Thanks for the feedback. I tried this...

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<%

var to = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset");

to.ActiveConnection = MM_s4r_STRING;

to.Source = "SELECT newdate, news FROM dbo.news";

to.CursorType = 0;

to.CursorLocation = 2;

to.LockType = 1;

to.Open();

var to_numRows = 0;

%>

<%= Response.Write "&news=" & Server.URLEncode((to.Fields.Item("news").Value)) %>

<%= Server.URLEncode((to.Fields.Item("newdate").Value)) %>

<%

to.Close();

%>

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Response was 500 error.

Microsoft JScript compilation error '800a03ee'

Expected ')'

/stage1/_inc/news2.asp, line 14

Response.Write(Response.Write "&news=" & Server.URLEncode((to.Fields.Item("news").Value)))------------------------------^

any ideas?

line 14 : <%= Response.Write "&news=" & Server.URLEncode((to.Fields.Item("news").Value)) %>

I did add another ) but again gave a 500