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	<title>The Ole Seagull &#187; Taney County</title>
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		<title>Carpetbaggery in store for the Taney County Commission elections?</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2012/01/carpetbaggery-in-store-for-the-taney-county-commission-elections-branson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:23:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seemed surreal, almost as if the Ole Seagull wasn&#8217;t actually in the crowded room in Branson filled with some of Branson&#8217;s biggest power brokers and a sprinkling of others. Although, it was as if they didn&#8217;t even notice him, he was surprised he was there because lowly Seagulls are not normally invited to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taney County Assessor James Strahan and The Ole Seagull &#8220;trick-or-treating&#8221; together</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In examining the opinion piece appearing in the October 23 edition of the Branson Tri-Lakes News by James Strahan, Taney County Assessor (Strahan) entitled, &#8220;Assessor&#8217;s office should remain&#8221; the Ole Seagull was reminded of an Abraham Lincoln quote. The quote says, &#8220;I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Yes&#8221; means &#8220;No&#8221; and &#8220;No&#8221; means &#8220;Yes&#8221; or &#8221; How much additional authority do you want to give the city of Branson to tax you and your property?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/10/yes-means-no-and-no-means-yes-or-how-much-additional-authority-do-you-want-to-give-the-city-of-branson-to-tax-you-and-your-property/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Missouri voters going to the polls in the November election will have to vote &#8220;Yes&#8221; for &#8220;No&#8221; and &#8220;No for &#8220;Yes&#8221; on two important issues relating to their pocket books. Remember always the Ole Seagull&#8217;s warning, &#8220;We promise that if you vote for this we will do that.&#8221; &#8220;What the heck does that mean?&#8221; &#8220;By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which office should be dissolved &#8220;County Assessor&#8221; or &#8220;Planning and Zoning?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/10/which-office-should-be-dissolved-county-assessor-or-planning-and-zoning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 11:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent headline in this paper blared out &#8220;Assessor calls for vote to dissolve P &#38; Z department.&#8221; The first paragraph of the article stated &#8220;Taney County Assessor James Strahan called on the county commission to place an initiative on the ballot to dissolve the county’s Planning and Zoning Department but before the day was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kid&#8217;s hunger trumps behavior of Taney County Commissioners as pathetic story of the week</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/09/kids-hunger-trumps-behavior-of-taney-county-commissioners-as-pathetic-story-of-the-week/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/09/kids-hunger-trumps-behavior-of-taney-county-commissioners-as-pathetic-story-of-the-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 10:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Ole Seagull&#8217;s prayer would be that if you remember nothing else from this column that you would ask yourself what you would do if you were the teacher in the following scenario. It&#8217;s Monday morning, you look up from your desk into the distressed eyes of one of your first grade students who says, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is there &#8220;any love in the room&#8221; for splitting Taney County into two different counties?</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/09/is-there-any-love-in-the-room-for-splitting-taney-county-into-two-different-counties/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/09/is-there-any-love-in-the-room-for-splitting-taney-county-into-two-different-counties/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:19:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a 2005 column entitled, &#8220;&#8216;Free at last,&#8217; a new Freeus County formed from the western portion of Taney County?&#8221; the Ole Seagull wrote, &#8220;Ok, let’s get to the nubbin of it, eastern and western Taney County live in two different worlds. An outsider watching what has been transpiring recently would sense the same thing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>25 Questions of interest to Branson and Taney County residents and businesses?</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/01/25-questions-of-interest-to-branson-and-taney-county-residents-and-businesses/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2010/01/25-questions-of-interest-to-branson-and-taney-county-residents-and-businesses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an Ole Seagull’s perspective, the answers to most of the following questions should be of interest to many of the citizens and businesses of Branson and Taney County for what he believes are obvious reasons. But then, what does an Ole Seagull know?
1. Has the Branson Landing TIF raised enough revenue so that, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten reasons why an Ole Seagull would be toast in politics</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2009/09/ten-reasons-why-an-ole-seagull-would-be-toast-in-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2009/09/ten-reasons-why-an-ole-seagull-would-be-toast-in-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 09:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The OleSeagull</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theoleseagull.com/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally, someone asks, “Why don’t you run for office?” To that the Ole Seagull most often replies that he is unelectable. The next question is, “Why?” The answer to that is simple, call it a brain defect or whatever, but the Ole Seagull does not have the ability or self control to substitute being politically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Tiger or the East West Corridor a gamble is still a gamble</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2009/08/a-tiger-or-the-east-west-corridor-a-gamble-is-still-a-gamble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 11:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The East West Corridor or the road the Ole Seagull calls “The Road to Maybe Halfway Somewhere” is scheduled to be discussed. The discussion relates to a potential gamble of up to $400,000 of county tax payer funds to see if Taney County can get a stimulus grant for a portion of it and will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little bit of signs, “What a County” and other stuff</title>
		<link>http://theoleseagull.com/2009/07/a-little-bit-of-signs-what-a-county-and-other-stuff/</link>
		<comments>http://theoleseagull.com/2009/07/a-little-bit-of-signs-what-a-county-and-other-stuff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:20:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many interesting things going on that impact on Branson area residents that it was too hard to pick just one so let’s do a “little bit of this and a little bit of that.”
SIGNS SHOULDN’T BE A GAMBLE – Interesting, a small city business recently had its private directional signs unceremoniously removed [...]]]></description>
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