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	<title>Bellicose Bumpkin &#187; Uncategorized</title>
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		<title>Town meeting followup</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This old media article covers last night&#8217;s town meeting. Turnout was pretty good(222) and retention even better &#8211; it was short, quick meeting. The meeting opened with former moderator Jim Thomas taking current moderator Wayne Perkins to the moderator&#8217;s woodshed for a whippin&#8217; with his hickory switch. Thomas thought the first meeting was not properly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Checking twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:07:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a test post to see if it tweets properly]]></description>
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		<title>Hello world!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!]]></description>
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		<title>Gazette 2009-05-06 companion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 12:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post contains links and supplemental information for my Bumpkin&#8217;s Corner column for 2009-05-06. That&#8217;s May 6, 2009 for people attached to dates that don&#8217;t naturally sort themselves. This column discusses career changing. Here are a few links with related information: Podcast &#8211; Changing careers &#8211; discussion with David Jacobson Podcast &#8211; New CSA &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal lands and fee-to-trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the discussions happening in the casino debate is whether or not Congress can take land into trust(fee-to-trust) in the original thirteen colonies. Carl&#8217;s Casino Quotes and Commentary discusses this in a recent post. The idea is that Congress can only take federal lands into trust, there are no federal lands in the original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casino jobs study</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that whenever a study shows magic benefits and no costs for casinos, it is always funded by an entity that stands to gain from them? Casinos are a terrific source of good-paying, benefit-rich, blue-collar jobs, the Labor Resource Center of the University of Massachusetts at Boston has found. Sounds great until you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; business</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something fundamentally wrong with this discussion that took place at a recent Middleboro BOS meeting. The discussion followed a routine hearing to grant a license for a new business &#8211; Ragz &#8211; a secondhand women&#8217;s clothing store. I&#8217;ll say no more and leave it to the viewer to decide for themselves.]]></description>
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		<title>Casino task force meeting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Wicked Local: It&#8217;s a hot topic, and one sure to bring out a vast array of opinions. The Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Task Force on Casino Impacts will hold its monthly meeting at the Carver High School auditorium at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan 15. The task force meets monthly to discuss the proposed casino in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Or is he &#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reported yesterday that Shawn Hendricks and Desire Hendricks-Moreno were placed on administrative leave following a vote an an emergency meeting of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council and budding Bingo Hall/Casino managers. Seems that Mr. Hendricks doesn&#8217;t like that idea. Man, this is like watching a train wreck in slow motion: A simmering factional struggle [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bumpkin and CPA in the news</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 02:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the news &#8230; againI&#8217;m getting sick of myself. The front page of the Gazette featured this article and photo about the fledgling effort to pass CPA in Middleboro. The article was fair and accurate Help wantedWe have over 900 signatures to collect and less than a month remaining to do it. I have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something to talk about</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Gazette: &#8220;Something to Talk About, a new feature for the Opinion page that appears for the first time this week, is designed to encourage our readers to engage in discussion on issues and events of the day. On a regular basis we&#8217;ll be inviting everyone to respond from their personal point of view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Voter&#8217;s guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is how I&#8217;ll be voting. Y&#8217;all do what you want. President: &#8211; Obama All other races: &#8211; Democrat Question 1: &#8211; No to a repeal of the income tax though I&#8217;m not sure that I won&#8217;t vote &#8220;Yes&#8221; to send a message. Pass or fail I think the legislature will not allow this to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STM postponed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Oct. 20 Special Town Meeting has been postponed until Monday October 27. Only 93 people showed up &#8211; well short of the 150 needed for a quorum. This was a pathetic showing by the 14,000 registered voters in Middleboro highlighting the number one problem in town: Apathy.]]></description>
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		<title>This is just plain funny</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While watching the debate tonight &#8211; I was initially amused and ultimately disgusted that Palin repeatedly pronounced &#8220;nuclear&#8221; as &#8220;nuculer&#8221; &#8211; just like Bush. I googled for Palin and nuculer and found these funny vids:]]></description>
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		<title>Big sucess at CFO yard sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to say that given the weather, and the political climate, I was expecting to see a lackluster showing at the CFO yard sale. I was totally wrong. This was an awesome location and the turnout was huge. This came in tonight from CFO: Thank you one and all for making our yardsale a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yard sale and better days</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t forget to support the CFO yard sale today at the Lakeville old town hall from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. On a completely unrelated topic, there is a good column in The Day that argues that the current downturn in revenue at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun are more than just temporary results of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CT slot revenues still falling</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/ct-slot-revenues-still-falling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Norwich Bulletin has a good article about Mohegan Sun&#8217;s announcement to suspend expansion. There&#8217;s been a lot of articles on this topic recently but this one sums it up quite nicely. Bottom line &#8211; it seems that we are some years away from an economy that will support more casinos &#8211; regardless of any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe they should downsize to &quot;Lone River&quot;</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/maybe-they-should-downsize-to-lone-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an article from one of my favorite non-Gazette papers about the worsening financial woes of Twin Rivers The main financial backers for the proposed Mashpee Wampanoag casino, already in difficult financial straits, received more bad news in recent days. Moody&#8217;s Investor Service yesterday downgraded the credit rating of their &#8220;racino,&#8221; Twin River, in Rhode [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEHIC meeting</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/cehic-meeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Nemasket forum: The Middleboro Citizens Environmental Health Impact Committee (CEHIC) will be meeting on Thursday September 25th @ 7:00pm in the Town Hall Auditorium. Their will be a discussion on the Rockland Industry site, the recent Technical Assistant Grant and open discussion. The public is urged to attend and voice their concerns. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Task force meeting Thursday</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/task-force-meeting-thursday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Taunton Gazette: Taunton — A task force representing as many as 21 area communities will be in Taunton this Thursday night to discuss the ramifications of casino gambling in Middleboro. The meeting is open to the public and will be held starting at 7 p.m. in the City Council Chambers inside city hall. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart growth planning</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/smart-growth-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Wicked Local article raises an interesting point about how communities can cash in on smart growth. Just so we&#8217;re all on the same page, smart growth is defined by Wikipedia, the ultimate source of all irrefutable knowledge this way: Smart growth is an urban planning and transportation theory that concentrates growth in the center [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watching the watchers</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/watching-the-watchers/</link>
		<comments>http://nemasket.net/watching-the-watchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest Gazette column is in this week&#8217;s paper and talks about citizen watchdogs: who they are, how they work, and what watchdogs wannabes might do. Columns are not on line so you&#8217;ll have to spring .50 for it. In addition to the witty writing, each column has a very fetching picture of me &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Too funny &#8211; President Bumpkin</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/too-funny-president-bumpkin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend sent me this link just now. Too funny.]]></description>
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		<title>CPA in Kingston</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/cpa-in-kingston/</link>
		<comments>http://nemasket.net/cpa-in-kingston/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another in my ongoing series on CPA, this article reports on a historic preservation effort in Kingston to restore the Major John Bradford Homestead. Using a grant from the town&#8217;s CPA fund, a structural assessment was conducted on the property. At some later date, the local history preservation society will try to obtain another CPA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bumpkin&#8217;s Corner</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/bumpkins-corner/</link>
		<comments>http://nemasket.net/bumpkins-corner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a staging ground for my Gazette Articles. The blog is not listed and is invitation only. It is a place to jot down story ideas and ultimately write them.]]></description>
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