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	<title>Life on the Outside &#187; Politics</title>
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	<description>Living in an alternate universe</description>
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		<title>Time for a Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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My Summer Vacation &#8230; in a Third World Country
A few weeks ago I got a tip about a former Berthoud resident, whose father still lives in the area, who traveled to Honduras shortly after President Zelaya was ousted. Within 24 hours, I was able to interview the young man, a former LDS missionary named Neil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karma&#8217;s a Bitch</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 04:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under the guise of working as a newspaper reporter, I have been covering the economic issues smaller towns along the Colorado Front Range have been experiencing. The Berthoud community in particular has seen several businesses, some that have been around for years and were well known and well liked, go by the wayside.
At first I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Vote or Not To Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is from my twice-monthly column,&#8221;It&#8217;s News to Me,&#8221; in the Berthoud Recorder.. This column will be published on Oct. 30, 2008
 
I have a confession to make. When I was younger and, of course, far less wise than I am now, I did something I really shouldn’t have. I’m not proud of it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Can See Clearly Now&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I attended a business dinner that was, as I had expected it be, generally boring. The one exception to this being a conversation I had with Caroline Creager, owner of the Berthoud Athletic Club, and former classmate of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Creager had just come from filming at the Fox News channel in [...]]]></description>
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