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                    <description><![CDATA[Monserrate says he'll oppose
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                    <description><![CDATA[Sharon Sayles Belton is the 
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                    <title><![CDATA[Andrew weighs bid for mayor]]></title>
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                    <title><![CDATA[How Minneapolis made news in 2012]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[From murder to a new Vikings home
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                    <title><![CDATA[Don Samuels exploring bid for Minneapolis mayor]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[North Side resident dropped out of race for Hennepin commissioner  ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 28, Dec 2012 17:29</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Reaction to Mayor Rybak's decision not to run again]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Public officials and others are praising the three-term mayor ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Thu, 27, Dec 2012 16:25</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Mpls. Mayor Rybak says he's not running for re-election next year]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[R.T. Rybak announced that he’s calling it quits after 12 years in office, throwing the 2013 mayor’s race open to at least four credible contenders. ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[School board member leads
her colleagues in taking on duties ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 26, Dec 2012 11:17</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[New finance chief seeks balanced school budget]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[District has been dipping into
reserves to pay its expenses ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Fri, 21, Dec 2012 17:42</pubDate>
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                    <description><![CDATA[A lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis, filed by the mother of a radio host who died after two altercations with police, was tossed out of federal court on Thursday. ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[A federal jury in St. Paul awarded Jean Kidd $420,000 in her lawsuit claiming that a former fire chief demoted her from deputy chief after she criticized him in a survey. ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Beneath the streets of Minneapolis, a handful of tiny robots are on a mission to ensure the city’s underground pipes remain intact. ]]></description>
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                    <description><![CDATA[Judges rule that homeowners 
can challenge 2010 assessment ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Dec 2012 18:13</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[City Pages to implement stricter ad policies ]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[City Pages and a dozen other weeklies will implement stricter advertisement policies after split with Backpage.com. ]]></description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 19, Dec 2012 16:45</pubDate>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Rybak backs new gun laws, slams violent media]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[In an e-mail to city residents Wednesday, Mayor R.T. Rybak endorsed new federal gun regulations and criticized violent media in the wake of last Friday's mass shooting in Connecticut.  ]]></description>
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                    <title><![CDATA[Mpls. license plate tracking data under wraps -- for now]]></title>
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                    <description><![CDATA[In a lengthy request sent to the Department of Administration today, city officials made their case for reclassifying sensitive data derived from license plate readers as non-public. The request, made at the request of Mayor R.T. Rybak and the City Council, precedes likely action at the Legislature to reclassify the data statewide. ]]></description>
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