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  <title type="text">ittakesgrit Google Group</title>
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  G.R.I.T. (Govt. Responsibility, Integrity and Truth) informs &amp; educates taxpayers via Public Disclosure documents, transcriptions and audio of public mtgs. &amp; hearings, and acts as a watchdog for city governments located along the U.S. 2 corridor in east Snohomish County WA.
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  <updated>2005-10-14T20:40:00Z</updated>
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  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>sultanfriend@yahoo.com</name>
  <email>sultanfri...@yahoo.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-10-14T20:40:00Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/3d8173e4fba0a359/0494d740d61442ec?show_docid=0494d740d61442ec</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/3d8173e4fba0a359/0494d740d61442ec?show_docid=0494d740d61442ec"/>
  <title type="text">Broughton Manor</title>
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  Doe&#39;s anyone know who is responsible for fixing the cracked sidewalk &lt;br&gt; approach to this development? Is this another cost the taxpayer&#39;s are &lt;br&gt; going to have to pay for? I hope not! I hope these things are inspected &lt;br&gt; and not by old family friends.
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  <author>
  <name>Group Owner</name>
  <email>g...@direcway.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-10-06T11:47:39Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/34a707d1684d075c/6997d792e6458ddf?show_docid=6997d792e6458ddf</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/34a707d1684d075c/6997d792e6458ddf?show_docid=6997d792e6458ddf"/>
  <title type="text">Re: liberal</title>
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  Note from Group Owner: I have allowed this posting MOSTLY because it &lt;br&gt; concerns (loosely)the future of farming and agricultural land (and, &lt;br&gt; ultimately, such lands remaining for that purpose). Thus, this is at &lt;br&gt; least a timely subject, considering this week&#39;s county council hearings &lt;br&gt; on our 10-year Comprehensive Plan update. How the council deals with
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  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>thatsalarf</name>
  <email>thest...@earthlink.net</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-10-06T01:42:53Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/34a707d1684d075c/0da8e49542e880c0?show_docid=0da8e49542e880c0</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/34a707d1684d075c/0da8e49542e880c0?show_docid=0da8e49542e880c0"/>
  <title type="text">liberal</title>
  <summary type="html" xml:space="preserve">
  Next time someone calls you a Liberal. Thank them. &lt;br&gt; It seems bombs are worth more then Life. Lets hope the people that read &lt;br&gt; this are never poor. &lt;br&gt; NexCongress Seeks to Cut Food Aid for Poor &lt;br&gt; October 05, 2005 4:13 PM EDT &lt;br&gt; WASHINGTON - Under orders to cut agriculture spending by $3 billion, &lt;br&gt; Republicans in Congress have proposed reducing food programs for the
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  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>Old Timer</name>
  <email>jose_j...@hotmail.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-09-26T19:53:54Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/3a1f821dc2edd405?show_docid=3a1f821dc2edd405</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/3a1f821dc2edd405?show_docid=3a1f821dc2edd405"/>
  <title type="text">Re: OK, this board is NOT working....</title>
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  I got an idea... it is time to get with the new school on the &lt;br&gt; internet... maybe it would be better if you did this newfangled blog &lt;br&gt; thingy... You can still do links, and your stories, but then you have &lt;br&gt; the ability to have comments realted to specific articles, and you can &lt;br&gt; keep the chinese hackers out... Just a thought....
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  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>thatsalarf</name>
  <email>thest...@earthlink.net</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-09-22T12:43:10Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/2f8560e6695e0ce8/79fdfef16b72f4fb?show_docid=79fdfef16b72f4fb</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/2f8560e6695e0ce8/79fdfef16b72f4fb?show_docid=79fdfef16b72f4fb"/>
  <title type="text">Re: Russell Van Wyngarden</title>
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  Stay calm old timer. The demonization of the web master has been going &lt;br&gt; on for years by people like you that hide behind the mask of a computer &lt;br&gt; screen. What she has done is change the way Sultan does business. It is &lt;br&gt; not so easy to be an old timer anymore. As for Mr. Van Wyngarden, he is &lt;br&gt; just an old time teacher,most likely buds with Mr. Boucher, who settled
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  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>Group Owner</name>
  <email>g...@direcway.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-09-22T11:48:19Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/2f8560e6695e0ce8/0f01693b61629db2?show_docid=0f01693b61629db2</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/2f8560e6695e0ce8/0f01693b61629db2?show_docid=0f01693b61629db2"/>
  <title type="text">Re: Russell Van Wyngarden</title>
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  I find your perspective a bit curious: How can someone be &amp;quot;demonized&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt; by reminding folks of the part he played in the 60-acre proposed Van &lt;br&gt; Wyngarden annexation by Barclays North? Are you afraid of knowledge? &lt;br&gt; I do not know Mr. Van Wyngarden, so I have no opinion of him. But Big &lt;br&gt; Kudos to him for teaching our children, a VERY tough job these days.
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  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>Group Owner</name>
  <email>g...@direcway.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-09-22T11:41:33Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/e4d3137f0b719a01?show_docid=e4d3137f0b719a01</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/e4d3137f0b719a01?show_docid=e4d3137f0b719a01"/>
  <title type="text">Re: OK, this board is NOT working....</title>
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  I&#39;m glad you find amusement in our website. Lord knows, us little &lt;br&gt; taxpayers these days have little enough to give us a chuckle, so I try &lt;br&gt; to do my part. &lt;br&gt; If you like free entertainment (as the G.R.I.T. website and forum is &lt;br&gt; now and always has been), I also highly recommend attendance at all the &lt;br&gt; public hearings, workshops and &amp;quot;Planning&amp;quot; Commission and City Council
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  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>Old Timer</name>
  <email>jose_j...@hotmail.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-09-21T22:41:12Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/2f8560e6695e0ce8/fded2199c3e7560d?show_docid=fded2199c3e7560d</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/2f8560e6695e0ce8/fded2199c3e7560d?show_docid=fded2199c3e7560d"/>
  <title type="text">Russell Van Wyngarden</title>
  <summary type="html" xml:space="preserve">
  You question is...&amp;quot;Notice of Application - Russell Van Wyngarden for a &lt;br&gt; 7-lot Cluster subdivision on 17.9 acres near U. S. 2. (The applicant&#39;s &lt;br&gt; name is Russell Van Wyngarden. Sound familiar?&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt; Yes very familiar. He is a wonderful guy that has served the Sultan &lt;br&gt; area as a teacher in it&#39;s schools for MANY years. Thanks for trying to
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  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>The Dude</name>
  <email>jeffkirk...@earthlink.net</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-09-20T20:22:45Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/4b64a9aabae4132c?show_docid=4b64a9aabae4132c</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/4b64a9aabae4132c?show_docid=4b64a9aabae4132c"/>
  <title type="text">Re: OK, this board is NOT working....</title>
  <summary type="html" xml:space="preserve">
  Hey, now, as you well know, the growth philosophy (based on some &lt;br&gt; unknown concept) is that in Sultan when new homes are built there are &lt;br&gt; no impacts on the community, plain and simple. Every new development &lt;br&gt; happens in a vacuum, and when all of the buildable lands have been &lt;br&gt; built out, then by some miracle industry and retail outfits will fill
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  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>Old Timer</name>
  <email>jose_j...@hotmail.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-09-21T18:40:18Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/dc90ed685f062bb2?show_docid=dc90ed685f062bb2</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/dc90ed685f062bb2?show_docid=dc90ed685f062bb2"/>
  <title type="text">Re: OK, this board is NOT working....</title>
  <summary type="html" xml:space="preserve">
  I think you had an ok thing going when you started, but your commentary &lt;br&gt; is starting to sound like a bitter woman&#39;s ramblings... &lt;br&gt; The comments on demanding that your political site should be given the &lt;br&gt; same credence and appreciation as the sportsmans club and the flip flop &lt;br&gt; of one week Laura does great with sending things out, and the next
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  </entry>
  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>Nick</name>
  <email>aresamplesca...@aol.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-09-05T12:23:49Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/72e273d7630c215f/fe22104bfbde2917?show_docid=fe22104bfbde2917</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/72e273d7630c215f/fe22104bfbde2917?show_docid=fe22104bfbde2917"/>
  <title type="text">HeraldNet: Big enrollment growth propels Marysville bond</title>
  <summary type="html" xml:space="preserve">
  HeraldNet: Big enrollment growth propels Marysville bond &lt;br&gt; &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=nofollow href=&quot;http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/05/09/05/100loc_bond001.cfm&quot;&gt;[link]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br&gt; HeraldNet: 09/05/05 &lt;br&gt; &amp;quot;It&#39;s you can pay me now or pay me later, and the cost ... is just &lt;br&gt; going to go up,&amp;quot; Dragich said.&amp;quot; &lt;br&gt; How about letting the County Council majority&#39;s version of &amp;quot;The
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  </entry>
  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>Group Owner</name>
  <email>g...@direcway.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-09-20T12:22:07Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/a9ded8a9cccaa739?show_docid=a9ded8a9cccaa739</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/a9ded8a9cccaa739?show_docid=a9ded8a9cccaa739"/>
  <title type="text">Re: OK, this board is NOT working....</title>
  <summary type="html" xml:space="preserve">
  Re the discussion forum&#39;s lack of use, you are correct. One reason &lt;br&gt; is that I have limited its use and tightly moderate the comments I &lt;br&gt; receive, many of which I do not post due to what I consider to be &lt;br&gt; inappropriate content. However, it&#39;s my understanding that Ron &lt;br&gt; Wiediger will be starting a website as a new Sultan councilman and has
  </summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>Old Timer</name>
  <email>jose_j...@hotmail.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-09-19T18:36:32Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/3bf70abebd1a953d?show_docid=3bf70abebd1a953d</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/7be9758f21ac8fb4/3bf70abebd1a953d?show_docid=3bf70abebd1a953d"/>
  <title type="text">OK, this board is NOT working....</title>
  <summary type="html" xml:space="preserve">
  you either have blown all the hot air that people care to listen to, or &lt;br&gt; the google board sucks so bad that nobody wants to be on it... I would &lt;br&gt; try to assume it has something to do with the google board. &lt;br&gt; Can you try something else? Maybe you can get some fire under your near &lt;br&gt; defunct website.
  </summary>
  </entry>
  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>thatsalarf</name>
  <email>thest...@earthlink.net</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-08-15T03:07:01Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/0ff3844bd31648da/4e811188771f9d3d?show_docid=4e811188771f9d3d</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/0ff3844bd31648da/4e811188771f9d3d?show_docid=4e811188771f9d3d"/>
  <title type="text">Re: WILDSKY WA vs WILD HERITAGE CA</title>
  <summary type="html" xml:space="preserve">
  WILD SKY WILDERNESS ACT OF 2005 &lt;br&gt; &lt;p&gt; The Senate proceeded to consider the bill (S. 152) to enhance &lt;br&gt; ecosystem protection and the range of outdoor opportunities &lt;br&gt; &lt;p&gt;How can you disagree with this? To &amp;quot;Enhance means increase in value. &lt;br&gt; To add to the effect. It is written in the act. it is our job to make
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  </entry>
  <entry>
  <author>
  <name>Group Owner</name>
  <email>g...@direcway.com</email>
  </author>
  <updated>2005-08-12T12:52:20Z</updated>
  <id>http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/0ff3844bd31648da/4db974298e58dc15?show_docid=4db974298e58dc15</id>
  <link href="http://groups.google.com/group/grit/browse_thread/thread/0ff3844bd31648da/4db974298e58dc15?show_docid=4db974298e58dc15"/>
  <title type="text">Re: WILDSKY WA vs WILD HERITAGE CA</title>
  <summary type="html" xml:space="preserve">
  By asking those questions, the conclusions you have drawn are partially &lt;br&gt; correct. You will NOT be able to ride dirt bikes or use motorized &lt;br&gt; vehicles (which includes ATVs and Snowmobiles) in the Wild &lt;br&gt; Sky-designated area. &lt;br&gt; However, you WILL still be able to hunt in Wild Sky because the &lt;br&gt; underlying federal land designation is NATIONAL FOREST, not NATIONAL
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