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		<title>Mitzelfelt MEMO: September 3, 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read this month&#8217;s newsletter. HEADLINES: Road Projects Advance in County Areas&#8230; Funding Sought for National Trails Highway Replacement Bridges&#8230; Mitzelfelt Advocates High Desert Corridor to Washington, D.C. Leaders&#8230; Respected Leaders Volunteer for Mitzelfelt Team&#8230; Supervisors Secure Volunteers to Assist Returning Veterans&#8230; Phelan Memorial Library Celebrates First Anniversary&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Brad and Cesar Milan, “The Dog Whisperer”, Discuss Brad’s Pit Bull Control Ordinance; Listen HERE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[… Listen to Brad and Cesar Milan, “The Dog Whisperer”, Discussing Brad’s Pit Bull Control Ordinance Here &#8230; or enter this URL in your web browser&#8217;s navigation window: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N45kPwkDrc0&#38;feature=player_embedded#at=14]]></description>
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		<title>Supervisor named Boy Scouts’ Distinguished Citizen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[JoinBrad Webmaster’s note: This event has already taken place. APPLE VALLEY – The Boy Scouts of America, High Desert District, will honor San Bernardino County Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt as their 2010 Distinguished Citizen of the Year at an annual benefit dinner on Wednesday, June 30. The Distinguished Citizen Award is bestowed upon individuals who have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitzelfelt now president of Transportation Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;New post on transportation authority will speed up local projects&#8217; SAN BERNARDINO &#8211; In his new post as president of the regional transportation authority, 1st District Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt said he’ll push to speed up the construction of local projects through creative funding and streamlining the approval process. On Wednesday Mitzelfelt was unanimously elected president [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitzelfelt Chairs Government Watchdog Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 May 2010 23:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN BERNARDINO • Now leading the agency that oversees local boundaries and services, 1st District Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt said he will push to build more cooperative — and less adversarial — relationships with local agencies. The San Bernardino Local Agency Formation Commission on Wednesday unanimously elected Mitzelfelt as its chairman. He had previously been serving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>County-rescued Victor Valley Museum reopens soon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 23:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[APPLE VALLEY &#8211; With exhibits at the Victor Valley Museum temporarily closed, San Bernardino County employees will spend the next few weeks designing updated displays with plans to reopen in early fall under the theme “Discover your Backyard.” The county in November acquired the museum, just south of Bear Valley Road in the Jess Ranch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karl Rove a Crowd-Pleaser at Mitzelfelt Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 01:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VICTORVILLE – Karl Rove, former Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush, joined San Bernardino County Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt March 31 at a luncheon event in Victorville. Mr. Rove, who received a standing ovation from the almost 300 guests at the conclusion of his remarks, said “I like coming to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KFI&#8217;s John and Ken Interview Brad About Global Warming Law; Listen HERE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>‘Ben Stein optimistic about High Desert’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Stein, a pop culture icon who is an economist, sees opportunity in the High Desert. The region&#8217;s economy has been devastated by the recession but &#8220;the long-term trend is overwhelming &#8230; with the growth of future imports,&#8221; Stein said Thursday at a news conference at the San Bernardino County Fairgrounds in Victorville. &#8220;If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interior Secretary Names Mitzelfelt to BLM Panel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has appointed four new members and re-appointed one member to the Bureau of Land Management&#8217;s (BLM) citizen-based California Desert District Advisory Council (DAC) which advises the BLM on public land issues. The council&#8217;s new members are: Alexander Schriener Jr. of Bermuda Dunes who will represent renewable resource interests; Thomas Hallenbeck of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Read Brad’s ‘FLASH REPORT’ Articles Archive HERE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<title>Brad on ABC News talks about his law that keeps sex offenders from driving ice cream trucks; Listen HERE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<title>Jerry Brown’s Chickens Little Come Home to Roost&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, a real example of what life will be like – at least for California businesses and employers in the era of AB 32, SB 375 and Attorney General Jerry Brown’s policy of suing local governments who fail to adequately factor “global warming” into their land-use decisions – manifested in the Mojave Desert [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last One Out Will Feed the Bears&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt, San Bernardino County Note: This article is also posted on the FlashReport.org website here.  This and all of Brad’s FlashReport.org posts can be found here. Today at 11 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, the U.S. Senate will commence deliberations on a bill to fund the federal government for the rest of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Regarding Former Assessor Bill Postmus&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This article is also posted on the FlashReport.org website here: This and all of Brad’s FlashReport.org posts can be found here.  The following URL leads to my latest official statement on this topic, at the end of which are links to all of my previous official statements on this topic: http://www.sbcounty.gov/Mitzelfelt/newsroom/ViewPressRelease.aspx?DocID=380. By Supervisor Brad [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Grand Canyon Between Us&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This article is also posted on the FlashReport.org website here.  This and all of Brad’s FlashReport.org posts can be found here. By Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt, San Bernardino County First went my sister and her family. Then followed my mother. Then my grandmother.  Even one of the cities I represent is looking at possibly going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Survival, Despite Government&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This article is also posted on the FlashReport.org website here.  This and all of Brad’s FlashReport.org posts can be found here. By Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt, San Bernardino County This past Thursday I had the opportunity to welcome High Desert business owners to a &#8220;Business Survival&#8221; workshop. I didn&#8217;t say, &#8220;I&#8217;m from the government and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brad&#8217;s New Year&#8217;s Message from &#8216;The Sun&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Bernardino County Sun, January 1, 2009, ‘Point of View: New year a time for real leadership’, By Brad Mitzelfelt&#8230; Link to online article: http://www.sbsun.com/pointofview/ci_11346229 As 2008 &#8211; and my first two years as San Bernardino County&#8217;s 1st District Supervisor &#8211; come to a close, we have accomplished much. But I&#8217;m mindful that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why County Should Fight Housing Meltdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt As San Bernardino County’s economy becomes increasingly mired in the residential real estate foreclosure crisis, I am pushing for the County to take a leadership role in addressing the problem head-on with the goal of speeding our economic recovery. There are those who question the political wisdom or ideological purity (I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulus is Non-Renewable</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President-Elect Barack Obama announced Saturday that he plans to revive the economy and create jobs by upgrading roads, schools and energy efficiency in the greatest public-works initiative since the interstate highway system in the 1950s. &#8230; &#8230;From the FlashReport.org Blog … By Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt, December 7, 2008.  View it here, or to view it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Mitzelfelt takes oath of office’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Video and a transcript of Supervisor Mitzelfelt&#8217;s Oath of Office speech are available online. For the video, click or go to http://www.sbcounty.gov/Mitzelfelt/multimedia/ViewVideo.aspx?vid=358:  &#8230; For the transcript, click or go to: http://www.sbcounty.gov/mitzelfelt/newsroom/ViewPressRelease.aspx?DocID=364. (From the Daily Press) SAN BERNARDINO &#8211; Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt began his first full term serving the 1st District following oath-of-office ceremonies Monday. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ShakeOut Prepares 1/2-Million County Residents for &#8216;The Big One&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Mitzelfelt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Co-Chairman of San Bernardino County’s portion of the Great Southern California Shakeout, I’m proud that our residents helped make the largest earthquake drill in U.S. history an unqualified success. More than 5 million Southern Californians took part in a “Drop, Cover and Hold On” drill at 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13.  At the San [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Governments Fumble, Roads Crumble</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 2, 2008, from FlashReport.org- ABSTRACT: In today&#8217;s main FlashReport Commentary, Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt reflects on how the Democrat majority&#8217;s refusal to even allow Congressional debate on the nations energy policies combine with decreased gas tax revenues, inflationary costs and budgetary raids on highway funds to paint a bleak picture of our infrastructure outlook. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Protect our desert, ensure our future in it&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special to The San Bernardino County Sun, &#8216;Point of View&#8217; section, July 27, 2008&#8230; By Brad Mitzelfelt&#8230;Online Link&#8230; The push to balance today&#8217;s economic progress with preserving our natural resources and our desert way of life has lurched forward dramatically, if not very gracefully, this year. We are seeing several regionally significant enterprises looking to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re-Election Message: &#8216;Thank You!&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the help of so many friends and supporters, the Brad Mitzelfelt campaign on June 3rd won election for four more years representing the First District of San Bernardino County. Garnering more than 62.5% of the vote, we comfortably exceeded the required plurality of votes &#8212; despite the fact that we faced three opponents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Operation Desert Heat &#8216;Surges&#8217; Against Gangs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt and Sheriff Gary Penrod, Special to the Press Dispatch&#8230; Gangs are the worst crime threat facing the Victor Valley and San Bernardino County. These networks of criminals carry out thousands of violent crimes in our county, terrorizing residents and burdening our law and justice system. Criminal gang activity poses an ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New graffiti removal program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 22:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graffiti in the unincorporated areas of the High Desert is expected to be much less visible this week now that a contractor has been hired to remove the unsightly tagging left by gang members and vandals. &#8220;This type of pernicious vandalism affects the quality of life, the property values, and even the safety of residents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitzelfelt Interviewed By ABC World News About Sex Offender Ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 01:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors&#8217; approval this week of Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt&#8217;s proposed ordinance to ban sex offenders from working on ice cream trucks has attracted national media attention, including that of ABC World News. Today, Supervisor Mitzelfelt appeared on ABC World News with Jim Avila, and a webcast of the interview can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I-15/215 Bottleneck &#8211; &#8216;Relief&#8217; is on the Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From the Daily Press)â€¦ State officials announced Thursday that San Bernardino County is getting $239 million for transportation projects including the widening and reconstruction of an interchange that is a constant headache for Victor Valley commuters. The county&#8217;s top priority will be the widening of Interstate 15 and reconstructing the interchange at I-15 and I-215 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Grades in for Mitzelfelt&#8217;s first year&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Supervisor for 1st District has kept his promises, but work still needs to be done HESPERIA -“ When seeking his appointment, San Bernardino County 1st District Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt said he could do in two years what others could do in four. Having now been in office for one year, Mitzelfelt says he is on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitzelfelt&#8217;s Sex-Offender Tracking Team Approved</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 18:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you may be aware, the State of California has begun enforcing sex-offender residency restrictions of Jessica&#8217;s Law &#8211; the ballot initiative that was overwhelmingly passed by California Voters last November giving California the toughest anti-child-predator laws in the nation. I worked hard to help get this new law passed because of its stiff sentencing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitzelfelt Grants Millions For After-School Alternatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the evening of August 21st I announced my multi-million dollar effort to support Victor Valley youth and after school programs during a pre-game ceremony at Mavericks Stadium in Adelanto. During the event &#8212; which included high desert youth and Major League Baseball representatives including former Dodgers catcher Steve Yeager &#8212; I presented checks totaling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitzelfelt Teams With Hesperia to Build New Fire Station</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The County of San Bernardino will contribute $3.5 million toward the City of Hesperia&#8217;s construction of a new fire station in southwest Hesperia. The formal agreement was unanimously approved August 15 by the Hesperia City Council, and will soon be finalized by my colleagues and me on the County Board of Supervisors. The &#8220;joint-use&#8221; station [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supervisors Approve Mitzelfelt&#8217;s Nurse-Training Initiatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In two consecutive weeks, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors recently approved my proposals to significantly expand registered-nurse training in the High Desert.Â  On June 12, the Board unanimously approved my plan to allocate $150,000 to help expand the Victor Valley College Nursing Program.Â  Those funds will add another 40 nursing students there. Then, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitzelfelt Provides $500,000 in Support for Aviation Job Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 07:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Board of Supervisors on June 5th approved my purchase of necessary equipment and tools to help ensure that a proposed new aviation technicians training school in Victorville is certified and open for business this fall. On March 20 I brought forward a proposal to allocate $500,000 to Southern California Logistics Airport for the planned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitzelfelt&#8217;s Private Property Protection Rules Approved</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 06:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on June 5th approved my policy to limit acquisitions of tax-defaulted private property by conservation groups and the federal government. I developed the policy with the intent of returning some such properties to viable residential and other economic uses, and to maintain the properties on the tax rolls [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hesperia to Keep More of Its Tax Dollars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 May 2007 01:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Hesperia City Council voted recently to take advantage of a program offered by the County of San Bernardino that will increase property tax dollars returned to the city. The Revenue Enhancement Zone program, which I helped develop last year, was designed to help some San Bernardino County cities deal with the growth they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Satellite Tracking of Gang Members Moves Forward</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Â Â Â  On April 17 the Board of Supervisors unanimously approved my plan to track gang members by GPS satellite device after their release into San Bernardino County from prison or jail. The plan includes a local pilot program that was already initiated earlier this month when Probation officers began using GPS devices to monitor known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mitzelfelt Renews Landfill Access for BLM Cleanups</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 23, I re-issued passes to the federal Bureau of Land Management that will allow the agency full and free use of county landfills.Â  My decision to reinstate the BLMâ€™s dump cards is intended to assist with ongoing desert cleanup efforts and to help promote improved interagency cooperation.Â  The passes were revoked by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Desert is Not a Dumping Ground</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 13, my colleagues on the Board of Supervisors joined me in adopting a number of measures aimed at attacking the problem of illegal dumping in San Bernardino County. Our new county ordinance creates fines and penalties for dumpers. County Code Enforcement Officers will be authorized to issue citations with penalties ranging from infractions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gang Injunctions Key to Crime Fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fellow Board members and I on February 6 approved the creation of a Gang Injunction unit within the District Attorney&#8217;s office. The unit will complement existing staffing currently engaged in the County&#8217;s War on Gangs.When I was seeking the appointment to the First District Supervisor seat, having already discussed the need with District Attorney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Desert Parks Get Big Bucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:32:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 30, I was pleased to have been able to secure more than $1.2 million in funding for park improvements in the High Desert. The funding is part of a total allocation of more than $3.5 million the County received from a Proposition 40 grant to the County. Proposition 40 is the Clean Water, [...]]]></description>
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