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      <title>Johnson and Committee Discuss Biofuels Infrastructure Issues</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[U.S. Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, examined biofuel infrastructure that reduces our dependence on foreign fuel at a hearing recnetly. The committee also considered the Biofuels Market Expansion Act of 2011, a Johnson-cosponsored bill that...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Drug prices skyrocket</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Popular brand-name drugs are already expensive and getting pricier. Despite the sluggish economy and low rate of inflation, top-selling medications have soared in price.<br/><br/>The cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor is up more than 11 percent over last year. According to Thomson Reuters MarketScan...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Chamber of Commerce seeks business, nonprofit innovators</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Issaquah businesses and nonprofit organizations continue to innovate, despite a tough economy and other challenges.<br/><br/>In order to recognize local entrepreneurs' accomplishments, the Issaquah Chamber of Commerce is seeking nominees for the Innovation in Issaquah contest, a showcase for local ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Economic development may be on the table</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Looking ahead to the next fiscal year budgeting season at the county, Weiser businessman and Chamber of Commerce board member Patrick Nauman is hoping the county's three-member governing board will refund an economic development position that was deleted from this year's county budget.<br/><br/>Dur...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Power County Spotlight on Health</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today is National Doctor's Day and what would we do without them? Our providers are on-call 24-7 to service the emergency room. They care and coordinate services for our residents in the skilled nursing facility. They see hundreds of patients through our rural health clinic every month and serve on...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Seeing the forest through the trees</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[With a rising deficit, uncertainty in the stock market, fears of an energy shortage and political instability generating so many headlines on the other side of the globe, it doesn't seem like there's any reason for people to feel confident that economic certainty is in their immediate future, but o...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Tax increase on the table?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It's only March, but already the council is reviewing the city's plans to close a projected 2011 budget gap between revenues and expenses of 8.2 percent, or about $963, 000.<br/><br/>Finance director Scott James presented the Mukilteo City Council with Mayor Joe Marine's proposed gap-closing plan d...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Something is wrong when the richest company doesn't have to pay taxes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Not much fanfare was generated from an amazing story that was recently published in several major newspapers across America.<br/><br/>It's a microcosm of what is fundamentally wrong with our current way of life. It was published under the headline: "G.E.'s Strategies Let It Avoid Taxes Altogether."...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>BCISD shortage put at $1.25 million</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Burnet Consolidated Independent School Board soon will begin the budgeting process for the 2012-2013 school year and acting superintendent Dr. Ann Dixon told them Monday to expect to go through another unpleasant experience.<br/><br/>"You guys did the easiest stuff last year and that wasn't eas...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
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      <title>Health district shows healthy profit</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Morrow County Health District showed a healthy profit for the second month in a row, according to the February profit/loss statement released at the regular meeting held Monday night in Heppner.<br/><br/>The district had a $47,162 gain for February, down from a $216,680 gain in January.<br/><br...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 UTC</pubDate>
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