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	<title>Mark Boughton</title>
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	<description>Mayor, City of Danbury</description>
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		<title>God bless this mess..</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/boughton/2010/03/10/god-bless-this-mess/</link>
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		<dc:creator>Mark Boughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a former member of the legislature, I understand the legislative process as well as anyone. The rules for the legislature can be confusing, archaic, and downright strange.
So I understand when our legislative body gets side tracked once in a while on an issue or issues. Sometimes the legislative process just drives the General Assembly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On websites and such..</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Boughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently (Wednesday) I purchased the domain names &#8220;BoughtonforConnecticut&#8221; and &#8220;BoughtonforCT&#8221;- to ensure that if I chose to run for an office in  the State of Connecticut I could use the names that I wanted.
If not, I can keep the url&#8217;s and set up another site or just keep them pointed to mayormark.com. I wanted these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Help!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 02:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tragedy in Haiti grows worse and worse each day. I am asking for your assistance to help those who are victims of the recent earthquake.
Here is a link with with more information on how you can help.
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		<title>Happy Holidays&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/boughton/2009/12/23/happy-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Boughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well it&#8217;s that time of year again. My annual holiday shout out to all things great and small in the City of Danbury.
Special thanks to our city department heads and staff who work hard to maintain our quality of life in Danbury.
To all of our state legislators, local elected officials and our volunteers that serve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State of the City- 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Boughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[State of the City 2009
Dec. 18, 2009
Thank you and I would like to thank each of you for being here today.
Congratulations to Frank Kelly and to the Danbury Hospital.
What an outstanding and wonderful organization.
Danbury Hospital has become a national leader in many areas of medicine. The facility has become an anchor of care and compassion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Connecticut on the brink..</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/boughton/2009/12/14/connecticut-on-the-brink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Boughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was asked by Governor Rell to serve on a municipal mandate relief commission to help with the growing budget crisis in Hartford. Our charge was to develop a list of unfunded mandates that are passed along to cities and towns by the state and present them to the Legislature for suspension or elimination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new Danbury?</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/boughton/2009/12/08/the-new-danbury/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Boughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed anything different in Danbury lately? In case you missed it, we are operating under a new Charter since midnight of Dec. 3rd.
What&#8217;s a charter? A charter is the basis of our local government. It determines the rules that we operate under, and it determines the organizational structure of the City of Danbury.
So [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving!</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/boughton/2009/11/26/happy-thanksgiving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Boughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving! These are difficult and challenging times, but, together, we will see our community to better days.
I am thankful for your vote of confidence this month.
I am also thankful to the men and women of our military who are overseas defending the cause of liberty.
God bless you and God bless America!
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		<title>Not in New York..</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/boughton/2009/11/17/not-in-new-york/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Boughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent decision by the Obama administration to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other accused masterminds of the 9-11 attacks  in New York City is a mistake and should be reevaluated by the Justice Department.
Mohammed, or &#8220;KSM&#8221;, as the press refers to him, is by his own admission, one of the masterminds of the attacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veterans Day 2009</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/boughton/2009/11/11/veterans-day-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Boughton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen, veterans of all ages,  as Mayor of the City of Danbury it is once again my privilege and honor to attend our annual Veterans Day service.
President Woodrow Wilson initially designated today, November 11, as a day to remember and honor the veterans of World War I. Later this date was set aside [...]]]></description>
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