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	<description>Here are snippets from the three most-recent postings. Click an article title below to read more.</description>
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		<title>Onward Oregon Blog is Retiring</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello authors and subscribers to the Onward Oregon Blog,
After two and a half years online, our Blog is going away. We&#8217;ll really, it&#8217;s morphing. Today we are quietly launching Onward Oregon Dialog. All previous blog posts will still be online, but the Blog is no longer linked from the Onward Oregon site and there will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/onward-oregon-blog-is-retiring/</link>
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		<title>The Fighter With the Hard Left Hook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Novick is a political activist and former environmental lawyer, and a 2008 Democratic candidate for the Senate seat now held by Republican Gordon Smith.  
From Wikipedia:

Novick was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1963. His parents, a waitress and a union organizer, moved his family to Cottage Grove, Oregon, in 1973.
Novick was born [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/the-fighter-with-the-hard-left-hook/</link>
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		<title>Money in Politics, Continued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At noon on Friday, March 14th, Lane County Commissioner Pete Sorenson and Gary Blackmer, auditor of the City of Portland, will speak to the City Club of Eugene at the Eugene Athletic Club on 10th and Willamette on Voter-Owned Elections. Commissioner Sorenson is the principal author of The Oregon Voter Owned Elections Act, proposed for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/money-in-politics-continued/</link>
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		<title>Energy Watch, March, 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bits and Pieces on EB last month:
A. “Most analysts continue to maintain that the 19 percent increase in oil prices during the past month is not supported by fundamentals and is largely driven by speculators fleeing the sagging equities markets&#8230;.
B. . . . . crude is now selling for $40 a barrel or 95 cents [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/energy-watch-march-2008/</link>
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		<title>Money and Politics, Part IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of this writing there are 143 Initiatives (on 3/5/08 there are 155) proposed for the November ballot. That means they are registered with the Secretary of State and are authorized to collect the signatures of  82,769 voters registered in Oregon. Only if they obtain the required number of signatures will they make it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/money-and-politics-part-iv/</link>
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		<title>Coming to an Intersection Near You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Salem will soon have red light cameras installed, Portland has had them for some time. A sense of outrage about the practice is building momentum, to the dismay of bloated bureaucracies that have come to depend on Oregon’s drivers as a cash cow. It might come as a surprise to learn that the timing of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/coming-to-an-intersection-near-you/</link>
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		<title>The Bush junta&#8217;s and Gordon Smith&#8217;s idea of supporting the troops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A distant friend and former co-worker who knows I&#8217;m in Veterans for Peace sent this and asked me if I could explain it to her.  I sure can&#8217;t, but it doesn&#8217;t surprise me a bit.
Okay.  So there&#8217;s this big article in the paper and I get a notice from the school . . [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/the-bush-juntas-idea-of-supporting-the-troops/</link>
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		<title>Money and Politics, Part III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was but a stripling I thought about money. Probably because I’d read a book by Dostoevsky that talked about how to become wealthy. No sweat if you had wealthy parents; otherwise it took a lot of single-minded, dedicated work. Closed out a lot of attractive options. Seemed a severe limitation on one’s life. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/money-and-politics-part-iii/</link>
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		<title>The Power of Inspiration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By the end of the writer’s strike, authors had triumphed against media conglomerates and raised awareness of intellectual property. The goal was securing rights for digital media, but the withering vacuum of content also signified the power wielded by the pen. 
From thefreelibrary.com:

For Thomas Jefferson, the pen truly was mightier than the sword. From his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/the-audacity-of-inspiration/</link>
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		<title>Money in Politics, Part Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You are offered an opportunity to comment at the bottom of every piece appearing in this blog. Matters being addressed here tend to be of a controversial nature. We’re not hearing much from the readership. For instance, do you want public financing of political campaigns, yes or no? If yes, how much do you think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.onwardoregon.org/money-in-politics-part-two/</link>
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