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		<title>Support for payday lenders grows where money flows</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the March 5 edition of the <em>Arizona Capitol Times</em>, three of the state's chambers of commerce ran a full-page ad on page 2 supporting the "short-term consumer financing industry," or in English, the payday lenders.]]></description>
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		<title>Day 2: Tracking the special session&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/03/09/day-2-tracking-the-special-session-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The special session continues today as lawmakers try to hammer out a deal on a budget plan that would eliminate the $700 million deficit remaining in the fiscal 2010 budget and another $2.6 billion deficit in the fiscal 2011 budget. <a href="http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/03/09/day-2-tracking-the-special-session-2/"><strong>Click here for updates.</strong></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Keep the public noticed</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/26/keep-the-public-noticed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If public notices were not published in newspapers, the community would not know about hearings, requests for proposals, companies that are forming and other actions by government.]]></description>
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		<title>Western Union settlement a turning point in smuggling war</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/19/western-union-settlement-a-turning-point-in-smuggling-war/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/19/western-union-settlement-a-turning-point-in-smuggling-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terry Goddard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our $94 million settlement with Western Union ranks as one of the most important legal agreements in Arizona's history.]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption bill doesn’t exclude single adults</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/12/adoption-bill-doesn%e2%80%99t-exclude-single-adults/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cathi Herrod]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Feb. 5 edition of the Arizona Capitol Times, the story headlined "Married parents would get preference in Adoptions" stated that H2148 would prohibit the Arizona Department of Economic Security from "approving an adoption by a single adult unless no qualified married couple was available."]]></description>
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		<title>Support for employer sanctions was sarcastic</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/12/support-for-employer-sanctions-was-sarcastic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Prezelski]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a bit of surprise to see that a has-been like me was mentioned in an article in the Arizona Capitol Times (‘I hate this bill and I vote aye', January 25, 2010). I guess there must be very little happening at the Legislature.]]></description>
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		<title>Changes to revenue-sharing system would devastate cities</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/08/changes-to-revenue-sharing-system-would-devastate-cities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If anyone doubts the state's troubled economy is clobbering Arizona's cities and towns, they only have to look in the newspaper. "Phoenix details plan for drastic cutbacks;" "Cities, towns resort to layoffs;" "Falling revenues affect city of Prescott operations."]]></description>
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		<title>Oregon stepped up, so can Arizona</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/05/oregon-stepped-up-so-can-arizona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the face of a crippling national recession that has driven down state revenues by historic proportions, Arizona is not alone in facing stark choices about priorities for our present and our future.]]></description>
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		<title>Arizonans play crucial role in bringing aid to Haiti</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/05/arizonans-play-crucial-role-in-bringing-aid-to-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lt. Meredith Doran peers at her computer monitor at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson and sees the pain of Haiti.]]></description>
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		<title>The Conservative Revolution of 2010</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/05/the-conservative-revolution-of-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jesse Kelly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just think about what conservatives have accomplished in 2010. Not in my wildest dreams could I have thought that a fiscally conservative candidate could be Massachusetts' newest senator.]]></description>
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