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	<description>Taming The Wilds of Carlsbad-by-the Sea, California</description>
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		<title>The Riehl World: The New vs. The Good Old Boys</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does mayoral candidate Matt Hall continue to mislead Carlsbad voters about a measure on the November ballot? His website was revised a day after my July 30 Carlsbadistan column criticized him for wrongly claiming the city charter amendment up for a vote would create a two-tiered pension plan for city employees. He now says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Riehl World: A Peek At The Races</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the retirement of a mayor who has been in office for a quarter of a century and two City Council seats up for grabs, Carlsbad voters will have their first opportunity in decades to make a substantial change in city leadership. The incumbents have a lot going for them. The city&#8217;s in better financial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Riehl World: Carlsbad Burns Firefighters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the close of the Carlsbad City Council&#8217;s May 18 meeting, Councilman Matt Hall observed, &#8220;History keeps repeating itself. When this issue first came before us in 2001, the mayor and I both voted against it.&#8221; He was referring to an increase in retirement benefits approved nine years ago on a 3-2 vote. This time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Riehl World: The Union Distraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you walk the seawall late at night along Carlsbad Boulevard, you may hear voices in the distance sounding the alarm: &#8220;To arms! To arms! The unions are coming! The unions are coming!&#8221; The familiar warning cry began with a Feb. 20 headline in the North County Times: &#8220;City&#8217;s unions expected to play active role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Riehl World: Friends Of Aviara Off Target</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the urgency of its actions, you&#8217;d think the Friends of Aviara had just discovered a Super Walmart was about to open its doors on the shores of the Batiquitos Lagoon. The La Costa neighborhood group is suing Carlsbad&#8217;s City Council for approving a planning document that would bring affordable senior housing to their backyard. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Riehl World: Mark Packard &amp; Rail Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Carlsbad city councilman Mark Packard really more interested in political grandstanding than public safety? As a member of the North County Transit District board, he cast the only &#8220;no&#8221; vote to fund a study to install a federally required safety system on our local commuter trains. He said he did so because the feds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Riehl World: Guardian of the Status Quo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard J. Riehl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On his Web site&#8217;s home page, San Diego County Supervisor Bill Horn explains his personal political philosophy about government and public debt. Quoting himself first, then Lincoln and Jefferson, he congratulates himself for having the honor of serving as an &#8220;elected guardian of our County.&#8221; In law, a guardian is defined as someone assigned by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Riehl World: Hiring Sting A Waste</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who poses the greater threat to the safety of Carlsbad residents, drivers using cell phones while weaving their way at high speed down El Camino Real, or a bunch of guys standing around on the sidewalk hoping to be offered a job by the multitaskers whizzing by? The sting operation they launched last month to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Riehl World: Where&#8217;s The Superhero Pay?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings at a single bound. I thought of my favorite superhero when I read the qualifications required of the ideal candidate for a position recently posted on the Internet. The successful applicant, according to the job description, must be a &#8220;proactive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Riehl World: The &#8216;Little Men&#8217; Take Up Arms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The scenes were straight out of a spaghetti Western. In Encinitas one afternoon last month, 12 self-styled patriots strolled down First Street, the downtown stretch of South Coast Highway, as a similar group had done at Carlsbad&#8217;s Village Faire a few weeks earlier. North County&#8217;s version of the &#8220;Dirty Dozen,&#8221; six men and six women, [...]]]></description>
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