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		<title>Unintended Consequences</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday morning after outlining our 2012 PR plan to senior managers at The Management Trust &#8211; the largest community management company west of the Mississippi &#8211; I got a good lesson in the unintended consequences of bureaucratic meddling.  It wasn&#8217;t from one of the TMT guys &#8211; it was from a food vendor in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crazifornia: Regulating the rockets’ red glare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LP&#38;A</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article by Laer appears on today&#8217;s Daily Caller website:
It should come as no surprise that the leftist legislators and  authoritarian bureaucrats who run California are vehemently opposed to  fireworks shows. After all, the shows are always fun and usually  patriotic.
 
And against them they are. The California Coastal Commission has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wholesale Species Listings Wholly Rotten</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clutterinclarityout.com/?p=1145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We never thought we&#8217;d write one of those sophomoric &#8220;What do X and Y have in common&#8221; leads, but never say never. Here we go:
What do the Amargosa tryonia, American wolverine, ashy storm petrel, Big Bar hesperian, black-footed albatross, Brand’s phacelia, California golden trout, canary duskysnail, Casey’s June beetle, cinnamon juga, disjunct pebblesnail, flat-top pebblesnail, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Clarity, Look to the Source</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Credit Rating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Airwaves over the weekend were choked with name-calling, blame and recrimination regarding Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s downgrading of US debt, and the clatter is only going to get louder as stock markets around the word suffer big losses today.
There is no clarity when fingers are stabbing, tongues are wagging and ears are closed.  At times like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown Takes on Greens over (Some) Anti-Growth Litigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Brown almost sounded like a frustrated land developer earlier today when he talked about the impact litigation by environmental activists has on projects that are essential to meeting California&#8217;s demographic growth and protecting its frail economy.  Unfortunately, he wasn&#8217;t talking about the ecos&#8217; endless legal challenges to new housing developments.
From the Sacramento Bee:
&#8220;In Oakland, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Exactly is the OC Watchdog Biting?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ll get to that bikini photo in a minute, but first, let&#8217;s all wish the OC Watchdog blog  in the OC Register a happy third birthday &#8211; even if it has caused many Laer Pearce &#38; Associates clients and lots of others a fair amount of heartburn.  The blog&#8217;s mission has been to write on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As If We Hadn&#8217;t Waited Long Enough</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/as-if-we-hadnt-waited-enough/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 01:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LP&#38;A</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clutterinclarityout.com/?p=1023</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re like us (i.e. obsessive communicators), there’s a good chance you were frustrated at last night’s historic speech when President Obama informed an anxious nation that our brave soldiers took out Osama bin Laden.
The keyword here is “anxious.”  News leaked out over Twitter more than an hour before Obama took the podium.  Cable and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Excuse Me, Is Your Mission Creeping?</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/excuse-me-is-your-mission-creeping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LP&#38;A</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal wetland regulators suffered a bad decade in the 2000s with the Rapanos and SWANCC decisions temporarily halting EPA and Corps of Engineers mission creep into the regulation of land no one but a regulator could consider to be &#8220;Waters of the US&#8221; or wetlands.
But like those nasty spirits in Poltergeist, they&#8217;re baaa-aack.
EPA released today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jerry&#8217;s Jack Benny Moment</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/jerrys-jack-benny-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clutterinclarityout.com/?p=880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They should drop Bob Hope&#8217;s name from Burbank&#8217;s airport terminal and put up Jack Benny&#8217;s.  Benny, as younger readers may not recall, made a career out of humor based on his obsessive frugality &#8211; well, cheapness, to be more exact.  I was reminded of him this week when Gov. Jerry Brown emerged from the terminal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California&#8217;s Universities are the Best</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/californias-universities-are-the-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, a survey has shown that through diligence, hard work and unending commitment, California&#8217;s universities &#8211; Berkeley in particular &#8211; are the best in the whole wide world.  Unfortunately, it&#8217;s for all the wrong reasons.  Here&#8217;s why:
The University of California, Berkeley, has been crowned top &#8230; of the world’s most environmentally friendly higher education  [...]]]></description>
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