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	<description>Up To The Minute Analysis Of Ohio Public Policy</description>
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		<title>Stimulus Works &#8211; Even in Districts That Don&#8217;t Exist!</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/11/17/stimulus-works-even-in-counties-that-dont-exist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Kresge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buckeye Institute Investigative Reporter Lynn Walsh uncovered 10 brand new Congressional Districts in Ohio via the www.recovery.org website&#8217;s newest state and territory summary for Ohio. Walsh exposed the mistake on the Buckeye Institute affiliated OhioWatchdog.org and the story was picked up today by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
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		<title>Mayer Questions the Need for State Aircraft</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/11/17/mayer-questions-the-need-for-state-aircraft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Kresge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buckeye Institute President Matt Mayer calls for the Ohio to reevaluate the need for state maintained aircraft in the midst of budget woes and a severe decline in usage in this Dayton Daily News article.
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		<title>Ohio&#8217;s Elected Officials Should Consider Highways</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/11/17/ohios-elected-officials-should-consider-highways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Kresge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems the State of Ohio is slow to move on Aviation Administrator James Bryant’s recommendation to sell 4 planes and 2 helicopters from an aging fleet. Buckeye Institute President Matt Mayer also questions Ohio’s use of planes and helicopters for inner state travel instead of Ohio’s highway system in this Dayton Daily News article.
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		<title>Matt Mayer on Bob Connors Radio Show</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/30/matt-mayer-on-bob-connors-radio-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Kresge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buckeye Institute President Matt Mayer was featured on the Bob Connors radio show this morning discussing a multitude of Ohio issues including the impact that federal health care reform and cap and trade could have on Ohio&#8217;s budget. Matt also spent some time on Ohio&#8217;s own budget woes.
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		<title>Stowers Family Finally will get Food Back</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/08/stowers-family-finally-will-get-food-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After nearly a year of waiting the Stowers family from LaGrange, Ohio will finally have their food returned to them from Ohio Department of Agriculture and the Lorain County General Health District.  The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law won a court order for all of the food that was seized back in December of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Cut Freeze the only Option?</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/08/tax-cut-freeze-the-only-option/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/10/08/tax-cut-freeze-the-only-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Walsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Ted Strickland announced a plan to freeze this years income tax last week; something he is now saying is not a tax increase.  Strickland views the tax cut freeze as a feasible way to get the budget in order.  President of the Buckeye Insitute, Matt Mayer, thinks there are other options that can be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1851 Center Client Open for Business at Last</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/30/1851-center-client-open-for-business-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lynn Walsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Constitutional Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday October 3, the owners of Moto Verde, a motor scooter shop in Fairfax, Ohio, will exercise their constitutional rights by opening their business to the general public.  Back in June, Moto Verde owners Tim Annett and Ryan Haines thought their own version of the American Dream, running a motor scooter shop, was over. 
 
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Beautiful Coincidence</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/22/a-beautiful-coincidence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Kilmer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know today is &#8220;World Car Free Day&#8220;? I didn&#8217;t either until a few hours ago. I learned this after my latest Viewpoint was published on the Buckeye Institute main page. The topic of my Viewpoint? The waste of taxpayer money that is passenger rail. Those who are celebrating World Car Free Day almost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update &#8211; Buckeye Institute&#8217;s Sample Language Used for Estate Tax Repeal</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/17/update-buckeye-institutes-sample-language-used-for-estate-tax-repeal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/09/17/update-buckeye-institutes-sample-language-used-for-estate-tax-repeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lauren Kresge</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[1851 Center]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=4471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Ohio Ballot Board certified the language for an initiated statute amendment to eliminate Ohio’s estate tax. The 1851 Center drafted sample language for the amendment that was adopted by Citizens United to End Ohio’s Estate Tax. With the Ballot Board’s approval, signatures can officially be collected to have the state legislature consider the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charter Schools vs. District Schools</title>
		<link>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/08/27/charter-schools-vs-district-schools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2009/08/27/charter-schools-vs-district-schools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:11:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Beth Lear</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The fight continues between public charter schools and public district schools, and it always seems to start with the unions throwing the first punch.  Yesterday&#8217;s Gongwer Report provided some detailed information about the state report cards, and the teachers&#8217; union acted as though they had body slammed their charter &#8220;opponents&#8221;.  Let&#8217;s consider some facts the [...]]]></description>
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