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	<title>Arizona Capitol Times &#187; Focus</title>
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	<description>Your Inside Track to Arizona Politics</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>GITA director uses hands-on approach to streamline state’s infrastructure &#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/11/20/gita-director-uses-hands-on-approach-to-streamline-state%e2%80%99s-infrastructure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Utacia Krol</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology Nov. 2009]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Chad Kirkpatrick]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[streamline government operations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Chad Kirkpatrick's office, located on the top floor of the Arizona Department of Administration's building, has a near-perfect view of the Copper Dome.

He also has a clear view of his goal: to make government more cost- effective, efficient and more responsive to its citizens by using technology to streamline basic operations.]]></description>
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		<title>A Tempe company thinks it has a revolutionary car concept, but will the public buy it?&#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/11/20/a-tempe-company-thinks-it-has-a-revolutionary-car-concept-but-will-the-public-buy-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvador Rodriguez</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology Nov. 2009]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[75 miles per gallon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Department of Commerce]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[concept car]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Elio Motors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[job creation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tim James]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A startup Tempe motor company is hoping to turn their lime-green, "spunky little ride" into the 21st century version of the Volkswagen Beetle.

Since August 2008, Elio Motors has been working on a cockpit-shaped, three-wheeled vehicle that seats two people and is the size of a small compact car.]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona law professor discusses water challenges &#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/11/06/arizona-law-professor-discusses-water-challenges/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/11/06/arizona-law-professor-discusses-water-challenges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dolan Media Newswires</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Latest News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Law Firms &amp; Legal Affairs Nov. 2009]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[water issues]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Robert Glennon]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[University of Arizona]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[water use]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OKLAHMOMA CITY - Americans are spoiled, says University of Arizona law professor Robert Glennon.

"We have no sense of the value of water," he told the 30th Annual Oklahoma Governor's Water Conference on Nov. 3 in Midwest City, Okla.]]></description>
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		<title>High-tech tools: Graphics, models help attorneys make their case &#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/11/06/high-tech-tools-graphics-models-help-attorneys-make-their-case/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/11/06/high-tech-tools-graphics-models-help-attorneys-make-their-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Coates</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Latest News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Law Firms &amp; Legal Affairs Nov. 2009]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[courts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[law enforcement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[courtroom exhibits]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[David Kenner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Graphic Law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Principal Animation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first-person shooter animation recreated a showdown at a Sioux Falls, S.D., parking lot. But this was no video game. It was what Hells Angels' Chad Wilson saw when he confronted at least a half-dozen members of a rival motorcycle gang in 2006 and shot five of them with a .40-caliber handgun.]]></description>
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		<title>State Barred? Lack of court wins doesn&#8217;t deter Mesa man&#8217;s quest&#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/11/06/state-barred-lack-of-court-wins-doesnt-deter-mesa-mans-quest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Martin</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Latest News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Law Firms &amp; Legal Affairs Nov. 2009]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[agencies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[courts]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Schaack]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[George Papa]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lawyer discipline]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[State Bar of Arizona]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The lawyer discipline program of the State Bar of Arizona often proves the last resort for people who believe that they have been wronged either by the actions of their own attorneys or by opposing counsel.

Every year the State Bar receives more than 4,000 complaints against its member attorneys, with the majority of the allegations dismissed without referral for further investigation after review by Bar counsel.]]></description>
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		<title>Coming soon – the true ‘corporate’ law firm?</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/11/06/coming-soon-%e2%80%93-the-true-%e2%80%98corporate%e2%80%99-law-firm/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/11/06/coming-soon-%e2%80%93-the-true-%e2%80%98corporate%e2%80%99-law-firm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Opinion</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Commentary]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Law Firms &amp; Legal Affairs Nov. 2009]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[law firms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Events of the past year have created a general belief that the traditional large law firm model is broken.

The question is how to fix it.]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona&#8217;s leading ladies&#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/11/01/arizonas-leading-ladies/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/11/01/arizonas-leading-ladies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Salvador Rodriguez</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arizona history]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Latest News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Women in Public Policy Oct. 2009]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[legislature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Federation of Republican Women]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arizona governors]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Legislature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Opinion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Merrill]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Center for American Women and Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cyndi Collins]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dana Kennedy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Emerge Arizona]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jan Brewer]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jane Dee Hull]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Janet Napolitano]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rose Mofford]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://azcapitoltimes.com/?p=16091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Kurtenbach recalls Janet Napolitano's election over Matt Salmon for governor in 2002. He remembers seeing her inauguration speech on TV when he was 13 and seeing her leave for Washington D.C. earlier this year.

However, one thing the 18-year-old political science major at Arizona State University doesn't remember, is a man serving as Arizona's governor.]]></description>
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		<title>Group educates, encourages and advocates for women business owners&#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/10/30/group-educates-encourages-and-advocates-for-women-business-owners/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/10/30/group-educates-encourages-and-advocates-for-women-business-owners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Tackett</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Latest News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Women in Public Policy Oct. 2009]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Linda Ruisinger]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Loretta Love Huff]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[luncheons]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[mentoring]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[NAWBO]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[women business owners]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Women's Business Ownership Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Center for Women's Business Research reports that 10.1 million business firms in the United States are owned by women, employing more than 13 million people and generating $1.9 trillion in sales.

Women-owned ventures also account for 40 percent of all privately owned firms.]]></description>
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		<title>ASU professor brings health care expertise to reform effort&#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/10/30/asu-professor-brings-health-care-expertise-to-reform-effort/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/10/30/asu-professor-brings-health-care-expertise-to-reform-effort/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Miller</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Women in Public Policy Oct. 2009]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Anna Tovar]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arizona State University]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kyrsten Sinema]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marjorie Baldwin]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Master of Public Health program]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[National Institute of Mental Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, ASU professor Marjorie Baldwin contributed to the national debate regarding health care reform, advocating incremental changes and warning against rushing into a broad, public health care system that covers everybody.]]></description>
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		<title>Getting state there from here: Arizonans agree on one solution&#160;</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/10/23/getting-state-there-from-here-arizonans-agree-on-one-solution/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2009/10/23/getting-state-there-from-here-arizonans-agree-on-one-solution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Debra Utacia Krol</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Latest News]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Transportation Oct. 2009]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[agencies]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[legislation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[legislature]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Department of Transportation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Arizona Town Hall]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Building a Quality Arizona]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Meibeck]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jennifer Toth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Upchurch]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Local Initiatives Support Corporation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tara Jackson]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[transportation modes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reliable, reasonably priced transportation options are vital, especially in a state where the car is king, public transportation is severely limited, fuel prices are in continual flux, the number of elderly residents is rising rapidly and commodities must be imported by truck, train, pipeline or plane.]]></description>
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