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	<title>The Capitol Fax Blog</title>
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	<description>Your Illinois news radar</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Will Buzz save us from drowning or just add more water into the tank?</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/02/09/will-buzz-save-us-from-drowning-or-just-add-more-water-into-the-tank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * When Google launches a new product, I tend to pay attention.   And since most of us here are pretty wired-in, I thought I&#8217;d do a bit about today&#8217;s launch of Google Buzz.  
Go check out a reliable live-blogging of the big announcement by clicking here&#8230;  
One of Google&#8217;s great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One man&#8217;s pork&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/02/09/one-mans-pork-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * The Illinois Policy Institute, which has often teamed up with the House Republicans on policy issues, has published its new &#8220;Piglet Book.&#8221;  It&#8217;s supposed to be a list of pork, but pork, as they say, is in the eyes of the beholder.  
For instance, the IPI publication flat-out states while it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question of the day</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/02/09/question-of-the-day-893/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * Subscribers were told about this idea earlier today, but it turns out that the Sun-Times also has an editorial on the subject&#8230;
The state has been cutting appropriations for higher education for years, but it was not until this year that the state stopped regular payments altogether.
Since July 1, the state has made only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop the lending?</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/02/09/stop-the-lending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * Since December 1st of 2009, campaigns for all state and local offices received almost $10.9 million in loans, according to a search of the State Board of Elections website.  That&#8217;s almost a quarter of the entire amount reported raised in all forms during that same time period ($44.8 million).
About $2.2 million of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A look at the numbers</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/02/09/a-look-at-the-numbers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * Mark Brown has a very good column today about late-arriving absentee ballots and uncounted provisional ballots.
According to Brown, the Cook County Clerk received 213 mailed absentee ballots on Monday, DuPage got 5 and Lake got 2. Lake has a total of 302 GOP ballots yet to be counted (232 absentees and 70 provisionals), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duckworth for LG?</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/02/09/duckworth-for-lg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * Does Pat Quinn want Tammy Duckworth as his running mate?  Sneed says so&#8230;
Sneed hears former Illinois state veterans chief Tammy Duckworth is Gov. Quinn&#8217;s personal pick as lieutenant governor nominee &#8212; replacing the scandal-ridden Scott Lee Cohen.
• The upshot: Although Duckworth is at the top of Quinn&#8217;s original wish list, he will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morning Shorts</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/02/09/morning-shorts-854/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barton Lorimor</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* STAR bonds don&#8217;t add up
When developers unveiled plans for the 900-acre University Town Center in Glen Carbon and asked the state to create STAR bonds to finance it, they predicted the development would generate millions of dollars in state and local tax dollars.
But the Illinois Department of Revenue says state and local governments could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: SUBSCRIBERS ONLY - Today&#8217;s edition of Capitol Fax (use all CAPS in password)</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/02/09/subscribers-only-todays-edition-of-capitol-fax-use-all-caps-in-password-50/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<title>Still nervous?  You should probably calm down</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/02/08/still-nervous-you-should-probably-calm-down/</link>
		<comments>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/02/08/still-nervous-you-should-probably-calm-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[* Scott Lee Cohen hasn&#8217;t yet filed his formal withdrawal papers with the State Board of Elections, but he will tomorrow, his spokesman Baxter Swilley said this afternoon.  The campaign was simply distracted with media interviews today and hasn&#8217;t had time to file the paperwork.
Swilley also tried to tamp down speculation that Cohen would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ITLA ad, Durbin on Madigan and lots of campaign videos</title>
		<link>http://thecapitolfaxblog.com/2010/02/08/itla-ad-durbin-on-madigan-and-lots-of-campaign-videos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rich Miller</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Illinois</category>
	<category>YouTube</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ * The Illinois Trial Lawyers Association knows a legislative backlash is coming in the wake of the Illinois Supreme Court&#8217;s decision knocking down the medical malpractice law.  So, the group is running a new radio ad.  Click here to listen.
House Republican Leader Tom Cross responded to the court&#8217;s decision last week. We [...]]]></description>
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