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		<title>Trusting the MBTA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come on, Enterprise editors. &#8220;State may help pay for town&#8217;s rail costs&#8221;  You&#8217;re playing right into the MBTA&#8217;s hands here. Haven&#8217;t you learned anything from watching the MBTA negotiate with South Shore communities over the last 20 years? You&#8217;re making this sound like it&#8217;s all but a done deal, that the MBTA will GLADLY build [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sacredcods.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385999&amp;post=268&amp;subd=sacredcods&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Gosselin finally grows a set</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:36:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TLC &#8212; the channel some refer to as Torturing Little Children, thanks to their emphasis on reality-based shows that invariable involve children in wierd situations &#8212; has been banned from the Gosselin home, per The Man of the House. Now if Jon Gosselin had finally put his foot down, and kicked out the crews three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sacredcods.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385999&amp;post=266&amp;subd=sacredcods&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. GOP gets their poster child</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:20:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I was in charge of the state Republican Party, I&#8217;d make state Rep. Paul Kujawski my poster child for all that&#8217;s wrong with Beacon Hill. Sure, it may be a bit unfair for &#8220;Kujo&#8221; but, boy, does he play the part well.  He may do a good job representing the good people of Webster, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sacredcods.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385999&amp;post=264&amp;subd=sacredcods&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Gosselin helps nudge up unemployment rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People Magazine is reporting that Jon Gosselin is being dropped from Jon &#38; Kate Plus 8 and that the show, as of Nov. 2, wil be called simply Kate Plus 8. &#8220;Given Jon&#8217;s recent antics, there was no way the show could continue to portray him as a doting Dad, not while all this other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sacredcods.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385999&amp;post=262&amp;subd=sacredcods&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Sen. Dukakis? And Coakley vs. Capuano vs. Pagliuca</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t want to post today. I really didn&#8217;t. Frankly, I have too many things swirling around to be on spacebook and the twatter. Real, actual job responsibilities. A dog who may or may not have swine flu. Bursitis in the bocce elbow. But the developments in the US Senate race are coming too fast to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sacredcods.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385999&amp;post=260&amp;subd=sacredcods&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad people doing bad things</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boston Globe&#8217;s Ideas section had an interesting piece this past weekend on the writings of a formerly obscure economist named Hyman Minsky who, since the collapse of the financial system, has become a very popular fugure. Minsky spent decades warning that capitalism, specifically, the financial markets, has a major genetic flaw that can lead to major meltdowns. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sacredcods.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385999&amp;post=257&amp;subd=sacredcods&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faulty concrete ties to close down commuter rail lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story should be infuriating to everyone. Basically, a Denver company promised that its concrete railroad ties would last twice as long as traditional wooden ties. Instead, they lasted half as long. Turns out the whole Northeast freeze-and-thaw cycle is pretty tough on concrete! Who knew! Here&#8217;s the worst part: the company has spent so much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sacredcods.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385999&amp;post=255&amp;subd=sacredcods&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama, Wilson, and partisan gymnastics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought President Obama&#8217;s speech was fantastic. (Then again, my politics can sometimes lean towards the Marxist commie pinko socialist Nazi end of the spectrum.) I didn&#8217;t realize that Aaron Sorkin was a speechwriter for Obama now. The last five minutes of that speech was something directly out of The American President or any one of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sacredcods.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385999&amp;post=251&amp;subd=sacredcods&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advice and wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, where was I before summer so rudely interrupted? Ah yes, dispensing advice and wisdom. Here&#8217;s my advice and wisdom to Tim Cahill. 1) Don&#8217;t drop your campaign kick-off speech and then fumble around awkwardly to find your place. You say, he did what? Hmmm. That can&#8217;t be a good sign. Oh, I&#8217;m sure that clip [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sacredcods.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385999&amp;post=249&amp;subd=sacredcods&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What now for Deval?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boy, Gov, Deval Patrick really can&#8217;t catch a break can he? He tries to be fiscally repsonsible by spreading budget cuts around fairly, but then gets blindsided by Zoo officials who all but claim the governor is going to be putting animals in a burlap sack and tossing them off the Tobin Bridge So in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sacredcods.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5385999&amp;post=247&amp;subd=sacredcods&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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