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      <title><![CDATA[Berkshire Eagle: Alan Chartock]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[I, Publius: Letters I might have gotten]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Dear Doctor:<br>
I look forward to reading your advice -- it has helped me a great deal over the years. If everyone listened to you, the world would be a much better place. My boyfriend always thinks that he's right about everything. Now he says that all politics are fixed and nothing is what it seems. He isn't right, is he?]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 18 May 2013 05:21:51 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: Murray tells Alan about Mother's Day]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[I had a conversation with Murray, the world's cutest and smartest pup who was taught how to read at the Literacy Network of South Berkshire. If you live with dogs, I'm sure you've often wondered what the dog is thinking.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 11 May 2013 10:06:03 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock:What happens when we don't vote?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[If we don't vote or if we do vote but don't know a thing about who we are voting for, we leave most of the decision making in the hands of a relative few. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 6 May 2013 11:43:56 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: 'Teaching is not about quick fixes']]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[You really have to love Carol and Steve Ide. They are phenomenal human beings. They are both wonderful musicians who have played with the likes of Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie as well as in the legendary Berkshire bands Boogity Shoe and Shenandoah.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 1 May 2013 12:11:00 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: Food trucks deliver great eats and price]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Mike Seward wrote a great letter to The Berkshire Eagle this week and beat me to the punch on the matter of food trucks in Great Barrington. As you all probably know, the Great Barrington Board of Selectmen doesn't seem to want food trucks in town. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:09:48 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: Continued list of great places to eat]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Oh, boy! Last week, I listed a whole bunch of places to eat in Great Barrington. I thought I had all -- or at least most -- of them, but no matter where I went, I ran into people who chided me for leaving their favorite off the list.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 13 Apr 2013 03:22:53 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: Berkshires' best places for dining]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[One of the best things about living in Great Barrington is the amazing selection of fabulous restaurants in and around town. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:18:40 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: Dread about impending road work]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Now that the reconstruction of Great Barrington's Main Street is fast-approaching, the level of dread in our community is rising.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:34:42 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: McDermott; 'Bat Woman' of her time]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[As people age, they lose friends who impacted their lives both positively and sometimes negatively. Roselle and I showed up full-time in the Berkshires in 1971, and the fabulous and forward-thinking Jack Spenser hired Roselle to teach at Monument Mountain.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 23 Mar 2013 01:47:25 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: Gov. Patrick in a class all by himself]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Gov. Deval Patrick exemplifies the difference between the professional politician class and the public servant who is policy-oriented and, frankly, just tries to do what is right. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:19:43 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: Mourning literary loss of Donnell]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[I am in mourning because they shut down the Donnell Library Center on East 53rd Street in New York City in order to build yet another huge glass building for the very rich.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:00:37 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: Leave chief choice up to the mayor]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Here we go again. The Pittsfield Firefighters union wants one of the three top scorers on the chief's civil service exam to get the hiring nod from his honor, Mayor Daniel L. Bianchi.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:53:28 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: It's time for some sensible gun controls]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Guns are on a lot of minds these days. Years ago, my friend Glenn Doty, the then-editor of the Legislative Gazette, convinced me to get a shotgun.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:26:23 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Alan Chartock: A farewell to my friend McKearnan]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Saturday February 9, 2013    


GREAT BARRINGTON



David McKearnan died last week after a tough illness.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Alan Chartock, Special to The Eagle</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 9 Feb 2013 00:17:20 EST]]></pubDate>
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