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	<title><![CDATA[Our View: Let's hope it's not status quo]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[The word on the street among Sarasota city business people well before the election was the two Sues — Suzanne Atwell and Susan Chapman — would take it.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0516201327050/Our-View-Lets-hope-its-not-status-quo</link> 
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Two-lane Fruitville support]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0516201327041/Letters-to-the-Editor</link> 
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	<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Castaway]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0515201327049/Castaway</link> 
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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[My View: Seniors oppose nuclear plants? Not so fast]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Lately it seems every interest group and political candidate trying to win a public debate wants to claim that "senior citizens are on my side."]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0515201326978/My-View-Seniors-oppose-nuclear-plants-Not-so-fast</link> 
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	<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Our View: Fruity idea for Fruitville]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Sarasota City Commissioner Shannon Snyder often reminds us of that saying about kids: They say the darnedest things.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0509201326912/Our-View-Fruity-idea-for-Fruitville</link> 
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	<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Castaway]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0508201326880/Castaway</link> 
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	<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Our View: Onward with Atwell, Dorfman]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[You know the cliché: A picture is worth 1,000 words.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0502201326778/Our-View-Onward-with-Atwell-Dorfman</link> 
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	<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Our View: Panhandler paradise no more]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the crafty law drafting of Sarasota City Attorney Robert Fournier, the Sarasota City Commission outlawed panhandling Tuesday on many of the city’s busiest streets and roadways.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0425201326629/Our-View-Panhandler-paradise-no-more</link> 
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	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Castaway]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0424201326579/Castaway</link> 
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	<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Our View: How to stop panhandlers]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[It's probably safe to say a lot of Sarasotans curse Michael Barfield, the face of the American Civil Liberties Union in Sarasota.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0418201326456/Our-View-How-to-stop-panhandlers</link> 
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	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Thank you to the firefighters; The DNA of politicians; County grant helped neighborhood]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0418201326449/Letters-to-the-Editor</link> 
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	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Castaway]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0417201326419/Castaway</link> 
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	<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Our View: 100 years of income taxes]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[As the annual Day of Tyranny approaches, the dreaded April 15 Tax Day, on this 100th year anniversary of the personal income tax, it’s fitting to remind ourselves of its heritage — who did it, how it came about and why.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0410201326259/Our-View-100-years-of-income-taxes</link> 
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	<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Our View: Watchdog for human rights]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, is describing how he has spent the past 15 years circling the globe; sitting face to face, looking eye to eye with the world's most powerful heads of state; delivering the message incessantly and emphatically: Iran cannot have WMDs.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0403201326093/Our-View-Watchdog-for-human-rights</link> 
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	<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Our View: A Passover / Easter reminder]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it was providential that the stomping on Jesus incident at Florida Atlantic University surfaced this week — the holiest week of the year for Christians and Jews.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/sarasota/Opinion/0328201325963/Our-View-A-Passover-Easter-reminder</link> 
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	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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