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 		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[CHAREN: Democratic mask slips on Israel]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Were you shocked when at least 50 percent of the delegates to the Democratic Convention appeared to vote “nay” on recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and reinserting God into the platform? Admittedly, it was high drama — a truly...]]></description>
			
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[BY: MONA CHAREN]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[GOOD NEWS:  Talent Show finalists]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Permian Basin Fair & Exposition Talent Show finalists will get to compete at 7 p.m. Sept. 15 at the Ector County Coliseum. More than $1,500 in prizes will be awarded. The grand-prize winner will receive $500 and a trophy. First-place winners in...]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[GOOD NEWS: REEL THANX]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Members of American Legion Post 430 of Odessa formed a cooking team to prepare the meals for the Wounded Warrior Reel Thanx project over the Aug. 16-9 weekend in Del Rio. The event brings wounded veterans from various posts, camps and stations of the...]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[TEXAS VIEW: Time do be done with ID]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[hen a federal court blocked Texas’ voter ID law, the three-judge panel didn't mince words. The state's evidence that the law doesn't discriminate against minorities, it said, was “unpersuasive, invalid, or both.”
That assessment sounded eerily...]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[COLLEGE SOCCER: Lady Falcons back home]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The UTPB women’s soccer team returns to the Permian Basin in search of its first win of the season when it plays at 6 tonight against future Heartland Conference opponent McMurry at Falcon Field.
The Lady Falcons (0-3) have been outscored 5-1 at...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:21:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[BLOTTER: Sept. 11, 2012]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The following is a list of felony criminal activities reported to the police. Numbered addresses of locations where crimes occur are rounded to the nearest hundred block.
BURGLARY OF A BUILDING
>> 7-Eleven, 3660 W. Eighth St., reported someone took...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:26:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Man arrested, charged with robbery at Boost Mobile store]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[An Odessa man was arrested and charged with robbery after being accused of demanding money from a mobile phone store after a spat with the manager.
According to an Odessa Police Department news release, 29-year-old Hugo Herman Moolenaar Jr. demanded...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:23:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Second person dies from injuries in Saturday wreck]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A second person died Sunday from injuries suffered during a Saturday car wreck that already claimed a life.
Melissa Ann Alvarado, 30, died from her injuries Sunday after a head-on collision early Saturday morning on North West Loop 338 killer her...]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Grandfalls double homicide suspect in jail]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The man accused of shooting two people to death and injuring another person in Grandfalls last week was released from the hospital Sunday and was being held in the Ward County Jail.
Rodney Wayne Crawford, 28, is accused of shooting 31-year-old...]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Autopsy scheduled for found body]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[An autopsy has been scheduled Thursday for the body of a woman found at 2 Opal Circle this weekend. Police have said the death is not being considered a homicide.
Melissa Crowe, a forensic death investigator with the Ector County Medical Examiner’s...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 21:17:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[County budget, tax rate a go]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Ector County Commissioners took their final vote Monday on the county’s budget for the beginning of the upcoming fiscal year, and also approved the tax rate.Starting Oct. 1, the county will operate on a $57,161,822 budget that has 4 percent pay...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:27:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[BY NATHANIEL MILLER]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[OA website changes]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Odessa American website will see some changes Tuesday as it transitions to a content management system by TownNews.com.The new website is scheduled to go live Tuesday at about 3 p.m. and, due to the transition, faulty links and technological...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:09:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[LETTER: New DVD has agenda of its own]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Were you shocked when at least 50 percent of the delegates to the Democratic Convention appeared to vote “nay” on recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and reinserting God into the platform? Admittedly, it was high drama — a truly...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:51:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[McNeil: zoning, water top concerns]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A fixture of Odessa’s religious community for more than 30 years, the Rev. Roger McNeil is now setting his sights on the Odessa City Council District 1 seat. 
McNeil made a last minute filing for candidacy on Aug. 20, the filing deadline, hoping to...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:59:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[BY LYXAN TOLEDANES]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[ECISD schools balance enrollment challenges]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[As the Ector County Independent School District’s record enrollment continues to increase, classroom crowding and school capacity are becoming an even larger challenge schools are learning to address.This year the district has more than 29,500...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 09:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[BY CAYLOR BALLINGER]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[GOOD NEWS: child protection court]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A swearing-in ceremony took place on Aug. 28 in the courtroom of Judge Sylvia Chavez’s child protection court. CASA is a national volunteer movement which allows trained volunteers to act as a ‘voice in court’ for abused and neglected children....]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[GOOD NEWS: U.S. Navy Seaman André Johnson]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[U.S. Navy Seaman André Johnson is greeted by his mother, Sandra Johnson of Odessa, and the Permian Basin Welcome Home Committee upon his arrival Sept. 2 at the Midland International Airport. Johnson is a fireman machinist mate in Navy. After his...]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[LETTER: More teachers like Stroder needed]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[ Evelyn Stroder, retired English teacher from Crane, is a bright light in the world of teaching children the basic skills of reading and writing.  I’m sorry she can’t be cloned and sent to Austin, over and over again.    Mrs. Stroder’s...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[LETTER: We all need to do more to conserve]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I am writing to you about the article you did in the Aug. 31 Odessa American “Base Water Rate Amount Draws Scrutiny.” I do not believe that it is so much the water rates going up we should be concerned about as it is the fact that people are not...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Carol Siddall]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[SOWELL: Bait and switch on taxes]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[We have heard many times from President Barack Obama how he plans to raise taxes on "millionaires and billionaires," but not on the middle class. Apparently, if you don't happen to be a millionaire or billionaire, you don't have to worry.But the...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[TEXAS VIEW: Texas lost its own voter ID case]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Challenges under the Voting Rights Act are always contentious and, as far as the evidence goes, often contradictory. This was especially true in July when a three-judge federal panel heard the case on the voter ID law in Texas. Attorneys presented...]]></description>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Commissioners to vote on county budget, tax rate]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[After numerous meetings with department heads, Ector County Commissioners will make their final vote Monday on the county’s budget for fiscal year 2012-2013 and vote to approve the lower tax rate for the county.If approved, the proposed budget of...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[HORTICULTURE:  Xeriscaping is good for water wise landscaping]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Xeriscape, a word created by combining the Greek word xeric with scape, to read literally, dry view. We use the term to define a low water use landscape as opposed to no water use. Unfortunately, it is often mistakenly spelled and pronounced...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 15:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<title><![CDATA[Settles Hotel looks for October opening]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The City of Big Spring has been waiting more than 20 years to see the old Settles Hotel open its doors again.Scheduled to have its grand re-opening in September after the doors were closed during the 1980s, delays have kept the hotel from housing...]]></description>
			
			<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 13:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
			
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[BY NATHANIEL MILLER]]></dc:creator>
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			<title><![CDATA[DR. PONDER: Hearing impairment and diabetes]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Listen up. Over two thirds of diabetics have some amount of hearing impairment compared to non-diabetics. This is an underappreciated complication of diabetes.
In non-diabetics, it is well known that heart disease and smoking are associated with...]]></description>
			
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			<dc:creator><![CDATA[BY DR. STEPHEN PONDER]]></dc:creator>
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