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		<title>California State Government run amok</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 22:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Eber</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t like waiting in lines, apathy, stupidity, bad food, lousy wine, boring people, and a host of other stuff we must contend with in the course of our every day lives. Such preferences are...<br/>
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		<title>May 21, 2013: Protest IRS Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 17:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[IRS abuse]]></category>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Rein in the IRS Rallies will be held at noon today across the country. Tweet, e-mail and call your Congress Critters, send letters to the editor of your failing newspapers, flash signs at busy street...<br/>
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		<title>Residents protest Plan Bay Area at Orinda Council Meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 17:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Colman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Worth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[orinda city council]]></category>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[In an uproarious session of the Orinda City Council on Monday, May 13, residents of Orinda and other Bay Area communities expressed strong opposition to plans requiring local communities to build...<br/>
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		<title>Jim Brulte takes reins of California GOP and its fight for relevancy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Eber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[california gop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[california republican party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gop chairman]]></category>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Concord Mayor Dan Helix, Councilman Ron Leone, and Tim Grayson have one thing in common. All were registered Republicans who recently bolted the Party. It is speculated that in the case of these...<br/>
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		<title>Legislature grants California Obamacare Exchange Secrecy on Spending</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BGR</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[California Speaker John Perez (D-Los Angeles) says California law that created an agency to oversee national health care reforms granted it sweeping authority to conceal spending on the contractors...<br/>
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		<title>Dome demolition raises questions for future landmarks</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 22:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Weir</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I just returned from watching the demolition of the Pleasant Hill Dome theater &#8211; very sad. It&#8217;s doubly frustrating in that last Monday evening I was compelled to cast the deciding city...<br/>
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		<title>Use tax shelters to build low-income housing, instead of government subsidies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Colman</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Expensive government bureaucracies are not needed to create housing for people &#8212; low-income or otherwise. Government housing projects often require union labor, raising the price of...<br/>
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		<title>Governor Brown appoints John Gioia to California Air Resources Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BGR</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Governor Jerry Brown appointed Contra Costa County Supervisor John Gioia (Richmond, CA) to the California Air Resources Board to fill the vacant seat representing the San Francisco Bay Area. Gioia...<br/>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BGR</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
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		<title>It is tough living in a PC world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 18:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Eber</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[POLITICS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminists]]></category>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Being politically correct or PC as it is known, has never been one of my better attributes. Offending people with what can be charitably termed an offbeat sense of humor, has often made me struggle...<br/>
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