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20 August 2011

Playing in Traffic, August 15 to 19, 2011

There will be some other big news next week, but for now, here’s what SRBP readers wanted this past week:

  1. Sun TV/Fix News wannabe?  VOCM hits new low.  (The story disappeared the next day)
  2. Westcott packs it in.
  3. Bloc NDP MP backs Tory Dunderdale
  4. Separated at birth:  the eyes have it edition
  5. No man is an island:  Mount Pearl edition  (Kent changed his website within two days)
  6. A cause for grave concern
  7. Feds to announce MOU on loan guarantee
  8. Three parties, two leaders, one policy, no sense
  9. Then again…election news mine edition
  10. Great Gambols with Public Money:  Sprung Cukes 4

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