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		<title>Lubbock County Plays “Hide The Ball”</title>
		<link>http://lookingatlubbock.com/2010/07/23/lubbock-county-plays-%e2%80%9chide-the-ball%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my tenure on the Freedom of Information of Texas Foundation Board, the City of Lubbock had a reputation for taking steps to keep information away from its citizens, one time even telling a group of college students that their request for information would cost upwards of $350,000! It looks now as if the county [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lookingatlubbock.com&#038;blog=9214293&#038;post=352&#038;subd=lookingatlubbock&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Season In Full Bloom</title>
		<link>http://lookingatlubbock.com/2010/07/22/budget-season-in-full-bloom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Sanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lubbock City Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time of the year is a lot of fun for folks who enjoy following local politics and seeing how our elected officials struggle to explain why their entity needs more funding in order to operate. Today, the Lubbock City Council will get its first look at its growing budget for next year that will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lookingatlubbock.com&#038;blog=9214293&#038;post=349&#038;subd=lookingatlubbock&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Only A Lawyer Could Come Up With This Excuse</title>
		<link>http://lookingatlubbock.com/2010/07/20/only-a-lawyer-could-come-up-with-this-excuse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Sanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gary Koelder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hale County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week a jury in Hale County, just north of Lubbock, convicted County Commissioner Gary Koelder of theft after it was determined that he used county funds to purchase items for his personal vehicles. As I watched NewsChannel 11 report the story Monday night, I found myself laughing at diminutive criminal defense attorney Rob Hobson, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lookingatlubbock.com&#038;blog=9214293&#038;post=346&#038;subd=lookingatlubbock&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charter Proposal May Be Dead</title>
		<link>http://lookingatlubbock.com/2010/07/14/charter-proposal-may-be-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Sanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Charter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City of Lubbock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of folks, headed by former Mayor Alan Henry, has been working on proposing changes to Lubbock’s decades-old City Charter since January and finally has come up with a proposal to make to the Lubbock City Council. Many of the recommendations that the group will ask the City Council to present to voters for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lookingatlubbock.com&#038;blog=9214293&#038;post=340&#038;subd=lookingatlubbock&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liars, Damn Liars and Statistics</title>
		<link>http://lookingatlubbock.com/2010/07/13/liars-damn-liars-and-statistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Sanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FBI Crime Statistics, Fox News, El Paso, Media Matters, Phoenix, Juarez]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years Lubbock has gotten a bad rap in the media for &#8220;leading&#8221; the nation or state in so many different areas&#8211;from crime to drunkenness to teen pregnancies to STDs to younameit. It seems that in today&#8217;s world folks pushing an agenda can come up with numbers to support their particular position. It&#8217;s been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lookingatlubbock.com&#038;blog=9214293&#038;post=334&#038;subd=lookingatlubbock&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burning A Hole In Their Pocket</title>
		<link>http://lookingatlubbock.com/2010/07/12/burning-a-hole-in-their-pocket/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Sanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Council]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was a youngster and had a dollar or two in my jeans from mowing lawns or some other chores, I couldn&#8217;t wait to spend it. My mother would ask me to turn my pockets inside out because she wanted to make sure that the money hadn&#8217;t &#8220;burned a hole in your pocket.&#8221; After [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lookingatlubbock.com&#038;blog=9214293&#038;post=330&#038;subd=lookingatlubbock&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Numbers Don’t Add Up</title>
		<link>http://lookingatlubbock.com/2010/07/11/the-numbers-don%e2%80%99t-add-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Sanders</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lubbock Avalanche-Journal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[    My favorite newspaper had an article Sunday morning (http://lubbockonline.com/local-news/2010-07-11/decade-works-lubbock-county-jail-ready-business) that still has me scratching my head and wondering who to be upset with—the newspaper or Lubbock County.     In 2002 Lubbock voters, with the strong encouragement of The A-J&#8217;s editorial department, overwhelmingly approved an $82 million bond proposal to construct a new county jail near the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lookingatlubbock.com&#038;blog=9214293&#038;post=323&#038;subd=lookingatlubbock&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There Are No Secrets</title>
		<link>http://lookingatlubbock.com/2010/07/09/there-are-no-secrets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who enjoy watching how some governmental identities try to control their message, July 8, 2010, was an interesting day. Around 4 p.m. or so, KCBD/NewsChannel11 posted a story on its website reporting that the Lubbock Independent School District was going to propose a $220 million bond election for November (http://www.kcbd.com/global/story.asp?s=12776408) that would combine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lookingatlubbock.com&#038;blog=9214293&#038;post=319&#038;subd=lookingatlubbock&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe I Was Correct After All</title>
		<link>http://lookingatlubbock.com/2010/07/07/maybe-i-was-correct-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    With an oil pipeline developing a leak upstream, the woes of Lake Alan Henry, a proposed future water source for the City of Lubbock, continues.     I say proposed because the city has been working for approximately three decades to turn a hardscrabble area of land in Garza County into a lake that will provide water [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lookingatlubbock.com&#038;blog=9214293&#038;post=311&#038;subd=lookingatlubbock&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catching Up</title>
		<link>http://lookingatlubbock.com/2010/07/01/catching-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 12:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Sanders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[    One of the traits of a good blogger, if there is such a thing, is being disciplined enough to blog on a regular schedule so that the audience will become accustomed to looking at the blogger&#8217;s website and an audience can be built.     Looking at my last posting, written more than a month ago, certainly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lookingatlubbock.com&#038;blog=9214293&#038;post=307&#038;subd=lookingatlubbock&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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