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			<title><![CDATA[Falk should have been at 911 meeting]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//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//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[State Debate: Confiscate vehicles of third-time drunk drivers, says Eau Clair Leader-Telegram]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=286096</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//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[State Debate: Don&#39;t fall for stimulus check scams, says the Sheboygan Press]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=285906</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Don&#39;t fall victim to stimulus scams, cautions the Sheboygan Press. The economic stimulus refund checks are arriving and the scam artists and identity thieves are trying to pounce.  Many people have already received phone calls from people claiming to be from the IRS asking for their Social Security number and bank account information. The caller claims that the information is needed before the stimulus check can be sent out. Others have received e-mails asking them ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Barbara Quirk: Beware of notch baby scam]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=285821</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ These guys are not exactly snake oil salesmen, but their tactics are verifiably shady. They prey on vulnerable older Americans with misinformation and solicitation of money. They also misrepresent the positions of government leaders while promising to influence hikes in Social Security payments.  Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin&#39;s office has recently received a number of calls from Social Security beneficiaries who believe they are not receiving fair Social Security payment. These people have been asked through mailings to ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Quirk]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-11T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rosa Brooks: Hillary&#39;s &#39;right&#39; not the right thing]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=285891</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Is it finally time for Sen. Hillary Clinton to give up?  After Tuesday&#39;s North Carolina and Indiana primaries, Sen. Barack Obama has added to his virtually insurmountable lead in delegates and the popular vote, but Clinton&#39;s still hanging in there. Depending on your political preferences, she&#39;s like the Energizer Bunny or Rocky -- or the zombies in &quot;Night of the Living Dead.&quot;  I know, I know, Clinton has a right to stay in the race. In fact, ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rosa Brooks]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Deb Price: Sneakiness wins in Michigan court]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=285892</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ When Michigan voters headed to the polls in 2004 to decide the fate of a proposed amendment to the state constitution, they&#39;d been told the following by its lead proponent:  &quot;(This) has nothing to do with taking benefits away. This is about marriage between a man and a woman,&quot; said Marlene Elwell, campaign director of Citizens for the Protection of Marriage.  CPM&#39;s Web site declared the group&#39;s purpose was &quot;for defining marriage as the union of one ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deb Price]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ellen R. Malcolm: Quitters never win]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=285893</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ When I was growing up in the 1960s, I wanted to play basketball. The rules said girls could dribble only three steps and then had to pass the ball. And we weren&#39;t allowed to cross the half-court line. It&#39;s a wonder our fans (our mothers) could stay awake when a typical game&#39;s final score was 14-10.  It&#39;s remarkable that my generation of women entered the work force and began to compete in business, politics and the ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ellen R. Malcolm]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-12T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Nichols: Why Obama will win Wisconsin]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=285772</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee for president, and he will win the critical swing state of Wisconsin by a comfortable margin.  That may seem like a bold prediction. But it was actually confirmed last week, when Obama had his best day on the campaign trail since he swept Wisconsin&#39;s Democratic presidential primary in February with 58 percent of the vote.  Obama went into the North Carolina and Indiana primaries with serious challenges to overcome. He ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Nichols]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-10T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fixing loophole in corporate tax law overdue]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//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[E.J. Dionne: Newt knows attacking Obama not enough]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=285648</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama&#39;s victory in the North Carolina primary was actually the second important election result for his campaign this month.  The first, which has not received enough notice, was the triumph of Louisiana Democrat Don Cazayoux in the race for an open U.S. House seat despite an aggressive Republican campaign to link the moderate Cajun to Obama, liberalism and high taxes.  That the Obama link did not bring down Cazayoux in a district that voted ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[E.J. Dionne]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Fabu: Obama has already won]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=285646</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ If I weren&#39;t black in America, I couldn&#39;t believe the twists and turns of the Democratic presidential primary contest. Being black, free and over 21, I&#39;m not shocked at the Hillary Clinton campaign.  When I was a young woman voting in Tennessee, there was always primary and election fraud to keep out anyone who wasn&#39;t white. Now that I&#39;m a mature woman voting in Wisconsin, Madison has both city and county elected women officials. Citizens here ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Fabu]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-09T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[What Do You Think? Should Hillary Clinton quit the presidential race?]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=285642</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Should Hillary Clinton quit the presidential race?  &quot;I&#39;m conflicted about that. I&#39;ve been an Obama supporter but I think she has the right to campaign until the convention. I don&#39;t know if that&#39;s in the best interest of the party but what matters is how she runs her campaign. If she starts taking cheap shots at Obama, that could damage his campaign in the general election and that would be bad.&quot;  Kate Price  student  Madison  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ***************  &quot;Yes. I don&#39;t ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Murphy]]></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//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//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[Russ Feingold: Torture memo just one example of Bush&#39;s hidden laws]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=285470</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration recently announced it will allow select members of Congress to read Justice Department legal opinions about the CIA&#39;s controversial detainee interrogation program that have been hidden from Congress until now. But as the administration allows a glimpse of this secret law -- and it is law -- we are left wondering what other laws it is still keeping under lock and key.  It&#39;s a given in our democracy that laws should be a ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[Russ Feingold]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-08T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Investigate, fix 911 flaws]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//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//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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			<title><![CDATA[Reject GOP&#39;s voter suppression scheme]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=284929</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ State Rep. Jeff Stone, a Milwaukee County Republican who represents a traditionally Democratic district, has a plan to keep his seat in the Legislature.  Stone wants to make voting harder -- in some cases, impossible -- for young people, the elderly, the poor, the disabled, people of color and members of other demographic groups that tend to back Democrats.  As soon as the U.S. Supreme Court issued a wrong-headed decision upholding Indiana&#39;s restrictive voter identification law, Stone ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-06T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[More food, less war]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=284931</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Gimmicky and self-serving responses to the global food crisis are coming from every direction.  Opponents of ethanol blame U.S. farmers for diverting corn to biofuel production. But the people who are rioting in Africa and Asia are demanding rice -- their staple -- not corn.  The Bush administration wants new free-trade pacts. But the U.N. says that corporate globalization has made it harder for farmers in the developing world to produce the food their countries need.  What&#39;s a ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-06T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Decriminalize marijuana]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=284915</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin has long been a leader in the fight for sane drug policies. So we hope that she will sign on to legislation proposed by Rep. Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who has emerged as a key member of the House Democratic leadership team, that would decriminalize marijuana.  With backing from Texas Republican Ron Paul, a 2008 presidential candidate, Frank&#39;s HR 5843 seeks to eliminate all federal penalties, including arrest, jail time and ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[An editorial]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-06T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[State Debate: a 5/6 roundup of editorials]]></title>
			<link>http://madison.com/tct/opinion//index.php?ntid=284945</link>
			<description><![CDATA[ Fight to the finish may not be bad for Dems, says the Green Bay Press-Gazette.   As Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton beat each other up in the battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, Republicans have been rubbing their hands with glee. But the Democratic nominee will benefit from the extended weeks of public exposure and the extra campaign seasoning.  We can&#39;t help but recall the 8th Congressional District race of 2006, when Steve Kagen emerged ... ]]></description>
			<dc:creator><![CDATA[The Capital Times]]></dc:creator>
			<pubDate>2008-05-06T05:00:00Z</pubDate>
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