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		<title>Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting Takes A Baseball Bat To The Otten Piñata</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has been dancing around the whispers of &#8220;Les Otten&#8221; and &#8220;the failure of American Ski Company&#8221;, hesitant to engage, or really hammer him on the subject.  Well &#8211; maybe not everyone &#8211; but the ...]]></description>
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		<title>Maine Needs A Governor Like Chris Christie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republican Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie has been making a lot of noise lately for doing something that was entirely unexpected:  being blunt, speaking truth, and pragmatically dealing with problems that his state ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pinetreepolitics.com/2010/03/10/maine-needs-a-governor-like-chris-christie/</link>
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		<title>Bill Clinton Hearts Libby Mitchell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cue the Welcome Back Kotter music baby &#8211; I&#8217;m have returned.
And no sooner do I get settled into my new job, than of all people, President William Jefferson Clinton, dives into the Maine gubernatorial race.
Sure ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pinetreepolitics.com/2010/03/09/bill-clinton-hearts-libby-mitchell/</link>
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		<title>Important Announcement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As my devoted readers have undoubtedly noticed, Pine Tree Politics has been on virtual autopilot for most of the last several weeks.  I haven&#8217;t had a chance to really dive into the minutia of Maine ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pinetreepolitics.com/2010/03/01/important-announcement/</link>
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		<title>Things, They Are A-Changing In The Republican Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Few would have believed it possible only a couple years ago, but the Republican Party is increasingly being made less hospitable for culture warriors.
I&#8217;ve been arguing since my days in college &#8211; which, looking back, ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pinetreepolitics.com/2010/02/23/things-they-are-a-changing-in-the-republican-party/</link>
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		<title>Snowe and Collins Vote For Cloture On Jobs Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;That is why jobs must be our No. 1 focus in 2010, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m calling for a new jobs bill tonight.&#8221;
Those were the words of President Barack Obama during his State of the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pinetreepolitics.com/2010/02/23/snowe-and-collins-vote-for-cloture-on-jobs-bill/</link>
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		<title>Steve Abbott Holds Online Issues Forum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have been complaining that you do not know what Republican Steve Abbott believes on key issues for Maine&#8217;s future, today was your day to ask him.
Abbott held what was billed ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pinetreepolitics.com/2010/02/22/steve-abbott-holds-online-issues-forum/</link>
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		<title>Snowe, Collins, and Reconciling the Stimulus Vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many Maine Republicans and Independents were deeply disappointed with Senator Snowe’s and Senator Collins’ votes in support of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, better known (except when driving through a handful of ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pinetreepolitics.com/2010/02/21/snowe-collins-and-reconciling-the-stimulus-vote/</link>
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		<title>What Candidate Donations Continue To Tell Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last October, I broke some news about candidate political giving.  We saw who gave little, who gave much and who people gave to.  This caused some trouble for Les Otten, who I pointed out gave ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pinetreepolitics.com/2010/02/19/what-candidate-donations-continue-to-tell-us/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming Republican Caucuses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Caucus season is in full swing, and more than a few people have emailed me asking me for dates and times for several of the upcoming Republican caucuses.
I have decided to just post up a ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pinetreepolitics.com/2010/02/16/upcoming-republican-caucuses/</link>
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