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		<title>Public Agencies and Public Relations</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/public-agencies-and-public-relations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should public agencies use public relations firms?
Recent publicity about a PR firm’s plans to promote the San Diego Service Authority for Freeway Emergencies’ yellow call boxes (which aren’t used much anymore) would indicate the answer is no. The newly launched San Diego Watchdog column in the Union Tribune writes of the PR firm&#8217;s plan:
The marketing [...]]]></description>
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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>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>
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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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		<comments>http://clutterinclarityout.com/brown-takes-on-greens-over-some-anti-growth-litigation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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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>Public Agencies and Public Benefits</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/public-agencies-and-public-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[messaging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[compensation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clutterinclarityout.com/?p=897</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We can&#8217;t tell you how many times we&#8217;ve read through the comments posted on a news article about the compensation and benefits paid to the employees of public agencies only to find a slew of comments about how the agencies &#8220;operate in secret&#8221; and &#8220;work behind closed doors.&#8221;
That always strikes us as funny, because the [...]]]></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>Inside the Brown Horseshoe</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/inside-the-brown-horseshoe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it last week, Gov. Brown has released his &#8220;insider&#8221; appointments &#8211; the policy, press and legal folks that work &#8220;inside the horseshoe,&#8221; making the decisions and statements that will define the Brown Administration.
Our water and development clients should read Nancy McFadden&#8217;s bio very carefully, as the former PG&#38;E policy Senior VP [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nuttiest of NIMBYs</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/the-nuttiest-of-nimbys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 23:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when you thought things couldn&#8217;t possibly get any worse for NIMBYs &#8211; the Not-In-My-Back-Yard activists who have plummeted in decision-makers&#8217; perception from noble protectors of neighborhoods to crybabies wanting to win a big jackpot for their &#8220;hardship&#8221; &#8211; we came across this:
In their lawsuit, the homeowners say the project, which involves mixing soil and [...]]]></description>
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