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			<title><![CDATA[GUEST COLUMN - New era dawns for Clothes 4 Kids]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/bdc/opinion//301677</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Clothes 4 Kids has moved in a new direction this year. Many of you have probably heard I am no longer the director of Clothes 4 Kids. I have moved into the &quot;70s&quot; stage of my life and I need to slow down a bit. That doesn&#39;t mean I won&#39;t be involved. Clothes 4 Kids will always be part of me but now I just want to be a volunteer. I have really ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[By CAROLYN WALSH]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-21T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG - 47th race; Lowell traffic]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/bdc/opinion//301351</link>
			<description><![CDATA[O&#39;Neil the clear choiceI am writing to encourage others to join me in voting for Trish O&#39;Neil as the Democratic candidate for the 47th Assembly District on Sept. 9. &nbsp;Trish has impressed me by the hard work she is doing campaigning in the 47th. She has experience that counts; namely, she has owned and operated a family health care business, and she has been on school board and been school board president in ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beaver Dam Daily Citizen]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-19T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG - Downtown fire]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/bdc/opinion//301358</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Firefighter efforts praisedHaving an office across the street, I was a close observer of last Friday&#39;s downtown fire. I heard crowd comments and read in the Daily Citizen that some people were critical of the fire department for not&nbsp;putting water on the fire more quickly. It was clear to me that it took a few minutes for the engines and ladder truck to get into position, attach hoses to hydrants, lay out those ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beaver Dam Daily Citizen]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-19T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MY VIEW - Children headed down the wrong path]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/bdc/opinion//301354</link>
			<description><![CDATA[At the risk of sounding like a cranky old man, today&#39;s topic is &#34;those darned kids.&#34;The issue is more than mere whining, however, and has broader implications than stolen Christmas lights or vandalism in a park bathroom.The proverb, &#34;It takes a whole village to raise a child,&#34; has been turned on its head in recent years in the wake of pedophile priests and numerous child sex offenders. Now any lone adult is ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[By KEN THOMAS
Assistant Editor]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-19T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[GUEST COLUMN - Do you know what to do it you are in an accident?]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/bdc/opinion//301130</link>
			<description><![CDATA[If you have ever been involved in a fender bender what did you do? What should you do? What actions do you take when you see a squad car or county truck on the side of the road? What should you do? Well, let&#39;s answer all those questions.The Wisconsin Department. of Transportation has recently launched an informational campaign on a two traffic laws. One is Wisconsin Act 258 called &#34;If you can steer ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[By TODD NEHLS
Dodge County Sheriff]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-18T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[GUEST COLUMN - Keeping in touch about Beaver Dam]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/bdc/opinion//301136</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Welcome everyone to something new.&nbsp;This is the first in a series of articles that will appear from your mayor intended to help bring insight on various issues and news in-and-around Beaver Dam. Hopefully, you&#39;ll find these articles to be very informative in nature, without my trying to be too overly opinionated. You can expect to hear about the rumors you hear on the street and many other pertinent matters of interest happening in ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[By TOM KENNEDY
Beaver Dam mayor]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-18T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[MAILBAG - McCumber endorsed; hiring new chief]]></title>
			<link>http://wiscnews.com/bdc/opinion//301131</link>
			<description><![CDATA[McCumber best choice in 47thTim McCumber stands head and shoulders above the other candidates in the 47th Assembly District race.&nbsp;I have been an interested observer of the state Assembly since I represented a Columbia and Sauk County district in the Legislature during the four years coinciding with the Dreyfuss administration. Now, with Gene Hahn&#39;s pending retirement, no less than seven people have stepped forward to run for the position, and Tim is the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Beaver Dam Daily Citizen]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-08-18T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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