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		<title>Choosing an HDTV – Forewarned is Forearmed: Tips On How To Buy The Right One For Your Viewing Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Nelsen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pete Nelsen is an expert on tuning your expensive television and audio systems. I have asked him to write us a column on how to chose an HDTV. You are getting sound advice from a man who has no dog in the race. George Gombossy  Does the very idea of strolling down the aisle of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conn Humane Society Hires New Director, Gives Little Detail</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/28/conn-humane-society-hires-new-director-gives-little-detail</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The troubled Connecticut Humane Society has hired a new director, replacing Richard Johnston who was forced to quit  following allegations of wrongdoing from former staff members. Gordon G. Willard, the society told workers, has been selected as the new executive director, starting  August 5. The 130-year-old charity gave little details today on Willard. It did not state [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American and United Offer Big Sales</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/28/american-and-united-offer-big-sales</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denis Horgan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, the air carrier goliaths are competing with one another to offer sales. There are restrictions and footnotes galore &#8212; and the usual fees &#8212; but this is worth a look. Here&#8217;s what the nifty smartertravel.com says about the latest round: &#8220;It&#8217;s a battle of giants: Big-time airlines American and United are going head-to-head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sport Stadium Food Expensive AND Unsafe</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Bristol, Ct. based ESPN recently checked eatery inspections at sports stadiums and what they found you would not like. Check Paula Lavigne&#8217;s column &#8220;Outside the Lines&#8221; about how some sports vendors are not passing food inspections in critical areas of health. “ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ reviewed health department inspection reports for food and beverage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alfalfa Sprouts From Specialty Farms Recalled</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Press Release</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr. today is warning consumers that Specialty Farms, LLC is voluntarily recalling Specialty Farms brand Organic Alfalfa Sprouts Blend and Organic Sprout Salad in the northeastern United States due to a possible health risk. “These items, which have a sell-by date of 7/26/2010 and are in 4-ounce plastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case Closed on the U.S. Attorney Firings? Really? DOJ’s Political ‘Purge’ and Torture Probers Suppressed Evidence In Connecticut Crime Case</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/26/case-closed-on-the-u-s-attorney-firings-really-doj%e2%80%99s-political-%e2%80%98purge%e2%80%99-and-torture-probers-suppressed-evidence-in-connecticut-crime-case</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kreig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Four days before Connecticut's Nora Dannehy was appointed to investigate the Bush administration’s U.S. attorney firing scandal, a team of lawyers she led was found to have illegally suppressed evidence in a major political corruption case. Andrew Kreig, who covered Connecticut's federal courts for the Hartford Courant from 1976 to 1981, today reveals that the previously unreported fact from Dannehy's past calls her entire national investigation into question. The revelations similarly compromise the pending investigation by her Connecticut colleague, John Durham, who since 2008 has been the nation's special prosecutor for DOJ and CIA decision-making involving torture.]]></description>
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		<title>New Condo Rules In Conn Helps Owners Learn What Their Associations Are Up To</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/24/new-condo-rules-in-conn-helps-owners-learn-what-their-associations-are-up-to</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For an estimated 250,000 condominium owners in Connecticut, this month will be remembered as the watershed time when unprecedented legal protections went into effect. Thanks to legislation adopted by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. M. Jodi Rell, the playing field &#8211; according to state Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell Jr. –  for condo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Energy, Our Newest Sponsor, Can Save You $$ On Your Electric Bill And Help Us Too</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/23/positive-energy-our-newest-sponsor-can-save-you-on-your-electric-bill-and-help-us-too</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally I don&#8217;t announce advertising or sponsorships on our website because they are clear-cut, traditional advertising and what they pay is of no consequence to the reader. The only difference between the sponsors on my site and those in newspapers is that I tell them in writing that being an advertiser gives them no advantage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congress To Lift Penalty On Unemployed Who Take Temporary Jobs</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/22/congress-to-lift-penalty-on-unemployed-who-take-temporary-jobs</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an excellent story in today&#8217;s Courant, staff reporter Mara Lee explores the disincentive that the unemployed have to find work as they are penalized for taking temporary jobs that pay less than the jobs they lost inititially. The story also explains how legislation pending in Congress will fix the problem along with stories from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blumenthal Identifies States In Google Investigation, But Offers No Proof As To When They Joined Him</title>
		<link>http://ctwatchdog.com/2010/07/21/blumenthal-identifies-states-in-google-investigation-but-offers-no-proof-as-to-when-they-joined-him</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Gombossy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal today named some of the states that have joined his investigation into Google&#8221;s Street View production. However, his office has yet to provide any evidence that any of those states had actually asked him to head the probe 30 days ago when he announced his multi-state investigation. I have been [...]]]></description>
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