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		<title>Small Independent Businesses</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look at two web sites. www.350project.net and www.10%shift.org.
Both of these organizations have interesting approaches to keeping small Independent businesses alive. The 3-50 Project asks that you choose 3 local independent businesses that you would miss if they were not around and commit to spending $50.00 total at these three businesses each month. The 10% Shift [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&blog=3080085&post=67&subd=jefftrucks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death in the family, part three</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s strange dealing with death. I wasn&#8217;t close to this person but people I care a lot about were. I feel the loss and the pain. It&#8217;s difficult to keep running different scenarios through your head about what happened and what could have been done to avoid it. Even though, intellectually, I know there is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&blog=3080085&post=64&subd=jefftrucks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death in the Family, part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m still in a state of shock. We all know people who have problems. We help, offer help, ignore, turn the blind eye, whatever our response but we never expect a quick death.
A mother, age 52, with a son at home should not die.
I worry that family members will want to take the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&blog=3080085&post=61&subd=jefftrucks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death in the Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Trucks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sister-in-law died last night. She had been battling drinking demons for a few years and last night the demons won.
She left behind two sons and one daughter. Two of the children are out of the house and on their own, the youngest at 16 is still at home. He&#8217;s very angry with his mother.
When I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&blog=3080085&post=51&subd=jefftrucks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The economy and Rural Michigan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 03:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Trucks</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is bad. The news tells us of the big problems, the automakers, the banks, the housing market, and they, so far, have ignored the small towns. Well, I&#8217;m here to tell you they are hurting.
Our business is in the business of serving the other businesses in our area. We see layoffs, strikes, closures, and slowdowns. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jefftrucks.wordpress.com&blog=3080085&post=49&subd=jefftrucks&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like I have met a hundred women like Sarah Palin in some ways. Conservative, family oriented women. Strong, religious, hunting, fishing, and snowmobiling women. It seems like they are everywhere and they are very good people. They are fun to be with, they are good with their family, they are honest, good citizens.
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		<title>Allman Brothers Band</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My brother and his daughter are in Denver this weekend for the Allman Brothers Band concert. Double T has befriended Butch Trucks from the band. There is a Google Group for all people with the last name TRUCKS. Double T and Butch became friends through this group and he invited her to come to the concert.
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