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	<title>News notes &#187; State and national issues</title>
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		<title>Taking down Kwame &#8211; no hard feelings</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/02/taking-down-kwame-no-hard-feelings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/02/taking-down-kwame-no-hard-feelings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s not personal.&#8221;
That comes from Mike Elrick, one of the reporters who broke the text message story that ended in Kwame Kilpatrick moving from city hall to the county jail.
&#8220;It&#8217;s business. Just doing my job. No hard feelings on my part,&#8221; was how Elrick described his state of mind just days after the former mayor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Adams had a message for Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/01/john-adams-had-a-message-for-barack-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/01/john-adams-had-a-message-for-barack-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the eve of Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration, I just finished &#8220;John Adams,&#8221; by David McCullough.
I know, I&#8217;m behind on my reading. Everyone else watched the movie last year, and read the book years ago. But it&#8217;s not unusual for me to miss a trend.
Adams was the first U.S. president to live in the White House. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two sides of Detroit worth reading</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/01/two-sides-of-detroit-worth-reading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/01/two-sides-of-detroit-worth-reading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State and national issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In recent days I&#8217;ve run across two brilliantly written essays on the plight of Detroit &#8211; one dark and brooding and one bright and uplifting (with a little darkness, too).
Both are long, but also worth the time it takes to read them. They give you a depressingly real view of how bad things are in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sad day for SE Michigan, nation</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/11/sad-day-for-se-michigan-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/11/sad-day-for-se-michigan-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is, indeed, a sad day for Southeast Michigan and for America.
John Dingell didn&#8217;t deserve to have his key Energy and Commerce chairmanship taken from him (link to story). For his party to ignore his long and impressive legislative record is a slap in the face and a shame.
But, as they say, that&#8217;s politics. You don&#8217;t spend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dingell-Waxman battle important for Michigan, nation</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/11/dingell-waxman-battle-important-for-michigan-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/11/dingell-waxman-battle-important-for-michigan-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has John Dingell been wrong to protect the Big Three from tougher environmenal standards?
Yep.
Does that mean he should be pushed out of his chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee?
Nope.
Dingell, the 82-year-old Democrat who has been a member of Congress since 1955, has an impressive record as a protector of the environment and as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Separating race from hope</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/11/separating-race-from-hope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/11/separating-race-from-hope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 20:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State and national issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As America and the world celebrate the historic election of an African-American as president of the United States, a host of emotions are swirling through our collective minds.
We&#8217;re proud of America, for dealng another blow to racism and bigotry.
We&#8217;re amazed at how far we&#8217;ve come &#8211; just a generation ago blacks were fighting to attend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Historic swing places responsibility on Democrats</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/11/historic-swing-places-responsibility-on-democrats/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/11/historic-swing-places-responsibility-on-democrats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the White House and Congress swing to the Democrats, along with the spoils of victory come the responsibility of ruling.
It&#8217;s been more than 40 years since one political party has controlled the White House and held a filibuster-proof lead in the House and Senate. If that happens tonight, and it now seems possible, that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting global emissions a personal issue here</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/07/cutting-global-emissions-a-personal-issue-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/07/cutting-global-emissions-a-personal-issue-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues, events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the world&#8217;s leaders get together in a place called Rusutsu, Japan, and agree to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050, it sounds like something a long way away that could hardly mean anything to folks in Monroe County.
And, it is true, most experts pooh-pooh the move as meaningless rhetoric.
But few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Okay, I was wrong about the primaries &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/06/being-wrong-is-nothing-new/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/06/being-wrong-is-nothing-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State and national issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago, I predicted that none of the frontrunners in the race for president would get their parties&#8217; nominations.
I&#8217;m now officially wrong, on both sides of the fence.
My rationale was that both John McCain and Barack Obama had flaws that couldn&#8217;t be overcome. For McCain, it was his support of the war in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Democrats still don&#8217;t get it</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/04/michigan-democrats-still-dont-get-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/04/michigan-democrats-still-dont-get-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State and national issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Michigan Democrats are busy picking delegates to the national convention in August.
There seems to be a grim resolve to try to make the best of a disastrous comedy of errors that has disenfranchised the state&#8217;s Democratic voters.
State party leaders are going ahead with the process of picking delegates, bravely maintaining that they&#8217;ll eventually be seated [...]]]></description>
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