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		<title>This week&#8217;s lead story: Adios, 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.northcoastnews.com/2008/12/30/this-weeks-lead-story-adios-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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Highlights of a rocky year
 
 
 
 
 
(Photo of Mayor Dean Bunkers by Jonathan Olson)
Many of us are happy to see the end of 2008, a year in which a global recession was felt, acutely, on a local level.
Ocean Shores and the North Beach struggled through what might be euphemistically called a “challenging” (in place of many more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Hall sneak peek</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[preview of this week&#8217;s lead story, on the City Hall buy/sell deal:
City Hall Buy/Sell:
Good wash, or bad &#8220;bath&#8221;?
 
 
By Tom Scanlon
Editor, North Coast News
It was going to be a great “flip.”
The plan was for Ocean Shores to sell its old City Hall for about what the new one would cost.
“It’s going to be a wash,” then-Mayor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another McEachin letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Scanlon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[from Rich McEachin, who prefaced it with &#8220;this is my final letter to the editor&#8221;:
Letter to Editor:
It’s ironic that anyone can possibly think one person, me, could cause the financial problems Ocean Shores is having today.  The reality is the blame lies with the taxpayers of the State of Washington. They are the ones that [...]]]></description>
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