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	<title>Talk of the Point</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 04:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>No bookstore</title>
		<link>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/life-inside-the-point/2005/11/19/no-bookstore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2005 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Point Life</dc:subject><dc:subject></dc:subject>
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That bookstore you may have been anticipating at 5 West Richmond, within a pint bottle&#8217;s throw from the wig-wags, isn&#8217;t going to happen. The story is coming soon and until then I know nothing.

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		<title>Impoverished Richmond government is not so poor</title>
		<link>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/officialdom/2005/11/19/impoverished-richmond-government-is-not-so-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2005 02:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Officialdom</dc:subject><dc:subject></dc:subject>
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No matter what I think of &#8220;Simple Architect&#8221; Tom Butt, and I do have thoughts, I have to admit that now and then he earns his feed. The latest is his cross-city comparison of revenue sources and expenditure categories.


Buried in his email blast is the real headline: &#8220;Of the fourteen cities compared, Richmond has the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trainmaster Building arrives</title>
		<link>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/nice/2005/11/16/trainmaster-building-arrives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>NICE</dc:subject><dc:subject></dc:subject>
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So there it is, finally. The Trainmaster Building has been carried from the Burlington yard and plopped onto Cutting in to particular relation to the tracks, in the unhappy company of the Plunge and the wretched Todd Hotel (aka, &#8220;Gerlach Building&#8221;). It seems to promise the Plunge&#8217;s respectability while still a Todd-like ruin.


&#8220;Simple Architect&#8221; Tom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forecasting Measure Q</title>
		<link>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/officialdom/2005/11/08/forecasting-measure-q/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted</dc:creator>
		
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I voted for Measure Q, but no one else I know did.  Measure Q&#8211;which would raise
Richmond sales tax by a half percent&#8211;will get clobbered.


Not one person in my sample group of 10 or so could could stop with just a simple &#8220;no.&#8221; I heard answers like
&#8220;Hell no!,&#8221; &#8220;Are you kidding?,&#8221; &#8220;No! No! No!..&#8221;


Just watch. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes on Q</title>
		<link>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/officialdom/2005/10/31/yes-on-q/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Officialdom</dc:subject><dc:subject></dc:subject>
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Ernest T. Grump will vote no on Measure Q next Tuesday. It&#8217;s a Richmond measure to raise sales tax by a half percent. But today he&#8217;s counting the bits of candy he&#8217;ll hand out tonight.


There&#8217;s no need to be generous to these little moochers, he says. Why, the same kids come to his doorstep year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Subway&#8217;s optimism about the Point</title>
		<link>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/life-inside-the-point/2005/10/28/subways-optimism-about-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/life-inside-the-point/2005/10/28/subways-optimism-about-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Point Life</dc:subject><dc:subject></dc:subject>
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Ever since the last &#8220;Subway&#8217;s moving in!&#8221; scare, I&#8217;ve meant to get an opinion from the man who represents big landlords around here. You can&#8217;t miss all the Cushman &#38; Wakefield signs around town, and on just about every one is John Troughten&#8217;s name.


No one I know wants another fast-food joint here. Starbucks is just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Darker view of NICE 2</title>
		<link>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/nice/2005/10/27/darker-view-of-nice-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>NICE</dc:subject><dc:subject></dc:subject>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/?p=134</guid>
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Andrew Butt, who campaigned tirelessly for the first NICE, has a darker view than mine on the prospects for a business improvement district. Don&#8217;t miss the comment he posted in response to &#8220;A New NICE Rises From The Mud.&#8221;

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		<title>Comments accident</title>
		<link>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/talk-of-the-point-itself/2005/10/27/comments-accident/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Talk</dc:subject><dc:subject></dc:subject>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/?p=133</guid>
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You may notice that all comments but the most recent ones are missing. That&#8217;s only temporary.
An unfortunate accident occurred the other day as I cleaned out the 15,000 or so spam comments that had accumulated since fall of 2003. A command that should have only deleted those posted before June 1 2005 somehow got rid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new NICE rises from the mud</title>
		<link>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/nice/2005/10/26/a-new-nice-rises-from-the-mud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/nice/2005/10/26/a-new-nice-rises-from-the-mud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>NICE</dc:subject><dc:subject></dc:subject>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/?p=132</guid>
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Let&#8217;s not miss the point about last night&#8217;s Son of NICE meeting in the parish hall of Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church.


Forget attendance. It could have been better&#8211;26 signed in&#8211;but so what. What matters is who showed up: nearly everyone necessary for a new drive.


Forget that they often disagreed, sometimes vehemently. After all, what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plunge burns, but there&#8217;s more good news than bad</title>
		<link>http://www.talkofthepoint.com/wordpress/life-inside-the-point/2005/10/20/plunge-burns-but-theres-more-good-news-than-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 22:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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	<dc:subject>Point Life</dc:subject><dc:subject>Plunge</dc:subject>
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If it hadn&#8217;t been so scary, it would have been heartwarming. There they were, gathered around the fire at the Plunge on Wednesday night: the former mayor, a firefighter-union leader, and firefighters who remembered the Plunge from childhood.


It all went like this, according to the Contra Costa Times: At about 10 p.m, former mayor Rosemary [...]]]></description>
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