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		<title>Birmingham 101: What will history say about us?</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/27/birmingham-101-what-will-history-say-about-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bernard Kincaid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Domed Stadium]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eric Robert Rudolph]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA['The city of perpetual promise.' Does that mean incessant failure? Or rather, that Birmingham never gives up hope? ]]></description>
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		<title>Cooper loses second shot, Bell wins fourth</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/20/cooper-loses-second-shot-bell-wins-fourth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/20/cooper-loses-second-shot-bell-wins-fourth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mayoral election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mayoral race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roderick Royal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Bell]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bell faces unprecedented challenges and another mayoral election two years away. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mayors race: The evil of two lessers</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/18/mayors-race-the-evil-of-two-lessers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/18/mayors-race-the-evil-of-two-lessers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham election 2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham mayoral debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham mayoral election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Bell]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Birmingham again must settle for less than it needs

]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Collins calls it quits</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/08/collins-calls-it-quits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/08/collins-calls-it-quits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bettye Fine Collins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[County Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HealthSouth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Katopodis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After more than 30 years in politics, Collins is bowing out before voters can put her head in a basket]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do the dome &#8230; how?</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/30/do-the-dome-how/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/30/do-the-dome-how/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[BJCC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Domed Stadium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Forget Langford's conviction. The most memorable moment of 2009 was breaking ground on the dome. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>What would Larry do?</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/24/what-would-larry-do/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/24/what-would-larry-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham Finance Department]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carole Smitherman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Councilor Valerie Abbott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Garage Cafe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roderick Royal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valerie Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In post-Langford Birmingham, doom is boring]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Birmingham leaders ignore financial crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/17/birmingham-leaders-ignore-financial-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/17/birmingham-leaders-ignore-financial-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:48:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carole Smitherman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roderick Royal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Sayler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Valerie Abbott]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11023</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Evidently, your city's money is someone else's problem]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Birmingham’s hidden deficit</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/03/birmingham%e2%80%99s-hidden-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/03/birmingham%e2%80%99s-hidden-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Sayler]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=10696</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dangerous debts lurk beneath the surface
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can Jefferson County break the bank?</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/20/can-jefferson-county-break-the-bank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/20/can-jefferson-county-break-the-bank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizen's Digest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al LaPierre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Blount]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles LeCroy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas MacFaddin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JPMorgan Securities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SEC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shelia Smoot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Sayler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super Sewer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[swaps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=10433</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jefferson County has declared war on JPMorgan.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Considering the conspiracy that killed JeffCo</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/12/considering-the-conspiracy-that-killed-jeffco/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/12/considering-the-conspiracy-that-killed-jeffco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizen's Digest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ABI Capital]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Blount]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles LeCroy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Douglas MacFaddin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardnyr Michael]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[JPMorgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=10203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Larry Langford didn't shop alone.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The aftermath of Larry Langford </title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/04/the-aftermath-of-larry-langford%c2%a0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/11/04/the-aftermath-of-larry-langford%c2%a0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizen's Digest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al LaPierre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Blount]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carole Smitherman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Sayler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trial]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week's verdict established Larry Langford’s guilt, but it will be a long time before we’re done settling all his unanswered questions.  ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>High stakes and cheapskates</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/20/high-stakes-and-cheapskates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/20/high-stakes-and-cheapskates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizen's Digest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al LaPierre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Blount]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bribes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gus Mayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Buckelew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Rasmussen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The cost of corruption when politicians come cheap]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Life and Crimes of Larry Langford</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/14/the-life-and-crimes-of-larry-langford/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/14/the-life-and-crimes-of-larry-langford/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Al LaPierre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Blount]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bribery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary White]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Katopodis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[trial]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=9298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you watch Langford, one question arises: But for his character flaws, would he have ever been successful? ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Birmingham City Council runoff rundown</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/07/birmingham-city-council-runoff-rundown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/10/07/birmingham-city-council-runoff-rundown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carol Duncan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carole Smitherman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jay Roberson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Rogers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Johnathan Austin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Rafferty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leroy Bandy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Arrington]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roderick Royal]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sheila Tyson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Council President Carole Smitherman wins (for now). Richard Arrington loses big.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Birmingham admits deficit</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/09/24/birmingham-admits-budget-deficit/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/09/24/birmingham-admits-budget-deficit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[accounting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Sayler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Birmingham Finance Department had claimed a $13 million surplus. It was off by only $41 million. ]]></description>
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		<title>Jefferson County’s solution to financial crisis is more debt? </title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/09/16/jefferson-county%e2%80%99s-solution-to-financial-crisis-is-more-debt%e2%80%af/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/09/16/jefferson-county%e2%80%99s-solution-to-financial-crisis-is-more-debt%e2%80%af/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 21:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few years ago this scenario was all too common. A man walks into [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>JeffCo&#8217;s New Coalition is old again</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/09/10/jeffcos-new-coalition-is-old-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/09/10/jeffcos-new-coalition-is-old-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Citizens Coalition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Montgomery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Arrington]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Birmingham needs a new generation of political action, but the 'New' Coalition stopped short of radical change. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Birmingham 2010 budget violates city&#8217;s policy</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/09/04/birmingham-2010-budget-violates-citys-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/09/04/birmingham-2010-budget-violates-citys-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Sayler]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[City continues to spend millions from savings. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Council election yields mixed bag of nuts </title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/08/26/council-election-yields-mixed-bag-of-nuts%c2%a0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/08/26/council-election-yields-mixed-bag-of-nuts%c2%a0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:44:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham City Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carole Smitherman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Council elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elias Hendricks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Howard Bayless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joel Montgomery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Austin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lashunda Scales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maxine Parker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheila Tyson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Hoyt]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=7892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After they’d taped all the returns to the City Hall walls Tuesday night, not much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bill Blount calls it quits</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/08/20/bill-blount-calls-it-quits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/08/20/bill-blount-calls-it-quits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Blount]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Don Siegelman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County bankruptcy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County Commisssion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judge Scott Coogler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Scrushy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tourneau]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are costs and benefits to smoking beyond what it does to your health. A [...]]]></description>
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