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		<title>It Is With Great Sadness That I End My Fourteen-Year Career With The Shelter</title>
		<link>http://www.theamericanwrites.com/2011/09/it-is-with-great-sadness-that-i-end-my-fourteen-year-career-with-the-shelter1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 05:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melissa Ball&#8217;s Letter of Resignation click above to open the pdf Obtained via Open Records Request from the City of Bryan. I am keeping the anonymous copies anonymous, to protect my sources. However, according to those copies,the redacted part says &#8220;medical leave,&#8221; just so&#8217;s you know. I will let us all read and cogitate upon [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Have The Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some folks don&#8217;t think I have the resignation letter. In response to that I offer the cover letter from Gaines West, attorney for Melissa Ball, which was hand delivered to Patricia Merenoff, attorney for The Brazos Animal Shelter, Inc. Unfortunately, I did not give the Paralyzed Ten a deadline for taking care of business. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BAS &amp; Bryan: All You Need To Know.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Brazos Animal Shelter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of Bryan is hiring. They are hiring an Animal Shelter Technician, and an Animal Shelter Manager. There will be no contract between the City and the Brazos Animal Shelter. I may be telling you why soon, though I have known for several weeks. It depends on one person, and one person only. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Matter Of Perspective</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 01:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Brazos Animal Shelter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bryan City Council Shoots Itself In Its Paw]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several faithful Write&#124;Ins have emailed me these last few months, inquiring about various topics and my current slate of work &#8211; and what&#8217;s the next big project. It seems some folks miss my regular posts that were going on during the height of the Brazos Animal Shelter (BAS) fiasco with the City of Bryan, coordinated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Time Coming Out Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 05:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I went to Good Time Charley’s in Downtown Bryan for a meeting of the local Democratic Party. Shocked? I know, I know…but bear with me… See, I’m friends with Judy Leunes, who is the President of the Brazos Animal Shelter. She was giving a presentation about the Shelter, and then was going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Representative Fred Brown’s Spam-A-Lot</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like Texas House District 14 Representative Fred Brown. I’ve even encouraged you to do as I have done, and vote for him. Unfortunately, Mr. Brown is losing my confidence in effectiveness as a leader of his own office. And in his effectiveness as a Representative. So, this is one of those posts where you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something We Lost. Something We Won.</title>
		<link>http://www.theamericanwrites.com/2011/04/something-we-lost-something-we-won/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, The Spirit of Aggieland returned to His rightful home. On November 18, 1999 at 6:35 in the morning, my wife and I awoke to the sound of the phone ringing. She was eight months pregnant with our first child, and moving was hard, let alone rolling over to reach the phone. So I grabbed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>URGENT: PRAYERS NEEDED!</title>
		<link>http://www.theamericanwrites.com/2011/03/urgent-prayers-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Brazos Animal Shelter]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brooks&#8217; and Southerland faction of the Winograd movement, in their pitiful action at Bryan&#8217;s Council Meeting on Tuesday, apparently think their alliance with Care Corp will amount to nothing, as they believe they will not get the Animal Sheltering Contract. Apparently Mike Southerland told them it was a slam dunk. It is not. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter To The City Of Bryan Staff</title>
		<link>http://www.theamericanwrites.com/2011/03/an-open-letter-to-the-city-of-bryan-staff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 18:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AmericanWriter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sent this letter this morning. I will let it stand on its own merits. From: Kristofer Cowles &#8211; American Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2011 11:45 AM To: &#8216;Walker, Hugh R&#8217;; &#8216;Stratta, Mary L&#8217; Cc: &#8216;Ramirez, Jody&#8217;; &#8216;Picha, Dale&#8217;; &#8216;Kaspar, W. Paul&#8217;; &#8216;Monnat, Susan&#8217;; &#8216;Bienski, Jason&#8217;; &#8216;Southerland, Mike&#8217;; &#8216;Konderla, Chuck&#8217;; &#8216;rcortez@bryantx.gov&#8217;; &#8216;pmadison@bryantx.gov&#8217;; &#8216;ahorton@bryantx.gov&#8217;; &#8216;ahughes@bryantx.gov&#8217; Subject: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twenty Minutes With Phil Shackelford</title>
		<link>http://www.theamericanwrites.com/2011/03/twenty-minutes-with-phil-shackelford/</link>
		<comments>http://www.theamericanwrites.com/2011/03/twenty-minutes-with-phil-shackelford/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 23:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AmericanWriter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress Watch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who? Phil Shackelford served as former Congressman Chet Edwards’ Field Representative in the Bryan, Texas office of Mr. Edwards. When Chet lost the election last November, his staff was given a sixty-day notice by the citizens of Texas District 17. When we fire our Congressional Representatives, we fire their staff, as well. It’s easy to [...]]]></description>
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