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		<title>Gazette column for 10/7/2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s Middleboro Gazette column I flesh out some of the things I talked about in a recent column regarding Middleboro&#8217;s above average obesity rates and below average MCAS scores. My original post stated that Middleboro was fourth worst in the study. On closer read of the article that post was based on, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eye-popping Gazette letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some notable stuff in this week&#8217;s Middleboro Gazette. First and foremost of course is my column &#8211; an innocuous piece that sings the praises of the Middleboro Library. Basically it recounts what a jackass I was when I first started using the Internet and thought that libraries were useless and obsolete. . Update &#8211; It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gazette column for 3/11/2010</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/gazette-column-for-3112010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Middleboro Gazette column concerns health care for town employees. The increase in costs for these plans mostly exceed our increase in revenues and are a big part of the reason for the deficits in recent and coming years. The column draws heavily from information in the recent Sean Murhpy articles, along with some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making winter suck less</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Gazette column is about exercising in winter &#8211; something that is tough to get motivated to do, but really helps your winter mindset. These photos are from a recent run at Pratt Farm and a bike ride in the woods at the Morgan property. . If you don&#8217;t like the embedded slideshow below, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12/17/2009 Gazette</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My column in this week&#8217;s Gazette takes a break from bemoaning the woes of the world and tries to focus on the good things in Middleboro. - I felt like taking a break from the drama with the holidays approaching. You can be sure there&#8217;ll be plenty of trials and tribulations to talk about in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gazette 2009-09-24 companion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My column this week discusses Kenny Cieplik and Company from The Traveling Wheelchair blog. I first talked about Kenny in a post a couple of months ago and again just recently. The column clocks in at over 900 words &#8211; and that includes really cutting it short. There was just too much information I wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging to ADA compliance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back, I posted about an encounter with the author(s) of The Traveling Wheelchair. This most excellent blog posts reviews of public places giving them zero to five stars based solely on their wheelchair accessibility and ADA compliance. This encounter led to some emails and link exchanges. Yesterday I met with Kenny Cieplik and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6/4/2009 Gazette companion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the companion blog to my June 4, 2009 Gazette column &#8211; Guide to the Local Internet. Here are the links to the local sites discussed in the column. News aggregators&#160;&#160;&#160;Nemasket.net&#160;&#160;&#160;Blog roundup News&#160;&#160;&#160;Middleborough News&#160;&#160;&#160;Jory Pepper Blog Politics&#160;&#160;&#160;Bellicose Bumpkin&#160;&#160;&#160;Middleboro Review&#160;&#160;&#160;Coffee Shop Talk&#160;&#160;&#160;Brownie, You&#8217;re Doing a Heckuva Job&#160;&#160;&#160;Reel Wamps History&#160;&#160;&#160;Recollecting Nemasket Casino&#160;&#160;&#160;Gladys Kravitz&#160;&#160;&#160;Carver Chick&#160;&#160;&#160;Casino Helper&#160;&#160;&#160;Fiferstone&#160;&#160;&#160;Truth To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gazette 2009-05-21 companion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Gazette article started of being about how my musical tastes evolved over time. It ended up being an acknowledgement of how, like it or not, our parents influence us in ways both overt and subtle. Here are some clips that tie in to the column. Polka purgatoryI could&#8217;t have come up with anything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gazette &#8211; recycling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My column in this week&#8217;s Gazette talks about recycling and the need for people and particularly businesses to do more. I would like to see the Middleboro BOS encourage more recycling &#8211; both from residences and businesses. They might even consider a committee similar to one formed in Medford that took a comprehensive look at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gazette &#8211; election analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Bumpkin&#8217;s Corner column in the Gazette covers last Saturday&#8217;s Middleboro election. Specifically, it&#8217;s my take on the results and what they mean. The Gazette doesn&#8217;t publish columns on their web site &#8211; which makes blog posts like this one a bit clumsy. For the say of discussion, the article proceeds from this assertion: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middleboro&#8217;s gems &#8211; UPDATE</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/middleboros-gems-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My column in this week&#8217;s Gazette talks about some of Middleboro&#8217;s community land such as Pratt Farm and the ways town-owned land can be used: Hiking, biking, community gardens, etc. It also discusses the MA Greenways and Trails Project &#8211; a state program that provides expertise and grants for greenways &#8211; &#8220;corridors of land and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networking in the Gazette</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/networking-in-the-gazette/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest Gazette column is about social/professional networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, Plaxo. It also discusses managing them more effectively by plugging them into libpurple-based Instant Messaging clients such as Pidgin and Adium. There is a good ed. from Jane Lopes(hi boss) about the sorry state of Middleboro town technology w/regards to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rediscovering live music</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/rediscovering-live-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Gazette column discusses how the Narrows Center for the Arts helped me rediscover my love of seeing live music. There is also a front page article about the CPA discussion at the last BOS meeting. I&#8217;ll be posting video and commentary on that soon. Back to point. I&#8217;ve just gotten a response to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marshall indictment and trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Gazette column is my first that deals with the casino. It discusses the many points where the Middleboro BOS and Jack Healey went astray &#8211; most recently with the Marshall indictment. &#8211; The land auction &#8211; The Healey Agreement &#8211; The Whittlesey agreement &#8211; Marginalizing anti-casino residents &#8211; TMFH and the final agreement &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boat in the river</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/boat-in-the-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My article in this week&#8217;s Gazette is a personal story of a couple of key events that led to major changes in my life. If you have any similar stories, please share them via comment &#8211; anonymous or otherwise.]]></description>
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		<title>Rampant consumerism run amok</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Such is the subject of my latest Middleboro Gazette column which comes out today(12/4/2008). It was prompted by a day-long cleaning session designed to rid the house of old junk to make way for the new junk that will come with Xmas. I&#8217;m always looking for new column topics so send them along &#8211; via [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best software tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest column for the Gazette comes out today. It is a tech column that mentions my favorite free software tools. I cover office tools, image editing, audio editing, audio/video conferencing, and many common computing tasks. I really thought the editor was going to balk at this column but she seemed to like it&#8230; or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helicopter parenting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest Gazette column is out today and discusses people who over-parent &#8211; also known as helicopter parents. Actually it&#8217;s not about &#8220;people&#8221; it&#8217;s specifically about me. I would never criticize anyone else for anything. From Wikipedia: Helicopter parent is a colloquial, early 21st-century term for a parent who pays extremely close attention to his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Town Meeting &#8230; and other meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nemasket.net/?p=468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My latest article for the Gazette comes out today. It is the first in something I call the &#8220;Spotlight Series&#8221;. This series will look at Middleboro town government with a goal of helping the average citizen understand how it all hangs together and hopefully encourage more participation. Today&#8217;s article is a high level overview of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ace reporter &#8211; Bumpkin</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/ace-reporter-bumpkin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.nemasket.net/?p=398</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bumpkin&#8217;s Corner?I&#8217;ve been asked by the Middleboro Gazette to write a column. It will appear on alternating weeks starting a week from next Thursday. Temporarily titled &#8220;Bumpkin&#8217;s Corner&#8221;, it will be very like my blog minus the casino-centric focus and with more meat on the article bones. This offer come to me yesterday &#8211; completely [...]]]></description>
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