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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Council Member Indicted on Theft Charges]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baltimore County Council member Kenneth N. Oliver was indicted yesterday on felony theft charges involving  the personal use of campaign funds, the state prosecutors office said.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/council-member-indicted-on-theft-charges,167300.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Report finds hope for reform in Albany]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jay Gallagher • Albany Bureau • January 6, 2009 ALBANY - The group that labeled New Yorks Legislature as the nations most dysfunctional in 2004 issued a report Monday claiming the body is still broken, but possibly headed for reform.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/report-finds-hope-for-reform-in-albany,167301.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Kerry announces southwest Asia trip]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senator John F. Kerrys office announced yesterday afternoon that his first major trip as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee will be to southwest Asia, a particularly troubled part of the globe.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/kerry-announces-southwest-asia-trip,167299.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Houstons interest lies with Straus]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our governor may still be from Paint Creek. But our next House speaker will almost certainly be a city boy from San Antonio. For only the second time in 70 years, lawmakers in our famously countrified state appear poised to back a... <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/houstons-interest-lies-with-straus,167296.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Anuzis makes case as GOP charts future]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Change on Republican minds as hopefuls to lead RNC debate how best to rally from 2008 defeats. WASHINGTON -- The six contenders for chairman of the Republican National Committee held a low-key debate Monday, with Michigan GOP Chairman... <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/anuzis-makes-case-as-gop-charts-future,167297.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[US Attorney General Griffin B. Bell, 90; Voice of Moderation as]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Adam Bernstein Griffin B. Bell, 90, a corporate lawyer and federal appeals court judge who became the first US attorney general of President Jimmy Carter, his longtime friend and fellow Georgian, died Jan. 5 at Piedmont Hospital in... <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/us-attorney-general-griffin-b--bell-90;-voice-of-moderation-as,167298.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Bush to create three marine monuments]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A president who had been assailed by environmentalists will have set aside more square miles of ocean for protection than any other political leader.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/bush-to-create-three-marine-monuments,167295.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Laura Bush gets contract for memoir]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - Laura Bush has won the first contract for the first memoir from the first family. The White House and Scribner yesterday announced the deal for the memoir, scheduled for publication next year.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/laura-bush-gets-contract-for-memoir,167294.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[No hiding the disappointment about Richardson]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Richardsons decision to pull out of Obamas Cabinet hurts his standing as a Latino leader and the political causes he supports, analysts say.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/no-hiding-the-disappointment-about-richardson,167293.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Franken wins Minn. seat but lawsuit likely]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[OFF TO SCHOOL - President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, got their daughters Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10, ready yesterday for their first day at a new school.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/franken-wins-minn--seat-but-lawsuit-likely,167291.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Harvard braces for Kagan departure]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Peter Schworm When Harvard Law School dean Elena Kagan was passed over for the presidency of Harvard University nearly two years ago, law students and faculty threw a party in her honor to celebrate her staying on.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/harvard-braces-for-kagan-departure,167292.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Obama goes to bat for stimulus]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joseph Williams WASHINGTON - As details of his economic stimulus plan begin to emerge, President-elect Barack Obama engaged in rare, preinaugural lobbying for it on Capitol Hill yesterday, building bipartisan support  among... <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/obama-goes-to-bat-for-stimulus,167289.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Obamas election is changing the politics of race]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many black leaders are rejecting the old tactics of protest and rhetoric of inequality. You cant use 50-year-old ideas in a new political era, one pastor says.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/obamas-election-is-changing-the-politics-of-race,167290.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Troopers union backs off on allegations]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By TOM KIZZIA The union representing state troopers has backed off allegations that a drug investigation of Sherry Johnston was slowed down last fall to shield the national  candidacy of Gov.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/troopers-union-backs-off-on-allegations,167239.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[DiMasi confident hell again lead House]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Andrea Estes Facing little open dissent in the House, Salvatore F. DiMasi yesterday predicted he will easily win a third term as speaker when the members return to Beacon Hill tomorrow for the start of the legislative session.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/dimasi-confident-hell-again-lead-house,167237.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[City Council picks Ross to lead in time of challenge]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Donovan Slack Michael Ross became the first Jewish president of the Boston City Council yesterday as his father, a Holocaust survivor, looked on from packed council chambers with tears in his eyes.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/city-council-picks-ross-to-lead-in-time-of-challenge,167238.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Timber company drops road deal with Forest Service]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[HELENA, Mont. (AP) - The nations largest owner of timberland disclosed Monday that it will no longer pursue changes in agreements governing its use of US Forest Service roads - changes that critics complained could transform forests into... <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/timber-company-drops-road-deal-with-forest-service,167234.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[To Obama Girls, Day 1 Is Here]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Leiby and DeNeen L. Brown First, make sure you look super-cute for the morning photos with Mom and Dad -- cause theyre going on the Internet.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/to-obama-girls-day-1-is-here,167235.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[Senator Claiborne Pell’s Vision]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By MAURA J. CASEY Former Senator Claiborne Pell, the Rhode Island Democrat who died last week at the age of 90, is best known as the father of Pell Grants, the program giving aid to low-income college students that bears his name.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/senator-claiborne-pell’s-vision,167236.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<title><![CDATA[EBays Whitman appears set  to run for governor]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mary Anne Ostrom In this Sept. 3, 2008 file photo, Meg Whitman, former president and CEO of eBay, speaks at the Republican National Convention in St.  <a href="http://www.front-news.com/item/ebays-whitman-appears-set--to-run-for-governor,167232.html" title="read more...">read more...</a>]]></description>
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