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	<title>Birmingham Weekly &#187; alabama</title>
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		<title>Letter to an unknown Auburn fan</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/03/03/letter-to-an-unknown-auburn-fan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/03/03/letter-to-an-unknown-auburn-fan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allen Barra</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Auburn]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[retroactive]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=12192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Debunking a bunk debunking]]></description>
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		<title>Feel the Byrne</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/24/feel-the-byrne/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/24/feel-the-byrne/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bradley Byrne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitutional reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Django Reinhardt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Gould]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[iPad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open Secret film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephane Grappelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trilateral Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vampire Weekend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yma Sumac]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In which the columnist draws a line between Django Reinhardt &#038; constitutional reform in Alabama]]></description>
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		<title>Bloomberg tags Alabama Republicans for stimulus hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/22/bloomberg-tags-alabama-republicans-for-stimulus-hypocrisy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/22/bloomberg-tags-alabama-republicans-for-stimulus-hypocrisy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madison Underwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What the Weekly's Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ARRA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bloomberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jo Bonner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parker Griffith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Aderholt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stimulus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alabama Congressmen Jo Bonner and Robert Aderholt, in regards to the stimulus bill, both asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legislature considers giving locals more control on quarry siting</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/20/legislature-considers-giving-locals-more-control-on-quarry-siting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/20/legislature-considers-giving-locals-more-control-on-quarry-siting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Weekly Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Snyder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AEMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Department of Environmental Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Department of Industrial Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Environmental Management Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Mask]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Butch Taylor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation Alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elwyn Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Management Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff McLaughlin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patricia Todd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quarry sites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quarrying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[siting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Snyder wraps up the environmental news from Montgomery in this week's legislative dispatch.]]></description>
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		<title>Commission to interview three finalists for ADEM director</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/18/commission-to-interview-three-finalists-for-adem-director/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/02/18/commission-to-interview-three-finalists-for-adem-director/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madison Underwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADEM director search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AEMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Department of Environmental Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Environmental Management Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dean Argo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Management Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lance LeFleur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Martin Montgomery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prattville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trey Glenn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interviews are scheduled to take place Friday, Feb. 19. A summary of the candidate's applications, along with links to their resumes, are inside.]]></description>
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		<title>Energy bills on the move in legislature</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/28/energy-bills-on-the-move-in-legislature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/28/energy-bills-on-the-move-in-legislature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Weekly Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Snyder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Department of Environmental Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Riley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation Alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forever Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roads]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Adam Snyder, executive director of Conservation Alabama, is providing Green Space with regular updates regarding the status of key bills ]]></description>
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		<title>Residents fight back against strip-mining</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/26/residents-fight-back-against-strip-mining/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/26/residents-fight-back-against-strip-mining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madison Underwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What the Weekly's Reading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air pollution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Surface Mining Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Warrior Riverkeeper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blount County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cullman County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[land reclamation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MCoal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Coal of Alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randall Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Smith Lake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strip mine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[strip mining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water pollution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Birmingham News reporter Thomas Spencer had a great article in Sunday&#8217;s paper on the rise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental groups request federal takeover of ADEM</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/25/environmental-groups-request-federal-takeover-of-adem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/25/environmental-groups-request-federal-takeover-of-adem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madison Underwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Department of Environmental Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Rivers Alliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Warrior Riverkeeper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choctawhatchee Riverkeeper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clean Water Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EMC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Management Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Protection Agency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friends of Hurricane Creek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hurricane Creekkeeper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Wathen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mike Mullen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitch Reid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPDES]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scott Hughes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trey Glenn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water pollution]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11627</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fourteen Alabama environmental groups took a step last Friday that ought to send a chill up the spine of polluters ]]></description>
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		<title>Environment on defense during Alabama legislative session</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/22/environment-on-defense-during-alabama-legislative-session/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/22/environment-on-defense-during-alabama-legislative-session/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Weekly Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Snyder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Department of Environmental Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation Alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forever Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Benefield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lowell Barron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Lindsey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Bedford]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Adam Snyder provide Green Space with updates regarding the status of key bills related to the environment during the current session of the Alabama legislature]]></description>
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		<title>Share the road, save a life</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/21/share-the-road-save-a-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/21/share-the-road-save-a-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Weekly Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cycling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Tenpas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jenny Dorgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transportation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bike riders have the same rights and responsibilities as other drivers ]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[War on Dumb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deficit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson County Commission]]></category>
		<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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		<title>Forever Wild forever?</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/16/forever-wild-forever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/16/forever-wild-forever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse Chambers</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barnett Lawley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forever Wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Porter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Protect Forever Wild]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bhamweekly.com/?p=11496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A coalition of Alabama business, conservation, and environmental leaders have stepped forward to protect the successful program]]></description>
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		<title>How green is my legislature?</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/15/how-green-is-my-legislature/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2010/01/15/how-green-is-my-legislature/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Weekly Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adam Snyder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Department of Environmental Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Legislature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Green]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adam Snyder of Conservation Alabama updates Weekly readers on the status of current bills]]></description>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Katopodis]]></category>
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		<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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		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<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>

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		<title>Artur Davis campaign fires off at Ron Sparks</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/29/artur-davis-campaign-fires-off-at-ron-sparks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/29/artur-davis-campaign-fires-off-at-ron-sparks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madison Underwood</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alabama politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Artur Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parker Griffith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ron Sparks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After Ron Sparks announcement that he will not challenge Parker Griffith&#8217;s seat in Congress and [...]]]></description>
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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>

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		<description><![CDATA[Evidently, your city's money is someone else's problem]]></description>
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		<title>Obsessive Compulsive Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/17/obsessive-compulsive-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/17/obsessive-compulsive-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney Haden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barry Beckett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ben Burford]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Bogle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chevy 6]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drake Levin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elvis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Les Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Revere's Raiders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ron Asheton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shorty Price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Seeds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Stooges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Ventures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A holiday drive through the years with Chevy 6

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		<title>Riverkeeper keeps coal clean</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/16/riverkeeper-keeps-coal-clean/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/16/riverkeeper-keeps-coal-clean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Madison Underwood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Green Space]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ADEM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Department Environmental Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alabama Surface Mining Commission]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Warrior River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Black Warrior Riverkeeper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Locust Fork River]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shepherd Bend Mine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Environmental Law Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trey Glenn]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The litigation of ADEM’s permit process

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		<title>Birmingham Election Night Live Blog</title>
		<link>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/08/birmingham-election-night-live-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.bhamweekly.com/2009/12/08/birmingham-election-night-live-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 01:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Whitmire</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Citizen's Digest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alabama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birmingham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carole Smitherman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emory Anthony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mayoral election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Patrick Cooper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Bell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Birmingham mayoral results live as they come in. ]]></description>
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