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		<title>Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart On Boston&#8217;s July 4 Celebration</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After weeks of bad weather, Bostonians are more than ready to celebrate clearing skies -- and Independence Day. Boston Pops Conductor Keith Lockhart talks with WBUR's Steve Brown about what to expect from this year's concerts on the Charles River Esplanade.]]></description>
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		<title>Elderly Driver Causes Crash In Natick</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Officials say an 83-year-old woman drove her car through the front of a Natick liquor store this morning, pinning the 51-year-old cashier behind the counter.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Police Punished In Steroid Probe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eleven Boston police officers were punished as the result of an internal investigation on steroid use inside the department.]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Asks Why Prosecutors Released Photos Of Arrested Boston Lawmakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>ABIGAIL BESHKIN</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A federal judge has ordered prosecutors to explain why photos and other information were released in connection with the arrests of former Sen. Dianne Wilkerson and Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner. ]]></description>
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		<title>Psychiatric Units Across Mass. Face Shut Down</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/mental-health-care</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>BOB OAKES</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Community hospitals across Massachusetts have closed or are considering closing their psychiatric units and some of Boston's teaching hospitals are worried about how they'll keep their psychiatric units afloat. Dr. Paul Summergrad, head of the psychiatry department at Tufts Medical Center, explains why the problem is so acute. ]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Symphony Orchestra Kicks Off Tanglewood Season</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/tanglewood-preview</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>ED SIEGEL</strong> and <strong>BOB OAKES</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra open the Tanglewood season this weekend with Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” among others, but Morning Edition critic-at-large Ed Siegel has beaten them out to the Berkshires. 
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		<title>Green Energy Co. Makes For An Unexpectedly Noisy Neighbor</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/evergreen-solar</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>SACHA PFEIFFER</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WBUR's Sacha Pfeiffer reports on how a new solar panel factory at Fort Devens is causing an unexpected problem for its neighbors. ]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Army Ends Backpack Contract With New Bedford Factory</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/factory-closing-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>BIANCA VAZQUEZ TONESS</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Workers have been fighting to keep open a New Bedford factory that makes military backpacks. The factory is still closing at the end of this month, but perhaps not for the reasons workers and lawmakers have thought. WBUR's Bianca Vazquez Toness reports. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Health Cuts Put Strain On Melrose Emergency Room</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/02/mental-health-er</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>FRED THYS</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[State budget cuts in mental health and substance abuse prevention programs are putting a strain on one town's emergency room-- and its police department. WBUR's Fred Thys reports. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Has Second-Lowest Adult Obesity Rate In Country, Study Finds</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/01/adult-obesity</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:13:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>SACHA PFEIFFER</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WBUR's Sacha Pfeiffer has details on a new report showing that Massachusetts has the second-lowest rate of adult obesity nationwide.]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Unveils Ocean Management Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/07/01/oceans-management</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:10:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>BOB OAKES</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, the state is unveiling what it calls a landmark ocean management plan, which would set up zones for off-shore wind farm development, while making other areas off limits. Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles joined WBUR to talk about the plan.]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Archdiocese Cuts Benefits Of Sick, Retired Priests</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/priest-pensions-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>MONICA BRADY-MYEROV</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Archdiocese has admitted that within two years, it won't have the money to pay for the care and housing of its elderly and sick priests, unless major changes are made. As a result, starting Wednesday, those priests are having their benefits cut. WBUR's Monica Brady-Myerov reports. ]]></description>
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		<title>Is Boston.com The Jewel In The Globe&#8217;s Crown?</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/boston-dot-com</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>CURT NICKISCH</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In all the talk about the Boston Globe, Boston.com hardly gets a mention. But the shining success is financially relatively healthy and may prove the cornerstone of a turnaround strategy for any future owner of the Boston Globe. WBUR's Curt Nickisch reports. ]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers Urged To Restrict Elderly Drivers</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/elderly-driving-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>SACHA PFEIFFER</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WBUR's Sacha Pfeiffer reports that state law makers heard testimony today urging them them to put restrictions on older drivers. WBUR's Sacha Pfeiffer reports.]]></description>
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		<title>Reverse Discrimination Ruling Could Affect Mass. Cases</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/new-haven-ruling</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>TED SIEFER</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A Supreme Court ruling Monday supporting the reverse-discrimination claims of a group of mostly white firemen in New Haven, Conn. could have implications for similar cases in Massachusetts.]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Weak Economy Bad For Public Health</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/health-study</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>SACHA PFEIFFER</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WBUR's Sacha Pfeiffer has details on a new study calling for a large-scale public health campaign in Massachusetts to stop unhealthy behaviors that appear to be caused by the weak economy.]]></description>
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		<title>Dreams Of Casinos Return To Beacon Hill</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/gambling-again</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>FRED THYS</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With casinos' biggest opponent, former House Speaker Sal Di Masi, out of the way, supporters of gambling are getting ready to pass legislation this fall, but the economy is not cooperating. WBUR's Fred Thys reports. ]]></description>
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		<title>Wet, Cloudy June Is Water-Logging Farms Across Massachusetts</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/rain-impact</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>BOB OAKES</strong>, <strong>SARAH BUSH</strong> and <strong>JESSIE MARTIN</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Unusually wet and cloudy days are water-logging many area farms. WBUR's Bob Oakes reports. ]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. Turnpike Rescinds Major Toll Increase</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/30/pike-tolls</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority has four months to live. Transportation Secretary James Aloisi said Monday that the new Massachusetts Department of Transportation is expected to take over Turnpike operations in November. WBUR's Meghna Chakrabarti reports. 
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		<title>Patrick Signs Sales Tax Increase, Sends Back $147M In Vetoes</title>
		<link>http://www.wbur.org/2009/06/29/state-budget-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>By <strong>MARTHA BEBINGER</strong></dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The sales tax in Massachusetts will increase 25 percent on August 1 now that Gov. Patrick has signed a budget bill for the fiscal year that begins Wednesday. WBUR’s Martha Bebinger has more.]]></description>
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