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         <title><![CDATA[Housing aid bill essential]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_9204614?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[So much for the greater York County area being immune to a general decline in housing prices linked to the national mortgage financing crisis.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/09/2008 02:49:54 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dog law reform overdue]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_9193201?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Support throughout the state and nation is growing for Gov. Ed Rendell's attempt to bring Pennsylvania's rules on commercial dog breeding into the 21st century and to crack down on what long has been the state's dirty little secret: puppy mill operations, concentrated mainly in neighboring Lancaster County.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/08/2008 02:47:20 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Marriage curb fails, thankfully]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_9180809?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Sensing the political winds were not in their favor, Republican state senators dedicated to enshrining discrimination in Pennsylvania's constitution on Tuesday tabled a bill that would ban same-sex marriage and civil unions.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/07/2008 02:57:20 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Cutting ranks of taxmen]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_9169332?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[It's a staggering number to consider: 2,900 separate taxing jurisdictions within the state of Pennsylvania -- in York County alone, 16 school districts.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/06/2008 02:49:54 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fire department merger welcome]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_9158294?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thumbs Up to the inauguration Monday of York Area United Fire and Rescue, the long-awaited merger of fire companies from Spring Garden and Springettsbury townships.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/05/2008 02:49:56 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Time to bar those robocalls]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_9131625?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[If the Pennsylvania House acts with due dispatch, there's a chance you'll be able to eat your evening meals the remainder of this election year without a slew of those very personal -- yet recorded -- political phone calls soliciting your November vote.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/02/2008 03:03:10 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Tighten abuse reporting]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_9118648?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania comes off poorly in a report by two respected child advocacy groups that accuse the Keystone State and others of failing to release sufficient information regarding life-threatening child abuse cases, mostly because of secretive policies that put confidentiality above child welfare.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[05/01/2008 02:53:14 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Backward ruling on voter ID]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_9106077?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[The cherished concept of individual participatory democracy took an undeserved slap in the face on Monday from the U.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[04/30/2008 02:56:41 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Trucking against inaction]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_9094203?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[They traveled in tight convoy, 350 vehicles strong, Monday morning down Route 15 in northern York County.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[04/29/2008 02:55:34 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Voters are primary winners]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_9083198?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thumbs Up -- way up -- to those York County voters who showed up at the polls last Tuesday to play their part in the democratic process.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[04/28/2008 02:51:35 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA['Design' gets constitutional slapdown]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_3330495?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[If some former members of the Dover Area School District board feel like hiding under a rock today, it's understandable. The board's blatant attempt last year to introduce religion -- in the guise of intelligent design -- into a science class received a stern constitutional slapdown yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones III.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[12/21/2005 04:36:40 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[New Dover board's task not enviable]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_3198410?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Call it a victory by design -- the design of voters' intelligence -- putting the entire Dover CARES slate on the Dover Area School District board in yesterday's election.  The new board members' task is not enviable. Overcoming what for the community has developed into a national embarrassment -- the previous board's inclusion of intelligent design into the high school curriculum and the resultant federal lawsuit by 11 parents -- will be their first priority.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[11/15/2005 05:11:16 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Not enough snake oil to go around]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_3131330?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Creationism, intelligent design, the truth of the "revealed word" -- whatever one wishes to call it -- obviously has more reincarnations than the Hindu pantheon of gods and proves there's always a crowd clamoring for more snake oil.  In their zeal, lemming-like creationists and their ilk manage -- through the wonders of a media-centered civilization -- to continue to wedge their purely religious agenda into scientific discussion and education.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[10/20/2005 01:54:31 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[A freedom is threatened ]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_00012765606?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[If you have ever scanned a listing of arrests and citations in your local paper or were part of group to challenge a new subdivision or shopping mall, if you wondered how much a local school superintendent earns, or if you're a business that's looked over a state or federal agency's contract bids, you've relied on a principle of American government called "Freedom of Information."  It's the principle that says, with few exceptions, we're entitled to know what people in government know.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[08/25/2005 05:46:19 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Your right to know is eroding ]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://yorkdispatch.inyork.com/yd/local/ci_00012767875?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Sometimes it's as close to home as the cop at the service desk who asks you why you want to see the incident report you asked for instead of just giving it to you. Or the city council members who gather at the local coffee shop to hash out how they'll keep a political pal on the payroll. Or the school board members who plot in executive session to thwart an investigation of a teacher accused of sexually abusing children.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[08/25/2005 05:46:19 PM GMT]]></pubDate>
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