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		<title>Second Ward Council Member Tony Derezinski Trapped Under The Same Political Baggage That Crushed Rapundalo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by P.D. Lesko Former Second Ward Council member Stephen Rapundalo was not popular. He had earned a reputation among constituents and city staffers as being nasty. One police officer, when asked about Rapundalo prior to the November 2011 general election in which Rapundalo was ousted from office, said with a chuckle, &#8220;Oh, we don&#8217;t like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.a2politico.com/2012/02/second-ward-council-member-tony-derezinski-trapped-under-the-same-political-baggage-that-crushed-rapundalo/</link>
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		<title>Insider Baseball: Why Power Brokers Are Backing A White Guy In A Michigan Black Majority Congressional District</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A2P Notes: At A2Politico.com everyone is a political insider. That&#8217;s the way it should be. Local, state and to a lesser degree national politics have increasingly become the baileywick of professionals: candidates, their staffers, ad agencies, and political analysts. Voters go to the polls less informed than ever before in increasingly smaller numbers. As the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.a2politico.com/2012/02/insider-baseball-why-power-brokers-are-backing-a-white-guy-in-a-michigan-majority-black-congressional-district/</link>
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		<title>Daily Kos Owner Tells NY Times Those Who Object to Manipulation of Michigan Presidential Primary Are “Pearl Clutchers”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By P.D. Lesko Operation Hilarity may not be quite so funny to Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Moulitsas Zuniga owns the liberal blog Daily Kos which has over 300,000 registered users and serves up 2,000,000 pages per month. Moulitsas Zuniga launched Kos because he believed &#8220;the liberal Ivy League mandarins, consultants, and wonks, many of them refugees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.a2politico.com/2012/02/daily-kos-owner-tells-ny-times-those-who-object-to-manipulation-of-michigan-presidential-primary-are-pearl-clutchers/</link>
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		<title>The Parent Trap: Yes, I Chose to Let My Kids Live With Their Dad. No, I&#8217;m Not a Bad Mom.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Sophia van Buren She sat there on the couch across from me, arms crossed, chin slightly jutting out from her face, her sharp features contorted into a look of disapproval.  Her pale blue eyes looked sternly into mine, like a mother admonishing a child.  It was a look I’d seen before, many times. Every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.a2politico.com/2012/02/the-parent-trap-yes-i-chose-to-let-my-kids-live-with-their-dad-no-im-not-a-bad-mom/</link>
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		<title>Urban Exile: Food Stamps 101</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by K. Frank I line up with about twenty others in the waiting room. Each one of us is holding a white envelope containing information and forms to fill out to apply for food stamps. We’re escorted by a uniformed police officer through the door, down a hallway, past cubicles where workers have photos of [...]]]></description>
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