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	<title><![CDATA[Castaway]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.]]></description> 
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	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Our View: Capitalize on the moment]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[The cloud of euphoria enveloping the Sarasota Ballet this week is well deserved. And it is not over the top to exclaim this tiny (in budget) but extraordinarily talented ballet company, Sarasota’s own, reached a historic high in its 26 years of existence this past weekend at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.]]></description> 
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	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[What should we believe?; Tyranny still exists]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/siesta-key/Opinion/0613201327541/Letters-to-the-Editor</link> 
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	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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	<title><![CDATA[Our View: D-Day: Memorial Day cont'd]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[There are 25 million living American veterans. Since Gen. George Washington commanded the Continental Army, 42 million Americans have served the colors. A million have been killed in its defense. Another million and a half wounded.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/siesta-key/Opinion/0605201327386/Our-View-D-Day-Memorial-Day-contd</link> 
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	<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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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/siesta-key/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[Castaway]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/siesta-key/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/siesta-key/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/siesta-key/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/siesta-key/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: 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/siesta-key/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/siesta-key/Opinion/0424201326579/Castaway</link> 
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	<pubDate>Wed, 24 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/siesta-key/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: 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/siesta-key/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/siesta-key/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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	<title><![CDATA[Castaway]]></title> 
	<description><![CDATA[Enjoy this week's Castaway cartoon.]]></description> 
	<link>http://www.yourobserver.com/news/siesta-key/Opinion/0327201325898/Castaway</link> 
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	<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0400</pubDate> 
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