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    <title><![CDATA[GLBT award nominees sought]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199987.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[The 2010 Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Carolinas Gala Committee and the North Carolina Steering Committee are seeking nominations from residents of North and South Carolina for the annual Equality and Legacy/Trailblazer Awards.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199987</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[It's up to us]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/200008.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[What do these items have in common?]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/200008</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Churches give practical tips on keeping safe from H1N1]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/200003.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Sharing the peace or passing of the peace in the liturgy of Christian worship is a common practice in area congregations.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/200003</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Northgate]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199990.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[This letter was sent to Mayor Bil Bell and the Durham City Council:]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199990</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mayor, council incumbents coast]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199995.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Mayor Bill Bell and three incumbent City Council members won landslide re-elections Tuesday, each taking more than 71 percent of the vote.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[What happened to helping others?]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/200001.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[I cannot come to the banquet,]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/200001</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[A big night for Democrats]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/200000.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[What a night for North Carolina Democrats!]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/200000</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Kids Voting results are in]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/200002.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[The kids have spoken in Durham's 2009 Mayor and City Council Elections and the results may surprise you!]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/200002</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Former DSS director still wants to make a difference]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199978.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Dan Hudgins meets me in a white cap that says "Got Freedom?" across the top.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199978</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Words we need to hear]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199975.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[What did you hear about Obama's speech to the high schools? Did you know he had a cabinet member visit Southern High School that day? And that his speech was played live in our school auditorium?]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199975</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Big-time athletics 80 years later]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199982.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[American college athletics, a report says, is "a highly organized commercial enterprise."]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199982</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Keep electronic billboards out]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199944.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Having just driven back from Watauga County on Sunday evening, specifically picturesque Blowing Rock, I witnessed one of three electronic billboards. How unsightly and distracting it was.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199944</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Voter info can be found online]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199945.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Last year, North Carolina voters set record high turnout in the midst of a historic contest for the White House. But a year later, voting booths could be sadly silent in Chapel Hill and other cities across the state on Nov.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:00:01 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199945</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Another look at turnout]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199942.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[In his October 10 column Primary Turnout Sets "New Low" Jim Wise points out that $175,000 was spent on Durham's City Council primary election where only 5,988 individuals voted. The assumption is that $29.23 a vote is too much to spend.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:00:01 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199942</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Clinic provided lifelong lessons]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199939.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[The Emily Krzyzewski Center, a learning center that serves high-potential, economically disadvantaged students, hosted a free basketball clinic for local girls and boys on Saturday, Sept. 26. The center worked with Duke University and N.C.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:00:01 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199939</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Dell fiasco offers a warning in wooing]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199937.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Let's hope the state of North Carolina and the City of Winston-Salem learned from the multi-million dollar Dell debacle.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:00:51 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199937</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Leadership applications due]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199936.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[The Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce is accepting applications for its 38th annual Leadership Durham program.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199936</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Finding a middle ground on Halloween]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199932.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Instead of debating whether Halloween is a satanic holiday or merely a secular one, churches can find middle ground and "out-narrate" a negative perception of Halloween with the tradition of All Saints, says a Duke Divinity School professor.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:09:05 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199932</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Money up the creek]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199938.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Ellerbe (or Ellerbee - take your pick) Creek has been a point of contention here lately, with Northgate Park neighbors annoyed about a restoration plan that looks like 20 years of overgrown scrub and Wake County griping about how much crud it carries into their drinking water.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:00:36 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199938</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Residents do not]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199899.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[In regards to rezoning for "Treyburn Middle School," Snow Hill Road residents displayed "No School" signs. These signs may have misrepresented our intentions.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:43:03 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199899</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Low turnout not]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199900.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[What does voting do? It resolves the question: How will we make collective decisions?]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199900</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Music makes us richer]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199904.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[At a concert in Meymandi Hall on October 9, the North Carolina Symphony played the "Nimrod" movement of Elgar's "Enigma Variations" to commemorate the recent death of Maxine Swalin, the wife of long-time conductor Benjamin Swalin, and one of the stalwart supporters responsible for the very existence of our state symphony orchestra.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199904</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Marcia Owen: Connecting the dots]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199902.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Marcia Owen flips through the Google maps. Each page shows the area around Shepherd's House United Methodist Church at East Main and Driver streets, where she works.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199902</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Public invited to]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199909.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Certain dogs must be made of popping corn. As they bounce and spring themselves higher and higher I can't help but visualize microscopic kernels of Orville Redenbacher exploding in their muscle fibers.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:00:00 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199909</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Reception honors Watts Street pastor]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199867.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[A reception honoring the Rev. Mel Williams, pastor at Watts Street Baptist, on the 40th anniversary of his ordination as a minister will be held after the 11 a.m. worship service on Sunday, Oct. 25.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:41:37 EST]]></pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Repaying a debt to society]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199843.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[How much does it cost to pay a debt to society? Twenty years, maybe 30, or does it take the rest of one's life?]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:13:53 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199843</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Help plan future of Triangle transit]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199858.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[All Friends of Transit...]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:00:42 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199858</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[A timely demand for action on mental health]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199860.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[Advocates for people with mental illness, developmental disability or addiction have called for a special session of the General Assembly to prevent a collapse of the system that is supposed to provide services to some of the most vulnerable people in the state.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:59:07 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199860</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Bad votes make bad neighbors]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199859.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[As one of your neighbors in Durham, I thought you folks downstream from me ought to be filled in on what's happening up here to your drinking water sources.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:57:26 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199859</guid>
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    <title><![CDATA[Capt. Council has served city well]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedurhamnews.com/viewpoints/story/199809.html]]></link>
    <description><![CDATA[I very much appreciated your thoughtful coverage of the affair involving Police Captain B. J. Council in [the Saturday, Oct. 3] N&O.]]></description>
    <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:31:17 EST]]></pubDate>    <guid isPermaLink="false">www.thedurhamnews.com/199809</guid>
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