-2639 The Hudson Valley Debate Union In association with the Rockland County Times and the Hudson Valley Business Journal Presents THE FRACKING DEBATE at the Nyack Village Theater Event to be livestreamed at RocklandWorldRadio.com NYACK, NY (16 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More and exciting stuff to come soon!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings HVDU fans! I am hard at work preparing the next HVDU event, and there will be an announcement shortly. The event will be on a hot topic&#8211;in several senses of &#8220;hot&#8221;&#8211;a new venue, new partners, and the most (potential) audience participation ever for the HVDU. So keep your eyes open and your calendars free.]]></description>
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		<title>Video of the Hyde Park PPACA debate! Hooray!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello HVDU fans! I&#8217;ve just posted the video of the Hyde Park Obamacare debate to YouTube! It came out quite well, even though the audience was a bit smaller than I would have liked. Have a look here:]]></description>
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		<title>The HVDU announces: The Health Care Act Debate at Historic Hyde Park!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE HUDSON VALLEY DEBATE UNION PRESENTS THE HEALTH CARE REFORM ACT DEBATE AT THE HISTORIC ESTATE OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Patrick McGrath 845-915-3159 (land) 845-558-4281 (cell) HYDE PARK, NY (20 May 2011) – The Hudson Valley Debate Union, which brings interactive, face-to-face “Oxford-style” debating to the Hudson Valley and beyond, announces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The HVDU appoints a successor to an important post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello HVDU colleagues! It&#8217;s been a trying few months here at HVDU. I tried very hard to set up two debates during the runup to the elections that took place today. One was to be a state legislature candidates event, the other a Congressional candidates event. To make a long story very short, both events [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tory Virginian&#8217;s View of the Fateful Events of July 1776</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the historic Capitol Building at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia &#8212; a Tory makes his views know to some visitors to the Virginia Capitol&#8217;s House of Burgesses, Council Room, and General Courtroom. The Tory is not so sure that this Declaration of Independence that the Virginians and the other States in Congress assembled in Philadelphia have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The HVDU founder checks out our country&#8217;s roots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahoy there, HVDU fans! Your HVDU founder is preparing for the Fall 2010 HVDU debate season, and part of that preparation was a desire to reach back to the roots of debate in this country. So I decided to go (along with my New Lovely Bride) to Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia. I&#8217;ve been wanting to go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Official mascot of the HVDU enjoys a day in the park</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just to keep everybody happy in the summer, we now have a video of the HVDU official mascot, Anteyka the Min Pin, up on YouTube: Hope you like it! More HVDU news soon!]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Debate Videos &#8212; they&#8217;re here!  Yay!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, everybody. I know you&#8217;ve been screaming for them. Now, they&#8217;re here, finally. It took a while to get these up, thanks to painfully slow YouTube uploading times, but we now can present &#8212; The Confidence in The Obama Administration Debate Videos! Here they are, in the order they occurred: Opening: Steve Pappas: Jim Coleman: [...]]]></description>
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