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		<title>Making Norwalk Bike &amp; Pedestrian Friendly</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/09/making-norwalk-bike-pedestrian-friendly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave McCarthy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The importance of bike and ped planning to create a livable, walkable and bikeable city became very evident to me today.  Having previously risked life and limb on an extended walking tour of my part of the city, I know the hazards of side view mirrors and speeders of every sort.  Of course, most every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kimmel On Slow Development</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/05/kimmel-on-slow-development/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2011 00:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Kimmel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The saga of Norwalk’s redevelopment projects has been front-page news since early spring.  The first article (The Hour, March 20) was about the Spinnaker Company requesting more time for the northern portion of its District 95/7 SoNo project, which in year’s past went by the mundane name of Reed Putnam.
According to the story, zoning commissioners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victor Cavallo on Let&#8217;s Not Encourage Theft of Services</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/05/victor-cavallo-on-lets-not-encourage-theft-of-services/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 14:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Garfunkel, who is the declared democratic candidate for mayor of Norwalk, has recently made unfortunate public comments accusing the incumbent Mayor of misusing his office in the Tanya McDowell fraudulent enrollment case. He&#8217;s not been very specific about his allegations, but I deduce from his comments that Mr. Garfunkel, among other things,  is blaming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marc Bradley On Politics of Decency</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/05/marc-bradley-on-politics-of-decency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 19:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Politics of Decency
 
By:  Marc Bradley
Norwalk Democratic Town Committee, Chairman
 
The recent arrest and ensuing felony larceny charges filed against Tanya McDowell – the single, homeless mother of a five-year-old Norwalk student – should challenge all of us to consider exactly what our government is in place to do.
Although the circumstances leading up to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David McCarthy on Older Americans Month</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/04/david-mccarthy-on-older-americans-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 20:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[John F. Kennedy, a member of our “Greatest Generation” and the man who led us to put a man on the moon, also designated May as Senior Citizen Month beginning in 1963.  17 years later in 1980, Jimmy Carter changed it to Older Americans Month.  In 2011, this celebration is especially important for Norwalk.  We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haynie on Education Gap</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/04/haynie-on-education-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MAKING A CASE FOR SB929—AN ACT CONCERNING CLOSING THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT GAP
 Connecticut has the largest Achievement Gap in reading among low income children and their more affluent peers in the nation.  Between 1998 and 2009, Connecticut’s neediest children showed no improvement on the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), a test that compares the reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kimmel on Waxing Nostalgic</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/04/kimmel-on-waxing-nostalgic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Kimmel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently accused of “waxing nostalgic” for the administration of Alex Knopp. I found the charge, which was made by a prominent Republican, amusing because the expression generally refers to the tendency of people to look back to better times when things are not going well in the present.
The reason for the “accusation” was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kimmel On &#8216;Hole in the Donut&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/04/kimmel-on-hole-in-the-donut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourct.com/2011/04/kimmel-on-hole-in-the-donut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 12:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Kimmel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bruce Kimmel
I first heard Norwalk characterized as the “hole in the donut” in the late 1990s, when I was a Democratic member of the Common Council. Since the only donuts I ever liked were Cream and Boston Cream, neither of which has a hole, I had to smile before trying to figure out what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest View: Transportation and Parking by David McCarthy</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2011/02/guest-view-transportation-and-parking-by-david-mccarthy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transportation and Parking by David McCarthy
Recently, I had the opportunity to appear before the Transportation Committee of the General Assembly to testify in support of a proposed bill concerning the availability of Parking Spaces on the New Haven line and its branches.
The life of the rail commuter is difficult in normal times and has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guest View: Regional Thinking</title>
		<link>http://www.yourct.com/2010/12/guest-view-regional-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>turfgrrl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David McCarthy
Life in southwestern Connecticut is changing rapidly and not necessarily for the better.  The economic crisis has hit us hard and solutions leading to real sustainable economic development are in short supply.  If we do not improve the prospects for young workers, they will continue to abandon the area in favor of more [...]]]></description>
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