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		<title>Parking the profits</title>
		<link>http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/07/31/parking-the-profits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the recent mess with the Police building vote (for Peel Plaza), you would think that Council would be more inclined to think more about the ramifications to the taxpayers in the city! The next messy vote coming up is around the parking garage that the city wants to build for Peel Plaza. It sounds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peel Plaza &#8211; Police HQ Going Ahead &#8211; Priorities Left Behind</title>
		<link>http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/07/20/peel-plaza-police-hq-going-ahead-priorities-left-behind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After much public outrage over the costs of Peel Plaza, last week Council voted to go forward with the Police HQ component of Peel Plaza: In one of the most contentious decisions of its mandate, common council voted Wednesday night to build a $20.6-million police station in the city centre. After a two-hour debate in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citizens&#8217; Priorities Should Come First!</title>
		<link>http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/07/12/citizens-priorities-should-come-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a great email this weekend on the topic of Peel Plaza, and I&#8217;d like to share it with everyone! Check it out, and let me know what you think: The stench of Marsh Creek near the Post Office and by the brook on Bridge Street in the north end would lead tourists to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote NO to Peel Plaza</title>
		<link>http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/07/09/vote-no-to-peel-plaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Telegraph-Journal is reporting that a vote on the police station portion of Peel Plaza will take place soon: Common council is preparing for a vote on a new police station uptown after the city received five qualified bids for the project, with the lowest bidder pegging construction costs at $20.6 million. While the price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Saint John Sprawl</title>
		<link>http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/07/08/stop-saint-john-sprawl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Facebook Group &#8220;Stop Saint John Sprawl&#8221; is starting to get some media attention! Today&#8217;s Telegraph-Journal featured an article &#8220;Facebook group fosters debate about planned highway expansion&#8220;: SAINT JOHN &#8211; Smart cities grow up, not out, says Kurt Peacock, a Saint John civic activist and urban researcher. Peacock, and fellow civic activist Shawn Peterson, are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water, water, everywhere; is Saint John going to get wet?</title>
		<link>http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/07/05/water-water-everywhere-is-saint-john-going-to-get-wet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.&#8221; When Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote that famous line in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, he wasn&#8217;t writing about Saint John; however,with water on everyone&#8217;s mind, it&#8217;s a fitting line for Saint John&#8217;s number one priority &#8211; Clean, Safe, Drinking Water (at least on paper). This past [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turn down tap on water rates</title>
		<link>http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/07/02/turn-down-tap-on-water-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Deputy Mayor Stephen Chase wrote a great article that appeared in today&#8217;s Telegraph Journal, check it out below! In its most recent presentation to Saint John Common Council, the chairman of Saint John&#8217;s economic development agency identified the implementation of a modern water treatment and delivery system as an economic development initiative: it will encourage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We need innovative ways of sharing the city&#8217;s burden</title>
		<link>http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/06/24/we-need-innovative-ways-of-sharing-the-citys-burden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:39:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a really great article in today&#8217;s Telegraph-Journal on the widening of the Mackay Highway, and I would recommend everyone take a moment to check it out: Mayor Ivan Court has a point in questioning the widening of the Mackay Highway to make it easier for Kennebecasis Valley residents to get back and forth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spending tax dollars wisely</title>
		<link>http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/06/02/spending-tax-dollars-wisely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a great Letter to the Editor in today&#8217;s Telegraph-Journal: Spending tax dollars wisely I am very disappointed in the Liberals&#8217; plan to spend $30 million to add an extra lane along the MacKay Highway. Adding an extra lane only increases the size of the funnel and does not get commuters to work any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peel Plaza issue goes into the Twittersphere</title>
		<link>http://saintjohnshawn.com/2010/04/21/peel-plaza-issue-goes-into-the-twittersphere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Telegraph-Journal had a great article about people using Twitter to let everyone know what was happening during the recent Peel Plaza meeting at City Hall. I was following along that evening, and I found these tweets to be very informative. I really like how it allows everyone reading to be connected to what was [...]]]></description>
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