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	<title>Frank Speaking</title>
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	<description>On Politics</description>
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		<title>Redistricting</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2011/07/07/redistricting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, I get the knee-jerk reaction to change offered by someone partisan is often going to be rejection. But the reaction to the proposed redistricting rolled out by Ed Krumeich and a series of Democrats to be silly. Because if our esteemed Representatives and assorted Republican functionaries had actually analyzed the proposed map, rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So There, Lincoln Milstein</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2011/06/30/so-there-lincoln-milstein/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2011/06/30/so-there-lincoln-milstein/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has come to my attention that the Grand Poohbah of the Greenwich Time, Hearst Executive Lincoln Milstein thinks that the Greenwich Democrats are &#8220;toothless&#8221; among other things. Its not terribly easy to explain what the right thing is in Greenwich, so I am throwing out the gauntlet to Lincoln hisself &#8211; I&#8217;ll tell you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Back</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2011/02/01/im-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 21:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now isn&#8217;t that great news! Sarcasm aside, I am always pleased that the Greenwich Time has offered this platform for my views. But I also like the comments as well. Lots of changes afoot in the next few months. I&#8217;ll be commenting on hard-core Republican desires to evicerate our Town services, education and way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Amendment Blues</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2010/08/23/first-amendment-blues/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2010/08/23/first-amendment-blues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2000, Congress passed &#8211; and Bill Clinton signed &#8211; the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. RLUIPA, as it&#8217;s called, was conceived to protect the rights of all faiths to build houses of worship, particularly when pesky neighbors used zoning as a backdoor way of keeping out religious expression. Its so much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Big Democratic Speech</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2010/03/22/my-big-democratic-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2010/03/22/my-big-democratic-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it means a hill of beans or not, as this paper reported I was elected the Chairman of the Democratic Town Committee this past Thursday. I gave the following speech that night. Love to hear your thoughts&#8230;. SPEECH BELOW Thank you very much for your support and confidence I am pleased to know all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Friend Dave</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2010/03/11/my-friend-dave/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2010/03/11/my-friend-dave/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Dave Roberson died the other morning. He was 42, he wasn&#8217;t married, didn&#8217;t have any children, and lived with his mother in the house he grew up in on Hassake Road in Old Greenwich. He worked part time at Greenwich Library doing something in one of those crevasses where cell phones can&#8217;t penetrate, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Buildings</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2010/02/07/new-buildings/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2010/02/07/new-buildings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My son and his Cub Scout troop took a tour of the new Police Station in Central Greenwich yesterday. What was the takeaway? It was that the police station was far nicer than our house. Mind you, our house could use a few touchups here or there, but its a solid 160 year old place [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back and Slightly More Improved Than Ever</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2010/01/29/back-and-slightly-more-improved-than-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2010/01/29/back-and-slightly-more-improved-than-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have returned to blogging after a long period of way too much to do. In this economy, working ten times harder than anyone else is the only way to get back to square. I had lunch with a local banker a few weeks ago and he provided me with some words that I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who are YOU voting for and why</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/10/27/who-are-you-voting-for-and-why/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/10/27/who-are-you-voting-for-and-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re in the last week of one of the most spirited local election years in memory, and its time to figure out exactly who you are voting for, and why.  The tenor of the campaign has been very intense, especially in the last few weeks, and I think that is quite healthy for Greenwich. Healthy in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Himes</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/10/05/jim-himes/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/10/05/jim-himes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 23:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the first time since Lowell Weicker in 1971, our Congressman comes from Greenwich. There are a lot of things you can say about Jim Himes, but you can&#8217;t fault his address. I&#8217;ve had a few differences with Jim over the past four years, most of which overlapped his time as Chairman of the Greenwich Democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Special</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/09/28/defining-special/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/09/28/defining-special/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always believed that something is eternal in Greenwich until its not. Even though they didn&#8217;t appear on Greenwich Avenue until, I believe, the 1950&#8242;s, many of the defenders of cops directing traffic on the Avenue (count me as one of them) talk as if Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake stepped off the boat in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of No</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/09/21/the-power-of-no/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/09/21/the-power-of-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The RTM is a fascinating institution. Over the past few years we&#8217;ve had the Jim Lash blue-ribbon panel, an anniversary party, and today a story in the paper saying that 20% of the people rarely show up. What would one make of this? I think the first thing to note is that the only real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Grunow</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/09/11/steve-grunow/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/09/11/steve-grunow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Sunday morning, I got an email from my mother asking me if she could come down from Rhode Island for the night on Friday because Steve Grunow died. Steve had been smacking away at cancer over the last year or so and, while he wasn&#8217;t looking so superb the last time I saw him, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Friends and Neighbors</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/09/10/our-friends-and-neighbors/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/09/10/our-friends-and-neighbors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Housing Authority rears its head again in an ongoing quest to fulfill its mission of developing low-cost housing in Greenwich, this time with the resubmission for Senior Citizens housing at McKinney Terrace at the corner of the Post Road and Western Junior Highway.  As usual, the real dynamism isn&#8217;t in the planning, but in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Freund</title>
		<link>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/09/08/obamas-freund/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.ctnews.com/farricker/2009/09/08/obamas-freund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Farricker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We survived the day where our President, with the assistance of some of those spinning hypnosis wheels from &#8217;50&#8242;s movies, and subliminal commands (&#8220;I love the leader&#8221; &#8211; h/t Simpsons fans) was going to turn our children into drones eager to force-feed Socialist medical care down the unsuspecting throats of true American patriots. Early dispatches seem to indicate that we [...]]]></description>
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