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        <name>Watertown Daily Times</name>
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    <title>WDT News Feed: Opinion</title>
    <updated>2012-02-05T04:07:00-05:00</updated>
    <rights>Copyright Watertown Daily Times. All rights reserved.</rights>
    <entry>
    <id>urn:publicid:watertowndailytimes.com:2012702049958</id>
    <title>Ballast rules</title>
    <updated>2012-02-03T17:54:33-05:00</updated>
    <published>2012-02-04T05:00:00-05:00</published>
    <rights>Copyright Watertown Daily Times. All rights reserved.</rights>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120204/OPINION01/702049958/"/>
    <category term="Opinion: Editorials"/>
    <summary type="xhtml">
        <apxh:div>There is no question that the state of New York should be vigilant about keeping invasive species out of its waterways.Yet reason and science must guide the process.</apxh:div>
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    <content type="xhtml">
        <apxh:div>There is no question that the state of New York should be vigilant about keeping invasive species out of its waterways.Yet reason and science must guide the process.</apxh:div>
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        <apcm:HeadLine>Ballast Rules</apcm:HeadLine>
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<entry>
    <id>urn:publicid:watertowndailytimes.com:2012702049960</id>
    <title>Health care law</title>
    <updated>2012-02-03T17:54:32-05:00</updated>
    <published>2012-02-04T05:00:00-05:00</published>
    <rights>Copyright Watertown Daily Times. All rights reserved.</rights>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120204/OPINION01/702049960/"/>
    <category term="Opinion: Editorials"/>
    <summary type="xhtml">
        <apxh:div>Now that the Obama administration has chosen not to implement the unworkable long-term care provision of the national health care law, the House move to repeal the provision makes sense.</apxh:div>
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        <apxh:div>Now that the Obama administration has chosen not to implement the unworkable long-term care provision of the national health care law, the House move to repeal the provision makes sense.</apxh:div>
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        <apcm:HeadLine>Health Care Law</apcm:HeadLine>
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<entry>
    <id>urn:publicid:watertowndailytimes.com:2012702049948</id>
    <title>Touch a life by visiting nursing home resident</title>
    <updated>2012-02-03T17:54:34-05:00</updated>
    <published>2012-02-04T05:00:00-05:00</published>
    <rights>Copyright Watertown Daily Times. All rights reserved.</rights>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120204/OPINION02/702049948/"/>
    <category term="Opinion: Letters to the Editor"/>
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        <apxh:div>My mother has been a resident of the Mercy Care Center nursing home since June 2011.</apxh:div>
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    <content type="xhtml">
        <apxh:div>My mother has been a resident of the Mercy Care Center nursing home since June 2011.</apxh:div>
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        <apcm:HeadLine>Touch A Life By Visiting Nursing Home Resident</apcm:HeadLine>
        <apcm:DownstyleHeadLine>Touch a life by visiting nursing home resident</apcm:DownstyleHeadLine>
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<entry>
    <id>urn:publicid:watertowndailytimes.com:2012702049950</id>
    <title>A lack of consideration</title>
    <updated>2012-02-03T17:54:34-05:00</updated>
    <published>2012-02-04T05:00:00-05:00</published>
    <rights>Copyright Watertown Daily Times. All rights reserved.</rights>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120204/OPINION02/702049950/"/>
    <category term="Opinion: Letters to the Editor"/>
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        <apxh:div>In regard to recent actions taken by three of our elected City Council members, I don&amp;#146;t know the city manager on a personal basis, only as city manager. She has kept the city going on a steady financial course for some years now. To be treated by...</apxh:div>
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    <content type="xhtml">
        <apxh:div>In regard to recent actions taken by three of our elected City Council members, I don&amp;#146;t know the city manager on a personal basis, only as city manager. She has kept the city going on a steady financial course for some years now. To be treated by...</apxh:div>
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        <apcm:HeadLine>A Lack Of Consideration</apcm:HeadLine>
        <apcm:DownstyleHeadLine>A lack of consideration</apcm:DownstyleHeadLine>
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<entry>
    <id>urn:publicid:watertowndailytimes.com:2012702049952</id>
    <title>Decision clears the way for safer Route 11</title>
    <updated>2012-02-03T18:13:24-05:00</updated>
    <published>2012-02-04T05:00:00-05:00</published>
    <rights>Copyright Watertown Daily Times. All rights reserved.</rights>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120204/OPINION02/702049952/"/>
    <category term="Opinion: Letters to the Editor"/>
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        <apxh:div>The state Department of Transportation deserves praise for its decision to spend $6.3 million on upgrade and improvement of U.S. Route 11. This decision was made in the face of intense political pressure from St. Lawrence County. For reasons that...</apxh:div>
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        <apxh:div>The state Department of Transportation deserves praise for its decision to spend $6.3 million on upgrade and improvement of U.S. Route 11. This decision was made in the face of intense political pressure from St. Lawrence County. For reasons that...</apxh:div>
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        <apcm:HeadLine>Decision Clears The Way For Safer Route 11</apcm:HeadLine>
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    <id>urn:publicid:watertowndailytimes.com:2012702049954</id>
    <title>Tired of highway litter</title>
    <updated>2012-02-03T17:54:33-05:00</updated>
    <published>2012-02-04T05:00:00-05:00</published>
    <rights>Copyright Watertown Daily Times. All rights reserved.</rights>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120204/OPINION02/702049954/"/>
    <category term="Opinion: Letters to the Editor"/>
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        <apxh:div>You are not going to get away with it. You are a litterbug, a noun, a person who throws his garbage, waste, his unwanted items onto the sides of a highway, in public places. That&amp;#146;s you, Mr. Litterbug. I&amp;#146;m so tired of picking up your garbage. I...</apxh:div>
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        <apxh:div>You are not going to get away with it. You are a litterbug, a noun, a person who throws his garbage, waste, his unwanted items onto the sides of a highway, in public places. That&amp;#146;s you, Mr. Litterbug. I&amp;#146;m so tired of picking up your garbage. I...</apxh:div>
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        <apcm:HeadLine>Tired Of Highway Litter</apcm:HeadLine>
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<entry>
    <id>urn:publicid:watertowndailytimes.com:2012702049956</id>
    <title>Staying home</title>
    <updated>2012-02-03T17:54:33-05:00</updated>
    <published>2012-02-04T05:00:00-05:00</published>
    <rights>Copyright Watertown Daily Times. All rights reserved.</rights>
    <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20120204/OPINION01/702049956/"/>
    <category term="Opinion: Editorials"/>
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        <apxh:div>Republican leaders in Florida expected the party to turn out in large numbers for the primary Tuesday.Instead, voting was down 14 percent from the 2008 primary, the Wall Street Journal noted.</apxh:div>
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        <apxh:div>Republican leaders in Florida expected the party to turn out in large numbers for the primary Tuesday.Instead, voting was down 14 percent from the 2008 primary, the Wall Street Journal noted.</apxh:div>
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