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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>Communications Lessons from Kim Jong Il</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/communication-lessons-from-kim-jong-il/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our sympathies go to the North Koreans we&#8217;ve seen on YouTube bawling inconsolably at the passing of Kim Jong Il, their &#8220;Dear Leader.&#8221;  We truly hope some day they will have a chance to understand how duped they were by the man who drank $700,000 worth of cognac a year while they slaved and starved.
That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Millennial Tweet</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/millennial-tweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[LP&A]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clutterinclarityout.com/?p=1244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Laer Pearce &#38; Associates&#8217; Twitter feed on water-related items, @LPAWater, just got its 1,000th follower.  (Actually, it now has 1,001 followers, but that would make headline writing more complicated.)
We&#8217;ve learned some lessons along the way.

Tweeting can be good for business.  We have one new water client from our tweeting &#8211; without those tweets, we would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Missed Message</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/a-missed-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks behind the Sacramento Delta water conveyance tunnel have a new message out that has a familiar ring:  Jobs. Heard that much lately?
Drilling large tunnels to divert water around the Delta would create more than 129,000 jobs, almost all of them during the seven-year construction period, according to a recent analysis.
The report by a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wholesale Species Listings Wholly Rotten</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/wholesale-species-listings-wholly-rotten/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<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>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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clutterinclarityout.com/?p=1091</guid>
		<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>&#8220;Turn Off the Water When You Brush&#8221; Just Ain&#8217;t Enough</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/turn-off-the-water-when-you-brush-just-aint-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://clutterinclarityout.com/turn-off-the-water-when-you-brush-just-aint-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 18:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LP&#38;A</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All around California, updated Urban Water Management Plans (UWMPs) are appearing, as required by state law.  Here&#8217;s the lead of a news story that &#8217;s typical of many we&#8217;ve seen in the last few weeks:
LAKEWOOD &#8211; The city is reminding residents to  stop watering sidewalks and conserve water for outdoor irrigation in an  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stinky Messaging Out of Chicago</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/stinky-messaging-out-of-chicago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 20:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clutterinclarityout.com/?p=1049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over a century ago, the good people of Chicago undertook an understandable bit of subjugating nature: They reversed the flow of local sewage-choked waterways, including the Chicago River, so they no longer flowed into Lake Michigan, the source of their drinking water.  And that was pretty much it for sewage treatment in Chicago.
It took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fact-Checking Democrats&#8217; Water Statement</title>
		<link>http://clutterinclarityout.com/fact-checking-democrats-water-statement/</link>
		<comments>http://clutterinclarityout.com/fact-checking-democrats-water-statement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 20:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clutterinclarityout.com/?p=1012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week&#8217;s Congressional water hearing in Fresno, if nothing else, produced thousands of acre-feet of hyperbole &#8211; if politically expedient but morally challenged statements can be measured that way.  The Natural Resource Defense Council&#8217;s particularly reprehensible propaganda is discussed in the post below; this post focuses on an article covering the position of Congressional Democrats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watered-Down Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:16:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>laer.pearce</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://clutterinclarityout.com/?p=989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting that the Natural Resource Defense Council&#8217;s blog is called &#8220;Switchboard,&#8221; since switchboards use electricity, and electricity is, you know, destroying the planet.  Be that as it may, the blog is often a source for remarkably thoughtful dissertations from an environmental perspective, so I read it regularly.
Today, however, Switchboard switched me back to the [...]]]></description>
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