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	<title>Adam Friedman</title>
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		<title>Our state law-makers: we pay them full-time, they work part-time.</title>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2012/04/13/our-state-law-makers-we-pay-them-full-time-they-work-part-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you are interviewing a potential new hire for a demanding full-time position in your company.  The interview is going great, until the candidate explains that he has a second job, and, if hired, he will continue to work at the second job.  Wouldn&#8217;t his candidacy now seem far less attractive? Many Massachusetts legislators must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Globe: Mass Supreme Court allows citizen journalists to record any trial</title>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2012/03/02/globe-mass-supreme-court-allows-citizen-journalists-to-record-any-trial/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2012/03/02/globe-mass-supreme-court-allows-citizen-journalists-to-record-any-trial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:44:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reprinted from The Boston Globe.  Click here for the original article. This is a breakthrough for open government advocates in Massachusetts and around the US.  All that&#8217;s left is for the court system or a media organization to set up one unmanned camera in every single hearing room (and a good omnidirectional mic), and then, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Occupy: Do Democracy First.</title>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2012/01/10/dear-occupy-do-democracy-first/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electoral Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Occupy Boston, I am honored and blessed to stand with Occupy. Together we are reawakening the nation, and the world, to go straight to the heart of our collective political life to demand with urgency and conviction: Democracy is for people! Consider this our formal introduction. I write to you as a democracy reformer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MWDN: Investigation shows state lagging in online presence</title>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/12/31/mwdn-investigation-shows-state-lagging-in-online-presence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/12/31/mwdn-investigation-shows-state-lagging-in-online-presence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Adam's note: The following is a re-post of a brilliant MetroWest Daily News article penned by Katie Lannan and Adam Tamburin (original source).  If we the people of Massachusetts got angry and active enough, we could force our representatives to solve these serious transparency gaps within a few years.] &#8211; Second in a series. Although the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Florida &#8216;runoff benefit&#8217;?&#8221; by Brian C. Mooney</title>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/12/24/a-florida-runoff-benefit-by-brian-c-mooney/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/12/24/a-florida-runoff-benefit-by-brian-c-mooney/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Dec 2011 03:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electoral Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Adam's note: Just found this gem on the web while doing research for my upcoming workshop on IRV at the 2012 College Convention.  My own Congressman (Capuano) won the Dem primary with 23 percent of the vote -- a paltry mandate.] Boston Globe, 4/15/2001 &#8212; written by Brian C. Mooney Democracy is imperfect, as last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff tells all</title>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/11/23/disgraced-lobbyist-jack-abramoff-tells-all/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/11/23/disgraced-lobbyist-jack-abramoff-tells-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rules Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You've got to get in the loop, and I've got the guy who will take us there.  Never before have we been granted such a trove of insider stories about how so many of our Members of Congress are bought and manipulated for special interest gain.  And the goods come straight from the most notorious lobbyist in recent history, Jack Abramoff.]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy: We are the 99%</title>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/10/12/occupy-we-are-the-99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/10/12/occupy-we-are-the-99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electoral Reform]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Occupy movement is awakening our nation to the rotten nut of our current democracy.  The energy and fury is palpable, and it is growing by the day.  Yet, still, national media personalities are criticizing the movement as lacking a demands or specificity.  My response: just wait.  The movement is evolving organically, and this very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Grossman takes $45K from the liquor industry he regulates</title>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/10/01/steve-grossman-takes-45k-from-the-liquor-industry-he-regulates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/10/01/steve-grossman-takes-45k-from-the-liquor-industry-he-regulates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After reading in the Globe about how Massachusetts State Treasurer Steve Grossman attended a fund-raiser for lobbyists, I posted the following on his Facebook fan page.  But first, the article&#8217;s most delectable quotation: In his biggest one-time haul of political cash since he took office, state Treasurer Steve Grossman accepted $45,000 at a fund-raiser earlier this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State Legislature Ethics Oversight Exchange</title>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/08/11/state-legislature-ethics-oversight-exchange/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/08/11/state-legislature-ethics-oversight-exchange/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 04:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government Corruption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brilliant good government policy proposal of the week, courtesy of Herald co-worker Todd Prussman: an interstate compact in which two different state legislatures of comparable size agree to provide all ethics and rules oversight administrative duties for each other.  This way, there is a healthy amount of distance (disinterest) while one state&#8217;s office investigates cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Globe: Legislators&#8217; vital work veiled from public&#8217;s eye</title>
		<link>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/07/08/globe-legislators-vital-work-veiled-from-publics-eye/</link>
		<comments>http://www.adamfriedman.org/2011/07/08/globe-legislators-vital-work-veiled-from-publics-eye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had to re-post this from The Boston Globe, as it captures a central fight we must wage for government openness in Massachusetts.  Here is the link to the original article. &#8211; July 08, 2011 &#124; By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff The $30.6 billion budget approved by the Legislature last week was negotiated almost entirely [...]]]></description>
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