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		<title>Council campaigns take a nasty turn</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/hazlehurst/2013/03/04/council-campaigns-take-a-nasty-turn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 22:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hazlehurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than a month to go until the ballots are counted and the winners declared – and the race for City Council is getting nasty. Local political consultant Patrick Davis sent this letter to all council candidates as well as the three incumbent at-large council members who are not up for election during this cycle. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council campaigns &#8211; where there&#8217;s smoke, there&#8217;s smoke!</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/hazlehurst/2013/02/18/council-campaigns-where-theres-smoke-theres-smoke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 16:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hazlehurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mid-February campaign finance reports are in and given that ballots for the April 2 election will be mailed out in three weeks, they’re pretty illuminating. Reports cover a two-week period, typically between Jan. 31 and Feb. 15. We’ll lead off with District 3, where former council member Tom Gallagher is opposing incumbent at-large councilor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City must work to ignore those donkeys of delusion</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/hazlehurst/2013/02/07/city-must-work-to-ignore-those-donkeys-of-delusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hazlehurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All cities face challenges at some point in their history. Fire destroyed much of San Francisco, Katrina drowned New Orleans and a 1900 hurricane leveled Galveston. War ravaged Beirut, Dresden and St Petersburg. The Black Plague decimated London, and more than a thousand famines have swept through Chinese cities. We dread the four horsemen of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zen and the Art of Website Maintenance</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/hazlehurst/2013/01/31/zen-and-the-art-of-website-maintenance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 16:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hazlehurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Go to The Gazette’s website. Click the local news link on the top left of the home page. Scroll down to Colorado Government News, and this is what you get. I added the datelines – all four stories came from the Associated Press. Colorado Government News • In D.C., a call for rebirth amid claims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Candidates, formidable or not, get a jump on incumbents</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/hazlehurst/2013/01/31/candidates-formidable-or-not-get-a-jump-on-incumbents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 15:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hazlehurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too bad, Angela Dougan! My condolences, Tim Leigh! Life is cruel, Bernie Herpin and Brandy Williams! You may all have hoped for the unalloyed happiness that comes with an uncontested City Council race. But the fates have decreed otherwise, and it looks as if voters in all six districts will be able to choose among [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The arithmetically challenged Tim Leigh</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/hazlehurst/2013/01/30/the-arithmetically-challenged-tim-leigh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Gillentine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Leigh’s pithy, well-written weekly market reports always make interesting reading. This week’s was even more interesting than usual, because of two glaring howlers. Here’s an excerpt, with the howlers in bold. “The CSU leadership, including the previous board, has made several questionable policy decisions: &#160; 1. The disastrous Neumann Scrubber policy where CSU became [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council: Diary of a day filled with angst, not actions</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/hazlehurst/2013/01/24/council-diary-of-a-day-filled-with-angst-not-actions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hazlehurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday afternoon, our quarrelsome and divided City Council took the stage once more. It’s been a short and strange trip, one which will end in April when as many as six current members may be replaced in the biennial city elections. That there will be changes is a certainty — and that the changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What jerks Bach’s chain? Let’s count the ways</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/hazlehurst/2013/01/17/what-jerks-bachs-chain-lets-count-the-ways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 18:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hazlehurst</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mayor Bach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Bach]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If I were Mayor Steve Bach, I’d be mad, mad, mad! And here’s who I’d be mad at: I’m mad at the media! I have a contentious meeting with a few community leaders who volunteered their time to work on a stormwater task force. After the meeting, all hell breaks loose. It appears that I’ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humane Society does its job, but is that really enough?</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/hazlehurst/2013/01/17/humane-society-does-its-job-but-is-that-really-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hazlehurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you do when unforeseen circumstances force you to give up a beloved pet? Maybe you or your spouse are about to be deployed, or you’re moving to an apartment complex that doesn’t allow dogs, or you have a new baby on the way, or your new significant other is severely allergic to cats. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We’re a Kmart town with Saks Fifth Avenue politics</title>
		<link>http://csbj.com/hazlehurst/2013/01/04/were-a-kmart-town-with-saks-fifth-avenue-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 16:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hazlehurst</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every statehouse, every office of the federal government. &#8230; In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, [...]]]></description>
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