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Coming up on The Roundtable on Tuesday, February 9: We will get the news from Barbara Lombardo of the Saratogian. David Walker served as the seventh comptroller general of the United States and was the CEO of the U.S. Government Accountability Office from 1998 to 2008. He will join us to share his insights on the current state of the economy. We will get some book picks from the folks at Battenkill Books. Alan will be in the Congressional Corner with Chris Murphy, and the great Tina Packer will tell us what is happening at Shakespeare & Co. The Roundtable has a Flickr photostream.

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