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	<title>GULFPORT WATCHDOG</title>
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		<title>TANGELO’S GRILLE OPENS IN GULFPORT!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/09/tangelo%e2%80%99s-grille-opens-in-gulfport/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/09/tangelo%e2%80%99s-grille-opens-in-gulfport/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[09-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After 23 successful years in Downtown St. Petersburg, Tangelo’s has moved to 3121 Beach Boulevard in Downtown Gulfport.  They opened quietly last week with an “official” opening tonight, September 3.  We dropped in Thursday evening and had a delightful time at a sidewalk table people watching and greeting friends who were passing by.  Most stopped, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIVE BAR AND GRILL COMES TO TOWN</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/09/dive-bar-and-grill-comes-to-town/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/09/dive-bar-and-grill-comes-to-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[09-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs Steve Donahue and Ernie Webb, (principals of the Florida Entertainment Group), are opening their latest venture, Dive Bar and Grill at 3128 Beach Boulevard in Downtown Gulfport.  In an interview with Steve and Ernie just four days before their scheduled opening in the middle of their 105 seat inside restaurant and bar, I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COUNCIL ENDORSES BILL THEY DID NOT READ!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/08/council-endorses-bill-they-did-not-read/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/08/council-endorses-bill-they-did-not-read/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[08-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back on July 20, 2010, Gwen Collins, RN of Gulfport, along with a group of 6-8 other RNs requested that the Council pass a Resolution in support of a legislative act titled The Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act.  They made a rather impassioned case that the well-being and safety of hospital patients in Florida depended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOME GOOD, SOME BAD AT COUNCIL WORKSHOP!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/08/some-good-some-bad-at-council-workshop/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/08/some-good-some-bad-at-council-workshop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[08-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[City taxpayers got some good news and some bad news at the City Council Workshop on August 15.  The good news is that the drop in assessed value of all properties only dropped 9.7% from last year rather than the forecast 10.2% used in formulating the proposed Gulfport budget.  The bad news is that although [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SENIOR CENTER FOUNDATION SEEKS SPONSORS</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/08/senior-center-foundation-seeks-sponsors/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/08/senior-center-foundation-seeks-sponsors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[08-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everything at Gulfport’s recently accredited, (only about 180 in USA), Senior Center is growing except its funding.  Actually City funding has lagged behind demand for many years.  So, the people of Gulfport formed a 501c3 non-profit foundation to augment funds to help fuel the growth and to provide funding for “above and beyond” services, facilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CANDIDATE CHARACTERISTICS-CHARACTER</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/08/candidate-characteristics-character/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/08/candidate-characteristics-character/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[08-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Third in a series) “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Abraham Lincoln “The respect that leadership must have requires that one’s ethics be without question.  A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CANDIDATE CHARACTERISTICS-AVAILABILITY</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/08/budget-workshops-predict-no-tax-rate-increase-2/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/08/budget-workshops-predict-no-tax-rate-increase-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[08-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(The second in a series) While I was on vacation in Massachusetts, I wrote a piece titled, “What To Look For in a City Council Candidate,” in which I outlined 7 desirable characteristics.  The categories are: Availability, Character, Motivation, Capacity, Communication, Flexibility and Creativity. Between then and now, readers have made some of their own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BUDGET WORKSHOPS PREDICT NO TAX RATE INCREASE!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/07/budget-workshops-predict-no-tax-rate-increase/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/07/budget-workshops-predict-no-tax-rate-increase/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[07-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In case you don’t know it, your City Manager has been meeting regularly with the City Council in a series of Budget Workshops in which he sought overall policy direction and then bounced his 2010-2011 budget proposal off the Council for their reaction.  It is the Manager’s job to present the budget to the Council [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>“….AND A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM.”</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/07/%e2%80%9c%e2%80%a6and-a-little-child-shall-lead-them%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/07/%e2%80%9c%e2%80%a6and-a-little-child-shall-lead-them%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[07-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of you don’t know that soon to be 5th grader Catherine Hicks of 45th St. South, Gulfport made a heartfelt presentation to the City Council seeking their help in saving Clam Bayou and her feathered friends who live and die there.  It was a wonderful presentation and we have provided the full text below. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JOIN THE CROWD AT GECKOFEST ON SEP. 4!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/07/join-the-crowd-at-geckofest-on-sep-4/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/07/join-the-crowd-at-geckofest-on-sep-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[07-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The theme is “Mardi Gras meets the Renaissance,” and it’s the 10th anniversary of Geckofest that started small and now brings up to 15,000 people into “downtown” Gulfport to celebrate the end of our hot summer and the beginning of 9 months of sublime weather that makes our area Paradise.  This year’s Geckofest promises to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>IS THE INCOME A FAIR TAX?</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/07/is-the-income-a-fair-tax/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/07/is-the-income-a-fair-tax/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DogFish</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[07-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Dogfish I think we are all in agreement that the United States Income Tax Codes are not fair. We all can see that the tax codes are written for special interests even some you might be in.  When I was younger and more naïve, I viewed the tax code as the governments way to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN A CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE?</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/06/what-to-look-for-in-a-city-council-candidate/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/06/what-to-look-for-in-a-city-council-candidate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[06-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(The first in a series) For the past few days, I’ve been on vacation and traveling between Auburn, Massachusetts and East Lyme, Connecticut where my daughters Susan and Margaret live.  It’s been great seeing two of our kids and their families.  We also got to talk to a lot of people in both places and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>POTPURRI-FROM DOGGIE BEACH TO CODE ENFORCEMENT!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/06/potpurri-from-doggie-beach-to-code-enforcement/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/06/potpurri-from-doggie-beach-to-code-enforcement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[06-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Big Dog gets around town and attends a ton of meetings in order to keep this blog going.  Every once in a while a backlog of smaller issues and opportunities uncovered in his travels clogs his brain.  This piece is a bunch of relatively random items and ideas that once  written will, hopefully, unclog the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>MY VACATION IN OUR NATION!</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/06/my-vacation-in-our-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/06/my-vacation-in-our-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[06-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bright 12 year old kids when they get excited about something have a way of giving off a special energy that ignites the imagination of everyone with whom he or she comes in contact.  So, when Elizabeth Brown-Worthington told me about the great adventure on which she was about to embark I became almost as [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>COUNCIL SHOULD SHARE POWER WITH PLANNING AND ZONING</title>
		<link>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/06/council-should-share-power-with-planning-and-zoning/</link>
		<comments>http://gulfportwatchdog.com/2010/06/council-should-share-power-with-planning-and-zoning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Big Dog</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[06-10]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We Gulfporters expect an awful lot from our Mayor, (salary, $900 per month), and our four City Council Members, (salaries, $600 per month).  Obviously, the folks who run for a City Council seat aren’t doing it for the money.  When one considers the number of meetings they attend and the hours involved, they are probably [...]]]></description>
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