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		<title>First Things First</title>
		<link>http://nwitimes.com/app/blog/news/?p=3980</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Keller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weekend out brought out a lot of anti Dan Coats-related blog posts and stories. I&#8217;m not picking sides here, but rather would like to illustrate that politics and political gamesmanship remains our nation&#8217;s favorite past time.
WIBC-FM reports that former Republican Sen. Dan Coats says he may sell his family&#8217;s second  home in North [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Shelby&#8217;s hold on Obama nominees and its NWI implications</title>
		<link>http://nwitimes.com/app/blog/news/?p=3978</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Blaszkiewicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., has taken the rare step of placing a unilateral hold on all of President Obama&#8217;s nominees in an apparent protest over some pork-barrrel spending that he believes is due for his state.
Two local nominees are among those awaiting confirmation &#8211; Jon DeGuilio, nominee for federal judge in Indiana&#8217;s northern district [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A flag on the play, a play on the flag</title>
		<link>http://nwitimes.com/app/blog/news/?p=3974</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The governors of Indiana and Louisiana have announced the terms of their traditional wager on Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl game. But in the announcement for Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels&#8217; office Friday was another slam at Maryland Gov. Martin O&#8217;Malley.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal each agreed to send a team flag to be flown by the losing team&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Coats backlash begins</title>
		<link>http://nwitimes.com/app/blog/news/?p=3972</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Blaszkiewicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Associated Press called the candidacy of Dan Coats a &#8220;recruiting coup&#8221; for the Republicans in their quest to oust U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh., I was a bit skeptical.
After all, here was someone who was a Washington lobbyist for Bank of America &#8211; not exactly the kind of credentials that would get the tea [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tracking Dan Coats&#8217; record</title>
		<link>http://nwitimes.com/app/blog/news/?p=3968</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Blaszkiewicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amid all the hubbub over George Pabey and Chet Dobis on Wednesday, the significant entry of former U.S. Sen. Dan Coats into the 2010 race against Democrat Evan Bayh was pushed to the back burner. But there&#8217;s much to mull over in this potential matchup.
Bayh has a current voting record that is readily accessible and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Extreme home makeover: East Chicago edition</title>
		<link>http://nwitimes.com/app/blog/news/?p=3945</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Blaszkiewicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Law Enforcement, Crime and Courts]]></category>
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The indictment of East Chicago Mayor George Pabey and city supervisor Jose Camacho is amazing in the blatant arrogance of the offense. You can read the story here, and the full indictment here.
Prosecutors say that an engineering department account was used for a shopping spree at various home improvement stores for the Miller Beach home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, those party animals!</title>
		<link>http://nwitimes.com/app/blog/news/?p=3940</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just after posting that last item about former U.S. Sen. Dan Coats living and voting in Falls Church, Va., for more than a decade, the Indiana Democratic Party sent a note that indicates they&#8217;re having a lot of fun at that party today.
Here&#8217;s the snarky statement taking a jab at Coats:
On behalf of Hoosiers  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Coats hangs his hat</title>
		<link>http://nwitimes.com/app/blog/news/?p=3937</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Ross</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an update on our previous post about Dan Coats&#8217; Senate aspirations.
Former U.S. Sen. Dan Coats, who is poised to run against Sen. Evan Bayh, has lived and voted in Virginia for more than a record, Politico is reporting today.
Here&#8217;s an excerpt:
&#8220;Coats, who resigned from  the Senate in 1999, voted in the Virginia primary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Umm &#8230; that&#8217;s not an emergency</title>
		<link>http://nwitimes.com/app/blog/news/?p=3935</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Blaszkiewicz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Full disclosure, I&#8217;m rooting for the Saints, so I particularly relish this smackdown.
The Indianapolis Public Schools imposed a two-hour delay on Monday to give bus drivers more time to get to work on the day after watching the Colts in the Super Bowl.
On Tuesday, the Indiana Department of Education advised the IPS that their decision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Howey: Coats to challenge Bayh</title>
		<link>http://nwitimes.com/app/blog/news/?p=3933</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Blaszkiewicz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dan Coats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Bayh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Howey Politics Indiana breaks the news that former U.S. Sen. Dan Coats will challenge U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh for the very seat that Coats once held before retiring in 1998.
Indiana Democratic Chairman Dan Parker telegraphed the line of attack against Coats, citing his current role as a Washington lawyer and lobbyist for Bank of America.
As [...]]]></description>
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