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Volume 23 Number 24 April 4,2009
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Front and center:
Come out, shop local
Hoedown in the big town ^
Mean Machine
Articles:
Citizens lobby elected leaders
Time to vote for the best
TWC hosts second chance prom
Features:
The Unlidely Disciple
Columns:
Anything But Straight
Community Cards
Editor’s Note
General Gayety
News Notes: Domestic
I News Notes: Global
jy News Notes: NC
jy Out and About
Out in the Stars
Q-Poll
06 T-Notes
04 TalkBack
07 Tell Trinity
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Editorial Contributors:
'Wayne Besen, Robbi Cohn, Matt Comer,
Andy Harley, Charlene Lichtenstein, Lainey
Millen, Bradley Portnoy, Leslie Robinson,
David Stout, Trinity, William Yeoman
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