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		<title>Goo-Goo Watch: Term Limits</title>
		<link>http://fielddog.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/goo-goo-watch-term-limits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is just silly, so silly in fact that I find myself agreeing with Maureen Feeney, whom I despise: At the hearing and meeting, she went on about being raised to vote, vote, vote. When several voters testified at the hearing that they had little interest in municipal elections, she did not take that as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fielddog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833570&amp;post=226&amp;subd=fielddog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Department of the Obvious: Media Division</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe in a stunning display of Casablanca Syndrome (they’re shocked; shocked!)  reported that the Obama Administration employs public relations techniques: President Obama entered the White House promising a new era of openness in government, but when it comes to bad news, his administration often uses one of the oldest tricks in the public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fielddog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833570&amp;post=221&amp;subd=fielddog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Menino Flunky Watch: Maureen Feeney</title>
		<link>http://fielddog.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/menino-flunky-watch-maureen-feeney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Simmons</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Boston Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like some folks on the City Council are growing stones:  With time running out on this year’s session, City Councilor Maureen Feeney is under fire for bottling up dozens of ordinances in her committee &#8211; including one changing mayoral succession and another requiring fire trucks to be replaced after 10 years  For years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fielddog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833570&amp;post=213&amp;subd=fielddog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phoenix Watch: Puerile Journalism 1a</title>
		<link>http://fielddog.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/phoenix-watch-puerile-journalism-1a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Phoenix indulges its infantile anti-Catholicism, at the expense of political literacy: Should the Roman Catholic Church, and the various subsidiary groups and organizations that exist under its umbrella and operate at its direction, be entitled to state- and federal-tax exemptions? Foaming at the mouth over the demise-by-referendum of Maine&#8217;s gay marriage rights, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fielddog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833570&amp;post=208&amp;subd=fielddog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing Martha Coakley&#8217;s Op-Ed Piece</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State Attorney General and candidate for the United States Senate wrote an Op-Ed piece in the Boston Globe.   Herewith my humble attempt at criticism: MASSACHUSETTS HAS some of the best doctors, nurses, and other caregivers in the world. Yet our national health care system costs too much and covers too few. Climbing costs put basic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fielddog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833570&amp;post=200&amp;subd=fielddog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Stupak Amendment and the Avoidance of Reality</title>
		<link>http://fielddog.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/the-stupac-amendment-and-the-avoidance-of-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the passage of the health care bill in the House pro-choicers have been bouncing off the  wall over the amendment to the bill filed by Congressman Bart Stupak, forbidding the use of fully or partially federally-funded insurance plans to pay for abortions, exclusive of rape, incest, or life (not health) of the mother. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fielddog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833570&amp;post=173&amp;subd=fielddog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stupidity in Journalism Watch</title>
		<link>http://fielddog.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/stupidity-in-journalism-watch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;VOTERS TURN OUT IN HIGH NUMBERS FOR ELECTIONS&#8221; : Boston Metro,  November 4, 2009. The turnout was 31.16%<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fielddog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833570&amp;post=167&amp;subd=fielddog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Death of Floon</title>
		<link>http://fielddog.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/the-death-of-floon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still celebrating.  When I finish my analysis of the precinct-by-precinct numbers, I&#8217;ll have a more comprehensive analysis. For the moment, here&#8217;s the unofficial tally: Registered Voters 356453 &#8211; Cards Cast 111067 31.16% MAYOR Total Number of Precincts 254 Precincts Reporting 254 100.0 % Number of Uncast Votes 845 THOMAS M. MENINO 63123 57.27% MICHAEL [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fielddog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833570&amp;post=157&amp;subd=fielddog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Banner&#8217;s Non-Endorsement</title>
		<link>http://fielddog.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/the-banners-non-endorsement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Phoenix&#8217; Adam Reilly had some fun with the Bay State Banner for its non-endorsement editorial on October 29.  Fair enough, but in the context of an earlier blog post essentially acusing the Banner of being in the bag for the Mayor (The Mayor arranged a  $200,000 loan that saved the paper.), a few explanations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fielddog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833570&amp;post=154&amp;subd=fielddog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A caution for 2010</title>
		<link>http://fielddog.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/a-caution-for-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Simmons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the PPP website, there is a note of  caution about misconstruing Republican shrinkage: As Republican identification levels hit record lows in a lot of polling those voters have to go somewhere and what they&#8217;re doing is making the ranks of the independents more conservative and Republican leaning. They may be changing the way they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fielddog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9833570&amp;post=148&amp;subd=fielddog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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