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			<title>Md. lobbyist with seven DUIs ordered freed</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A Maryland lobbyist with seven drunken-driving convictions who has represented the Prince George's County Council and Sheriff's Department was ordered released Wednesday after 36 days in jail. -- <i>By Maria Glod and Jonathan Mummolo, November 19, 2009, Washington Post</i>]]></description>
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			<title>Va. shifts scarce road funds to priority projects</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Virginia transportation officials are moving hundreds of millions of dollars from secondary and urban road projects to higher priority Interstate and primary highways. -- <i>November 18, 2009, WTOP</i>]]></description>
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			<title>Montgomery Council favors rail for transitway</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The Montgomery County Council appears poised to recommend a light-rail transit system for its Corridor Cities Transitway over a less costly Bus Rapid Transit system. -- <i>By Erin Cunningham, November 16, 2009, Gazette.Net</i>]]></description>
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			<title>Gas tax hike dead in Va.</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[House speaker Bill Howell says the election of Bob McDonnell as governor pretty much killed the issue. -- <i>By Hank Silverberg, November 16, 2009, WTOP</i>]]></description>
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			<title> Pessimism abounds that McDonnell can fix transportation</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell won election as governor on the promise of digging Virginia out of its transportation mess, without raising a cent of new taxes. But the Republican governor-elect's plan to fund a languishing road and rail network has done little to spark optimism that his administration will succeed where others have failed. -- <i>By William C. Flook, November 12, 2009, Examiner</i>]]></description>
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			<title>Arlington pressured to settle HOT lanes suit</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Arlington County is getting pressure from Fairfax County to settle a lawsuit that has stalled the High Occupancy Toll lanes project for Interstate 95/395. -- <i>By Hank Silverberg, November 11, 2009, WTOP</i>]]></description>
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			<title>Smart growth: 12 years later, a work in progress</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Faced with a study that found a major piece of the state's smart growth policy is not working, Parris N. Glendening this week defended the landmark land-use legislation that he pushed into practice as governor a dozen years ago. -- <i>By Sean R. Sedam, November 6, 2009, Gazette.Net</i>]]></description>
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