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	<description>Demystifying the Crazy World of Municipal Government, One Town at a Time (Starting with the Modest City of Bloomington, Indiana USA)</description>
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		<title>Tempest in a tea-cup: AZ SB1070 and our intent to boycott</title>
		<link>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2010/07/01/tempest-in-a-tea-cup-az-sb1070-and-our-intent-to-boycott/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomington elected officials have used their offices to make the statement, but have not committed the City itself to any formal action. The distinction is significant.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Alternative&#8221; transportation: a phrase that&#8217;s bad for you</title>
		<link>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/12/15/alternative-transportation-a-phrase-thats-bad-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/12/15/alternative-transportation-a-phrase-thats-bad-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does that adjective mean, anyway&#8230;&#8221;alternative&#8221;? Because when I think about it, I just find it insulting.
Bloomington created an Alternative Transportation &#38; Greenways System Plan (the ATGSP, a mouthful of an acronym) a few years ago. It troubles itself only with bicycling routes and pedestrian paths like trails. That word &#8220;Alternative,&#8221; though, assumes that the automobile is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Essay: 3.5 units per acre in Garden Hill</title>
		<link>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/12/09/essay-35-units-per-acre-in-garden-hill/</link>
		<comments>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/12/09/essay-35-units-per-acre-in-garden-hill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://volan.org/councilmanic/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last year, Garden Hill&#8217;s neighborhood association was born again.
I watched it happen. Garden Hill is the neighborhood south of the Stadium and north of the tracks. At least, it used to be a &#8220;neighborhood&#8221;; for decades, it has been overrun by student rentals, perhaps 95% or more, due to its proximity to IU. The trend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Note: IU wants more right of way</title>
		<link>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/12/02/note-iu-wants-more-right-of-way/</link>
		<comments>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/12/02/note-iu-wants-more-right-of-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Up for First Reading tomorrow: IU wants the city to vacate a block of Walnut Grove. (Remember, First Reading is a formality; the Council actually begins discussing this issue Dec. 10 at Committee of the Whole.)
But I can tell you right now, despite my unreasonably high hopes for IU&#8217;s potential as an urban place, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Changeling,&#8221; streetcars, and &#8220;Traffic&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/11/29/changeling-streetcars-traffic/</link>
		<comments>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/11/29/changeling-streetcars-traffic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://volan.org/councilmanic/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I saw the new movie &#8220;Changeling,&#8221; starring Angelina Jolie and directed by Clint Eastwood. The movie is set in Los Angeles in the late Twenties and early Thirties. One of the most remarkable features of the movie for me was the predominance of streetcars, particularly how unremarkably they occupy the landscape.
The vision of streetcars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Day; no post-meeting report</title>
		<link>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/11/28/thanksgiving-day-no-post-meeting-report/</link>
		<comments>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/11/28/thanksgiving-day-no-post-meeting-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally from now on I&#8217;ll post a post-mortem on the previous night&#8217;s Council meeting. There was none this week because of the holiday.
Don&#8217;t eat too much turkey!
]]></description>
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		<title>Results of last week&#8217;s meeting(s)</title>
		<link>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/11/27/results-of-last-weeks-meetings/</link>
		<comments>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/11/27/results-of-last-weeks-meetings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally on Wednesdays I&#8217;ll write a preview of the Council meeting that night. Since tonight is the night before Thanksgiving, instead I&#8217;ll preview/review highlights of last week&#8217;s combined regular-session and committee-of-the-whole meeting. Among other things&#8230;
1. We voted in favor of vacating several overlooked alleys on the grounds of Fairview School, to enable the construction of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hospitals, campuses and urban form</title>
		<link>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/11/26/hospitals-campuses-and-urban-form/</link>
		<comments>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/11/26/hospitals-campuses-and-urban-form/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NYTimes.com yesterday ran a story about cities and health-care facilities: Plan for New Orleans Hospitals Draws Outcry.
We&#8217;ve had our share of battles with our local hospital. But all the politics aside, one word keeps jumping out at me when I hear talk of hospitals expanding:
NEW ORLEANS — Local and federal officials on Tuesday announced plans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week in Council: off</title>
		<link>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/11/25/this-week-in-council-off/</link>
		<comments>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/11/25/this-week-in-council-off/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sgv</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About This Blog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Notes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://volan.org/councilmanic/?p=61</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Council won&#8217;t meet this week for its usual Committee of the Whole. We had only one item for First Reading at last week&#8217;s Regular Session. Anticipating the Thanksgiving holiday, we held a Committee of the Whole last week right after the Regular Session so we could take this Wednesday off (since everyone else will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coughing through Budget Week</title>
		<link>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/07/23/coughing-through-budget-week/</link>
		<comments>http://volan.org/councilmanic/2008/07/23/coughing-through-budget-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sgv</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[David R. Grubb is back to visit us.
It&#8217;s an unusual week here at City Council. Normally we meet Wednesday nights at 7:30, but¬†this week we&#8217;ve been hearing the proposal from each city department for the 2009 budget, so we&#8217;re meeting at 6pm each night this week. (Monday&#8217;s meeting, the first of four straight, went a [...]]]></description>
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