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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>An open letter on health care to Sens. McCain and Kyl</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/03/05/an-open-letter-on-health-care-to-sens-mccain-and-kyl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here we go again. I've lost track of what round this is over health care, but it doesn't change the fact that the federal government cannot "mandate" American citizens to purchase health care coverage.]]></description>
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		<title>Tougher penalties needed for pedophiles</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/03/05/tougher-penalties-needed-for-pedophiles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a local political activist. I brought up the issue of child endangerment to the local press during the school override election for Apache Junction Unified School District. I also raised the issue during city council meetings and in the blogs.]]></description>
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		<title>Third parties must print public notices</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/03/05/third-parties-must-print-public-notices/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/03/05/third-parties-must-print-public-notices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[H2244 was appropriately defeated because, by definition, removing print publication of public notices defeats the very purpose of public publication of the notices. The intention is to provide as broad a public notice to the citizens as is economically and reasonably feasible without preferring, by the method of publication, which group should get the information while intentionally not providing notice to other citizens.]]></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>Put Arizona prisoners to work on cleaning duty</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/19/put-arizona-prisoners-to-work-on-cleaning-duty/</link>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/19/put-arizona-prisoners-to-work-on-cleaning-duty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I toured some our neighborhoods recently, and you know what I saw?

Feral cats everywhere. Does no one in this town care that these animals are potential reservoirs of diseases like rabies that might affect our children? ]]></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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		<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>35-page pot initiative too complex</title>
		<link>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/12/35-page-pot-initiative-too-complex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who thinks a 35-page law is a good idea needs a brain scan.

With so many lawyer words in one place, the mischief the marijuana- regulation law is bound to do will be enormous and filled with stupidity.

I would never vote for any initiative so complex that I cannot readily understand it.]]></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>
		<comments>http://azcapitoltimes.com/blog/2010/02/12/adoption-bill-doesn%e2%80%99t-exclude-single-adults/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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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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		<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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