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		<title>EU Eases Burma Sanctions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Lori Keong

The European Union agreed on Monday to ease some of its sanctions on the government of Myanmar, formerly Burma, after the nation showed increasing efforts at progress and reform. 
 
The EU made this decision to lift travel bans on Burmese officials more than a week after the government under President Thein Sein [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wuog.org/news/2012/01/25/eu-eases-burma-sanctions/</link>
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		<title>The Stop Online Piracy Act goes to far</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Alma McCarty

Imagine logging onto your computer. You click the Firefox button and open your browser. You go to Google only to see that you cannot.
&#8220;Must be a mistake,&#8221; you think to yourself, &#8220;or maybe it’s this faulty connection.&#8221;
You start to silently curse the WiFi gods for this miniature disaster when you realize that SOPA, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wuog.org/news/2012/01/18/the-stop-online-piracy-act-goes-to-far/</link>
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		<title>Downtown Walmart development awaits traffic study</title>
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Selig Enterprises, the development company that hopes to build a Walmart on the outskirts of downtown, will have to hold off on its negotiations with elected officials at least until after it releases a long-awaited study assessing the project&#8217;s impact on traffic flow.
The property in question is located on Oconee Street and stretches from Broad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wuog.org/news/2012/01/17/downtown-walmart-development-awaits-traffic-study/</link>
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		<title>The James Report Podcast: Joint Committee of Deficit Reduction Deadline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The deadline is closing near. The Joint Committee of Deficit Reduction has to make a deal or automatic cuts to the federal government will ensue. Tune in to the James Report Podcast and get some info about the Committee as well as how critical its decision is to you.
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		<link>http://wuog.org/news/2011/11/18/the-james-report-podcast-joint-committee-of-deficit-reduction-deadline/</link>
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		<title>11-16-2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this edition: The Keystone XL pipeline, the U.S. Postal Service, Ohio&#8217;s voter I.D. law, and the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision to hear a challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
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		<link>http://wuog.org/news/2011/11/18/11-16-2011/</link>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street evicted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[N.Y.P.D. officers arrested over 100 Occupy Wall Street demonstrators Tuesday morning as Zuccotti Park was cleared of the tents that define the Occupy movement. The eviction began around 1 a.m. and ended at about 4:30 a.m., though the park remained closed while city crews continued their cleanup efforts. NY State Supreme Court Justice Michael Stalling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wuog.org/news/2011/11/18/occupy-wall-street-evicted/</link>
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		<title>Farm 255 hires &#8220;Top Chef&#8221; contender</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Big changes are coming to Farm 255, Athens’s favorite “farm-to-table” restaurant. The award-winning eatery has hired a new chef, Whitney Otawka, soon to be familiar to many as a contestant on Bravo’s “Top Chef.”
Otawka is no stranger to the culinary world, coming to Farm after a year at Cumberland Island’s much-lauded Greyfield Inn. Before that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wuog.org/news/2011/11/15/farm-255-hires-top-chef-contender/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;We can&#8217;t wait&#8221;: President Obama going in alone with new Executive Orders.</title>
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President Barack Obama has issued close to 100 executive orders since taking office in 2009. One of his earliest criticized orders was his order to close the Guantanamo Bay camp. Approximately 90 or so executive orders later President Obama has released more than 5 executive orders in the past two months. Most of these orders [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wuog.org/news/2011/11/15/we-cant-wait-president-obama-going-in-alone-with-new-executive-orders/</link>
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		<title>Supreme Court to Rule on Healthcare Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court announced today it will hear a challenge to President Obama&#8217;s signature healthcare overhaul, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which barely passed through Congress in March of 2010.  The Affordable Care Act consumed much of Obama&#8217;s first year as president and exacerbated the heated political divide in Washington and in communities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://wuog.org/news/2011/11/14/supreme-court-to-rule-on-healthcare-law/</link>
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		<title>10-26-2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this edition: Arrests made at Occupy Wall Street protests in Atlanta; Obama announces the troop withdrawal in Iraq; the death of Qadaffi; and an interview with poet and MacArthur &#8220;Genius&#8221; A.E. Stallings.
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		<link>http://wuog.org/news/2011/11/12/10-26-2011/</link>
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