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	<title>GULFPORT WATCHDOG</title>
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		<title>WATCHDOG TAKES A BREAK!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/07/watchdog-takes-a-break/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/07/watchdog-takes-a-break/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 21:35:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[06-11]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In just over two years of life, the Gulfport Watchdog has been part of my life.  With the help of a bunch of “dogs” out and about in Gulfport, we were able to get underneath the headlines and behind the scenes in order to bring Gulfport citizens the whole story of what was actually going [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>PIA&#8217;S SAVES FOODIE FROM GASTRONOMIC MELTDOWN</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/06/pias-saves-foodie-from-gastronomic-meltdown/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/06/pias-saves-foodie-from-gastronomic-meltdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foodie Adventurer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foodie Alert]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=986</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Talkin&#8217; World War III Blues, Bob Dylan, last verse: Well, now time passed and now it seems Everybody&#8217;s having them dreams. Everybody sees themselves walkin&#8217; around with no one else. Half of the people can be part right all of the time, Some of the people can be all right part of the time, But [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/06/absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/06/absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:27:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[06-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=981</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been on the road now since May 10 and I’m getting sick of living out of a suitcase.  I’m also missing Gulfport and the folks we’ve come to know and love a lot. For the past 5 weeks we’ve, (my wife Bev and I), been traveling around New England and bunking in with the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>GULFPORT’S SILVER LINING!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/06/gulfport%e2%80%99s-silver-lining/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/06/gulfport%e2%80%99s-silver-lining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[06-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the old adage, “Every cloud has a silver lining,” goes, the gloomy Gulfport Budget may have a silver lining too.  Tough times often allow the truly inspired and innovative administrator to do some outside the box thinking that results in more or less permanent changes that not only serve to solve the immediate crises [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>MORE “NO BRAINER” CUTS AND CASH!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/06/more-%e2%80%9cno-brainer%e2%80%9d-cuts-and-cash/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/06/more-%e2%80%9cno-brainer%e2%80%9d-cuts-and-cash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:23:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>WebDog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[06-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In our previous submission, we talked about ways that the $1,650,000 budget shortfall could rather easily be reduced to around $295,000 without the necessity of touching the General Fund Surplus, raiding the General Employees Pension Stability Reserve or outsourcing the police dispatching function if the city Council had the wisdom and the political guts to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>CRUNCHING THE BUDGET CRUNCH!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/05/crunching-the-budget-crunch/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/05/crunching-the-budget-crunch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 21:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[05-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=967</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past three or four years our city revenues have been dropping like a rock and the end is not in sight.  Every year our City Manager has been directed by our City Council to come up with a budget that doesn’t result in loss of services, doesn’t raid our surpluses and lowers overall [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>TEAR DOWN THAT WALL!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/05/tear-down-that-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/05/tear-down-that-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 03:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[05-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=962</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost everybody remembers the famous words of President Ronald Reagan that led to the destruction of the Berlin Wall and for all intents and purposes led to the end of the Cold War.  Now it seems that based on a series of comments on the electronic social media, letters to the editor and in general [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>WHEN WHAT DOESN’T GO UP MUST COME DOWN!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/05/when-what-doesn%e2%80%99t-go-up-must-come-down/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/05/when-what-doesn%e2%80%99t-go-up-must-come-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 09:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[05-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years our City government has responded to what they perceived to be the wishes of the people, i.e. that everything in Gulfport must stay the same, nothing important must change.  Even though the City had changed radically from the 1950’s to the present day, (thank goodness), somehow Gulfport had reached a place where growth [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>ACCESSIBILITY LAWS CRAMP LIMITED GROWTH PLANS!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/05/accessibility-laws-cramp-limited-growth-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/05/accessibility-laws-cramp-limited-growth-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 02:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[05-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few years, our Community Development Department spent a ton of time and money in developing a so-called “overlay zone” in both Downtown Gulfport and the 49th Street Area.  Among other things it allows the conversion of single family homes into locations for home based businesses in the overlay zones, (many restrictions apply). [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>RATING THE RATERS</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/04/rating-the-raters/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/04/rating-the-raters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[04-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last September when our City Council usually evaluates our City Manager they declined to do so since they said he had not served long enough to make a meaningful evaluation.  Vague rumblings about setting up an evaluation process were made.  Apparently the decision was made to hold off an evaluation until this coming September, a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>60</slash:comments>
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		<title>FOODIE TUNE UPS</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/04/foodie-tune-ups/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/04/foodie-tune-ups/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Foodie Adventurer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foodie Alert]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=947</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’d swear some folks are in the wrong business. I leave some food-serving establishments in a numbing stupor of disbelief.  And I’m not talking about the sugar high from too many Shirley Temples.  In fact, they don’t even serve these to kids anymore.  According to the news, the chains are giving the kiddies the hard [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>PUBLIC COMMENTS: ARE THEY LISTENING?</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/04/public-comments-are-they-listening/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/04/public-comments-are-they-listening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[04-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our current City Council has made it a point to allow citizens to comment at Council Meetings including, for the first time, Workshop Meetings.  Those of us who attend meetings are happy that public access has improved, but we wonder if they really listen or are they just trying to appease the political activists. At [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>GULFPORT: A SLUM CITY?</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/04/gulfport-a-slum-city/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/04/gulfport-a-slum-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[04-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=938</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Five years ago there were signs of improvement all over Gulfport especially in the housing stock south of Gulfport Boulevard.  People were buying homes all over town at ever increasing prices.  Home improvements were a flourishing industry and our little city was taking on the warm and happy look of prosperity. Building Code enforcement was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE AND WORK!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/03/a-better-place-to-live-and-work/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/03/a-better-place-to-live-and-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[03-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=934</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there anyone reading this who doesn&#8217;t wish things could be better where they live and work?  Who doesn&#8217;t want their city or neighborhood to be better than it is?  Well, I&#8217;ve heard a lot of people in Gulfport say that they don&#8217;t want things to be better, they just want things to stay the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>COUNCIL TO OPEN UP WORKSHOPS!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/03/council-to-open-up-workshops/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2011/03/council-to-open-up-workshops/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 10:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[03-11]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://gulfportwatchdog.com/?p=760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a March 24 review of City Council Rules, (something we fought for), our newly organized City Council decided on some changes to be ratified at a regular meeting, including the right of citizens to speak at City Council Workshops, (something else we fought for).  Who says citizen activism doesn&#8217;t accomplish anything? Workshops have long [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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