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			<title><![CDATA[Kohl, Feingold must oppose media consolidation]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=286530</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ On issues of media consolidation and monopoly, Wisconsin Sens. Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold have &quot;gotten it&quot; for a long time.  Kohl, as a key player on the Senate subcommittee that deals with antitrust issues, was a vital voice in the fight against the move in 2003 by the Federal Communications Commission to eliminate rules that guarantee competition in local media markets. A letter from the senator and a Republican colleague outlined bipartisan concern regarding the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Van Hollen needs to stop secrecy]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=286469</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, whom we praised last week for his opinion that Wisconsin&#39;s openness laws aren&#39;t trumped by the federal government, is starting to look more than a little ridiculous on another openness front.  On the one hand, Van Hollen says that he is opposed to official secrecy that locks citizens out of the process.  On the other hand, his response to the state&#39;s highest-profile crime in the past year -- the October murders of ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[State Debate: Legislature closes a tax loophole, notes the Kenosha News]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=286495</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Legislature closes a tax loophole, notes the Kenosha News.  Led by Sen. Bob Wirch, D-Kenosha, and Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison,&nbsp;the Legislature closed a loophole that had been used by Wal-Mart and other big companies. Companies would form what is known as &quot;captive real estate investment trusts&quot; as subsidiaries that owned their stores. Then the company would pay exorbitant rents to the subsidiaries, which would increase their business expenses and reduce their taxable income. Wal-Mart ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-15T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Elect or appoint? We&#39;re with the chief]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=286157</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O&#39;Connor, the former Arizona state legislator who was appointed to the nation&#39;s highest court because of her personal and political connections to former Chief Justice William Rehnquist and other key Republicans, came to Wisconsin last week and suggested that this state should stop electing judges.  O&#39;Connor favors a system like the one that put her on the Supreme Court: an insider-run process where who you know matters more than what ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Soglin should lead 911 Center investigation]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=286138</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Dane County Supervisor John Hendrick is absolutely right when he says that an independent investigation of the troubled Dane County 911 Center is needed.  And the investigation should not stop there.  Each day brings new evidence to suggest that:  1. The 911 Center mishandled a call from UW student Brittany Zimmermann, who was murdered April 2.  2. Investigations of that murder and others have been plagued by miscommunications.  3. Top elected and appointed officials have been more concerned about avoiding ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Falk should have been at 911 meeting]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=285981</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Last week, we gave Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk credit for issuing a public apology to the family of Brittany Zimmermann, the University of Wisconsin student who was murdered a month ago, for the mishandling by the county&#39;s 911 Center of what appears to have been a call for help from Zimmermann.  We also gave Falk credit for publicly pressing 911 Center director Joe Norwick to address troubles within an agency that failed in its most ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[State Debate: Confiscate vehicles of third-time drunk drivers, says the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=286120</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Confiscate vehicles of third-time drunk drivers, says the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram.  There are new calls to &quot;get tough&quot; on impaired drivers after a former physician with three drunken driving convictions slammed his Cadillac Escalade into a stopped vehicle driven by Oconomowoc High School Vice Principal Jennifer Bukosky. The crash killed Bukosky; her 10-year-old daughter, Courtney; and Bukosky&#39;s unborn child.  The accident has triggered an effort to have people convicted of drunken driving three times treated ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-13T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Med Flight deserves reverence]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=285889</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ In Australia, where the development of an air ambulance service 80 years ago made medical care available to the vast remote inland region known as the Outback, people have a reverence for that country&#39;s Royal Flying Doctor Service.  Folk songs are still sung about John Flynn, the founder of the service, whose image is found on Australian bank notes. Sir Robert Menzies, the Australian prime minister at mid-century, once said that the Flying Doctor Service represented ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fixing loophole in corporate tax law overdue]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=285653</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ It&#39;s been five years since The Capital Times&#39; Mike Ivey exposed how multi-state Wisconsin corporations use a loophole to escape paying their full share of state taxes.  Ivey&#39;s series of stories took a look at how the larger banks, in particular, set up paper subsidiaries in states like Nevada that don&#39;t tax the income of corporations, then transfer the bulk of their profits there and report little or no income in Wisconsin, thereby avoiding most of ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Loving and the right to marry]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=285473</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Mildred Loving has died at 68. The aptly named Virginia woman&#39;s courageous struggle to strike down laws barring interracial marriage led to a landmark 1967 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down state miscegenation laws.  Still a relatively young woman, Loving was a living link to the central struggles of the civil rights era. And she taught new generations of Americans that the march of freedom is not yet finished.  After Mildred Delores Jeter, a young woman ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[State Debate: Before there was Brett, there was Bart, the Green Bay Press-Gazette reminds us]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=285537</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Before there was Brett, there was Bart, the Green Bay Press-Gazette reminds us.  The tears were genuine as Bart Starr, 74, spoke May 1&nbsp;to the National Day of Prayer breakfast crowd in Green Bay about what he sees as a moral vacuum in contemporary society.  &quot;Before Brett Favre was born, Bart Starr was leading the Packers to five NFL championships and converting the smallest town with a major league sports franchise into Titletown USA. Starr&#39;s accomplishments ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Investigate, fix 911 flaws]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=285340</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ &quot;911 is a joke,&quot; rapped the seminal hip-hop group Public Enemy almost two decades ago.  The point was that, for all the hype, supposedly sophisticated communications systems didn&#39;t get cops to inner-city neighborhoods any quicker.  In Madison, in recent weeks, there has been reason to reprise the trenchant social commentary of old because, when it mattered most, 911 was a joke.  When a call came from the phone of University of Wisconsin student Brittany Zimmermann to the 911 ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[State Debate: Superdelegates should back Obama, says Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion/editorial//index.php?ntid=285360</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Superdelegates should come out for Barack Obama and end the bloodletting, says the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.  &quot;We had urged superdelegates to wait until the Democratic National Convention to commit. But it makes little sense to wait that long now.&quot;  The number of uncommitted superdelegates (about 270) exceeds the number of delegates at stake in the remaining six contests (217) through June 3. Because the delegates will be divided proportionately, there is no way either Obama, who ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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