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		<title>War on Dumb wins Altweekly Award</title>
		<link>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/06/09/war-on-dumb-wins-altweekly-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>G. Brock</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the Medill School of Journalism announced the winners of the 13th annual Altweekly Awards at the association’s convention in Philadelphia. Birmingham Weekly’s ‘War on Dumb’ took first place for best political column in the 55,000-and-under circulation division.
The weekly column by staff writer Kyle Whitmire examines political culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham council&#8217;s infinite loop</title>
		<link>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/06/06/birmingham-councils-infinite-loop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Whitmire</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; reverses course, again, again, again &#8230;
War on Dumb by Kyle Whitmire
They voted for it before they voted against it, but not before they delayed voting against it a week, and then, once having voted against it, reconsidering that vote and then delaying another vote for another week, then finally voting for being against it, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gettin&#8217; gay with Leapin&#8217; Larry</title>
		<link>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/06/06/gettin-gay-with-leapin-larry/</link>
		<comments>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/06/06/gettin-gay-with-leapin-larry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Whitmire</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford sexual preference is a kind of lifestyle choice, the sort of thing we pick up as a hobby or extracurricular activity.]]></description>
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		<title>Langford budget lacks capital</title>
		<link>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/06/06/langford-budget-lacks-capital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Whitmire</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>

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City council doesn&#8217;t notice capital budget missing
War on Dumb by Kyle Whitmire
The Mayor-Council Act, the veritable constitution for the City of Birmingham, requires that the mayor do three things on or before May 20 of each year.
• The mayor must propose, for the council’s approval, an operations budget.
• The mayor must propose, for the council’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The truth is way out there</title>
		<link>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/06/06/the-truth-is-way-out-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Whitmire</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[bond swaps]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Steve Sayler]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[VisionLand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Langford scandals just a media ruse
War on Dumb by Kyle Whitmire
It’s all a conspiracy. News media who are upset that another candidate — Patrick Cooper — didn’t win the mayoral election last fall have been conniving with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice to frame Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford with everything [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proclamation of the Hypocalypse</title>
		<link>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/04/30/proclamation-of-the-hypocalypse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Whitmire</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[church and state]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[DOJ]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Larry Langford]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Life on Earth]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[sackcloth and ashes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As revealed by Saint Larry the Divine: I looked and there in City Hall a door stood open. And I heard a voice say, "It's time to do something." ]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the recycle</title>
		<link>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/04/21/war-on-dumb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Whitmire</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[
Nuance of the new environmentalism
War on Dumb by Kyle Whitmire
&#8220;Recycle&#8221; is redundant, and it&#8217;s only one word.
The prefix is superfluous, put there to make the rest of the word sound more important. Instead, it makes something that should be habitual and routine seem tedious, impractical or quaintly idealistic. &#8220;Cycle&#8221; will do nicely.
To most consumers, recycling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birmingham (regional) Chamber Name Game</title>
		<link>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/03/19/birmingham-regional-chamber-name-game/</link>
		<comments>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/03/19/birmingham-regional-chamber-name-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Whitmire</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If the Birmingham Regional Chamber of Commerce isn’t going to represent Birmingham, maybe Birmingham should find someone who would. The Hoover AREA Chamber of Commerce, perhaps? ]]></description>
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		<title>Langford burns business elite</title>
		<link>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/03/12/langford-burns-business-elite/</link>
		<comments>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/03/12/langford-burns-business-elite/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:27:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Whitmire</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Carol Garrison]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Charles McCrary]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Russell Cunningham]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Like many before them, Birmingham’s business elite learned a hard lesson — it’s not good business sense to trust Mayor Langford.]]></description>
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		<title>Leapin&#8217; Larry&#8217;s Sayler man</title>
		<link>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/03/05/leapin-larrys-sayler-man/</link>
		<comments>http://bhamweekly.com/blog/2008/03/05/leapin-larrys-sayler-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>K. Whitmire</dc:creator>
		
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Finance chief steered JeffCo disaster
WAR ON DUMB by Kyle Whitmire
Two weeks ago, Banks, Finley, White &#38; Co. delivered the fiscal 2007 audit to the City of Birmingham. The city received a clean bill of health.
&#8220;We did enough tests and procedures that we feel that if fraud had occurred, we would have caught it,&#8221; Jeff White [...]]]></description>
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