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		<title>&#124;&#124; The Florida Frontier: Still Closed</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an update to my earlier post concerning the beginning of the decline in the population of Volusia County, Florida and its ramifications for civic engagement around growth. 
As the enclosed chart indicates, the decline in Volusia population has continued for three straight years after the peak in 2007. As I stated in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; Forum on the Public’s Role in Planning for Growth and Development.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We (the students enrolled in my Civic Education class, myself, and the other contributing editors of thepolity.net) hosted a public deliberative forum at Stetson University on April 20, 2010. I plan to share the results and reflections on that event in some detail. First up is the formal press release we issued at the end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#124;&#124; The Closing of the Florida Frontier?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent feature articles in the New York Times (August 29, 2009) and Orlando Sentinel (August 17, 2009) have highlighted the beginning of the decline of population in Florida. After a century of rapid population growth that provided the mainstay of economic development and dominated state politics, Florida appears to be entering a new era.
It is [...]]]></description>
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