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		<title>I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t live in a place like this.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/07/16/im-glad-i-dont-live-in-a-place-like-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:39:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this news story and thought, &#8220;How terrible. Why weren&#8217;t the locals outraged?&#8221;  Can you imagine the outcry if this sort of thing ever happened here?]]></description>
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		<title>Thank You, Great Barrington!</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/07/11/thank-you-great-barrington/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/07/11/thank-you-great-barrington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 17:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Environmental Protection Agency, large quantities of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) are entering our waterways.  Environmental agencies used to believe that the source was primarily industrial and agricultural, but recent evidence points the finger at residential sources. What do you do when you have unused prescription medications, or cosmetics, or common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News or Editorial?</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/07/07/news-or-editorial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield Airport]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Newspapers have  a responsibility to separate their news stories from their editorials.  When, on July 6, the Berkshire Eagle ran their supposed news story entitiled &#8220;Airport upgrade intended for all,&#8221; they were neglecting this responsibility.  First of all, what prompted this article.  If you read carefully, you will discover that the news event that prompted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsfield: Above the Law</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/06/27/pittsfield-above-the-law/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/06/27/pittsfield-above-the-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation Commissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield City Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wahconah Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=849</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wrote about a Pittsfield official telling the City Council that the City of Pittsfield had &#8220;elected&#8221; not to comply with state-mandated environmental monitoring regulations in an effort to save money.  In case you think this is an isolated incident, let me tell you about a few things that happened over the course [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Could Possibly Go Wrong?</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/06/20/what-could-possibly-go-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2010/06/20/what-could-possibly-go-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield City Government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that people, whether in an office in Pittsfield or on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, always think they understand public safety issues better than the regulators. Recently, Bruce Collingwood, Pittsfield&#8217;s Commissioner of Public Works and Utilities, stood before the city council during budget hearings to discuss the mayor&#8217;s new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Helping Wildlife Move Around the World</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/09/16/helping-wildlife-move-around-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/09/16/helping-wildlife-move-around-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Road Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wildlife Crossings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The ICOET (International Conference on Ecology and Transportation) is amazing. There are people from Mexico, Canada, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Cameroon, Norway, Portugal, France, Sweden, Taiwan, Ghana, India, Republic of Korea, Nigeria, and Switzerland, all working to help wildlife get across roads. I especially liked the photographs of wildlife crossing rope bridges over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News from the Conference</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/30/news-from-the-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/30/news-from-the-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jane Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Road Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wildlife Crossings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am writing from the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation in Duluth, MN at the west end of Lake Superior. The conference doesn&#8217;t really start until tomorrow (Monday 9/14) but I checked in this evening and attended the screening of &#8220;Division Street&#8221; with the filmmaker, Eric Bendick. Actually, we only screened 40 minutes of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I love baseball too, but&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/30/temp-title/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/30/temp-title/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation Commissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield City Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wahconah Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deming Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flooding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=752</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent Pittsfield Gazette story highlighted the controversy surrounding flooding in the area around Deming Park in Pittsfield. Local residents are angry over mistakes made by the Pittsfield Parks Commission and the Pittsfield Conservation Commission. A second, seemingly unrelated story has me concerned. According to the Gazette, &#8220;Ontario Street homeowners led by Dan Miraglia have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsfield:  We don&#8217;t make the floods; we make them worse.</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/29/pittsfield-we-dont-make-the-floods-we-make-them-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/29/pittsfield-we-dont-make-the-floods-we-make-them-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:16:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conservation Commissions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield City Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wahconah Park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wetlands]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pittsfield]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=472</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pittsfield has suffered from an unusual amount of flooding over the course of the past year. Of course nobody is blaming the City for the recent heavy rainfall. But the kind of extreme storms we have been experiencing lately may become more common in the future. Global climate-change models have been saying for years now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Culvert That Came Alive</title>
		<link>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/23/the-culvert-that-came-alive/</link>
		<comments>http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/2009/08/23/the-culvert-that-came-alive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Winn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Road Ecology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebeatnews.org/thoughts/?p=529</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[BEAT has been warning the City of Pittsfield about the dangers of undersized culverts. As I said in a previous post, &#8220;BEAT has also been arguing to apathetic ears that Pittsfield has been installing undersized culverts at road crossings. We hate to say &#8216;we told you so,&#8217; but part of the flooding is a result [...]]]></description>
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