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			<title><![CDATA[Watch for the coastal bailouts]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Is California too big to fail? Is New York? We may be about to find out.

New York is wrestling with a $9 billion budget deficit that it hopes to solve by adding $6 billion in debt to be paid off with future revenues. California's deficit is $20 billion, which Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:28:07</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Blast from Detroit City Council's past]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Detroit's new City Council members haven't shaken off all of the peculiarities of the old body, which was notorious for weighing in on the side of leftists on national and international issues that had no relevance to Detroit.

Last week, the New Jersey Former Troopers Association sent a scathing]]></description>
			<author>(Nolan Finley)</author>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:38:39</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Worth every dime]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Detroit teachers union is foaming at the mouth over Robert Bobb's $81,000 pay raise, which takes the salary of the Detroit Public Schools' emergency financial manager to $425,000 a year.
Pure greed, say the teachers, who note that they've been asked to make concessions to help balance the]]></description>
			<author>(Nolan Finley)</author>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:40:27</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Senators betray Michigan taxpayers]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Don't make the mistake of thinking reforming Michigan is inevitable this year, despite what the politicians in Lansing are saying. They still lack the will to make substantive, common-sense changes.
Take as evidence the failure Wednesday by the Senate to get the two-thirds support needed to roll]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:25:48</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bing finally talks trash]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Detroit Mayor Dave Bing has gained a reputation as a mild-mannered guy who lets his actions speak louder than his words.
That worked for him on the basketball court as a National Basketball Association Hall of Famer for the Detroit Pistons and, in business, as a successful steel executive.
But in]]></description>
			<author>(Nolan Finley)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:13:17</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[How can he sell without the bling?]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's not Kwame Kilpatrick's fault, it turns out, that he is spending so much money on a Dallas mansion that he can't pay the city of Detroit what he owes it. It's what he has to do to keep his job.
What a coal mine Compuware must be, requiring a mid-level salesman like Kilpatrick to maintain a]]></description>
			<author>(Nolan Finley)</author>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:11:23</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama channels Granholm]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Those of us who live in Michigan know exactly what to expect from President Barack Obama's new budget deficit task force: More taxes.
The task force is a page out of Gov. Jennifer Granholm's playbook. The governor has formed such study groups whenever she has needed to deflect a tough]]></description>
			<author>(Nolan Finley)</author>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:06:59</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Yet again, racial divide prevails]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be Detroit if race hadn't found its way into Sam Riddle's trial on federal bribery charges.
The only black juror is being accused by some of her fellow jurors of refusing to go along with the majority determination to convict because Riddle is black.
He sure is. 
He's a black man who]]></description>
			<author>(Nolan Finley)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:48:56</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Let it snow, let it snow]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Washington has been shut down most of the week.
That's the good news. With lawmakers stuck in their homes, they have not been able to adopt new spending bills for their friends and supporters, contemplate new taxes or order new regulations that intrude on our individual rights.
If America manages]]></description>
			<author>(Nolan Finley)</author>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:13:39</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Bureaucrats are killing babies]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Medical workers are doing heroic service in Haiti to save children harmed or left parentless by the earthquake. 
But bureaucratic red tape has slowed their efforts to airlift the most critically injured and ill children out of the country to hospitals in the United States.
Since last week's]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:29:03</pubDate>
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