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	<title>Kevin Winge</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 25, Nov 2009 8:14</pubDate>
				
																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																																								
				 	
				 	 			
									
						



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			  <title><![CDATA[Unallotments: What Would Jesus Think?]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Cutting a special program that addresses the dietary needs of people who are sick in Minnesota is not only bad public policy, it’s unchristian. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[D.C. Council and Catholic Charities Argue Gay Marriage]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Catholic Charities is framing the same-sex marriage debate in Washington, D.C. as a religious freedom issue when really it comes down to the rule of law. And money. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Having “The Talk” with an Elderly Parent]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Discussing the move to a nursing home turns out to be a teaching moment – for the adult children of elderly parents. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Depending on the Kindness of Strangers]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The remaining weeks of the year are a critical time for Minnesota nonprofits as they struggle to balance their budgets. A new online giving program, GiveMN.org, will help turn kindly strangers into generous donors. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Flying the Unfriendly Skies]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[People criticize the airline industry constantly, but air travel would be easier if some folks just stayed home. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 19, Oct 2009 22:5:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Drumbeat for Gay Rights Grows Louder]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Same-sex marriage possible in Maine and D.C., Obama reiterates his intent to end “don’t ask, don’t tell,” Matthew Shepard Act set to pass Congress, and thousands take to streets as part of National Equality March. Full equality for gays and lesbians is just a matter of time. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Gender Equality: The Moral Challenge of Our Time]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[A new book, “Half the Sky” reminds us of our responsibility to address issues that oppress half of the world’s population. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 5, Oct 2009 20:20:25 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Slow Down – We Live Here]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Tired of drivers speeding, running lights and passing other cars on our neighborhood streets.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 2, Oct 2009 6:59:9 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Taxing Soda is a Dual Victory]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Whether you call those sugary refreshments pop or soda, it’s time to tax soft drinks and use the proceeds to pay for health care reform, the prevention of obesity, or childhood nutrition programs. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 24, Sep 2009 6:23:6 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Restorative Justice Improves Livability in Minneapolis]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Restorative Justice Community Action helps to relieve a court system overwhelmed with serious cases, while bringing offenders face-to-face with communities impacted by their crimes. Results of this conflict resolution model are impressive. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sat, 19, Sep 2009 12:28:10 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Filmed Entirely in Minneapolis]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[While movies like “Transformers” and “Harry Potter” may have raked in much of the box office revenue this year, it’s a local film, “Into Temptation,” that has the Twin Cities talking and the film being held over week after week. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sat, 12, Sep 2009 12:46:47 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Obama’s Speech to Children Should Inspire Fitness]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[President Obama can reduce future health care costs by encouraging physical activity for young people and reducing rates of obesity in children. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 7, Sep 2009 11:20:17 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Living in an Optimistic World]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Every one of us has the ability to make a positive impact in the world and every attempt to do so, no matter how small it may seem, should be applauded, not diminished. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Forgiving a Massacre]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[It may take decades – and an apology – but perhaps “unforgivable” acts can sometimes be forgiven. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 24, Aug 2009 18:26:36 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Brett Favre Mania is Not Breaking News]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Brett Favre joining the Vikings is a news story and an even bigger sports story, but not one worthy of interrupting television programming for. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 19, Aug 2009 16:34:17 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Sometimes, You Have to Go Home Again]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Making the journey with aging parents. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 10, Aug 2009 19:31:30 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Reclaiming Patriotism]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[How a recent immigrant to the United States changed my view of patriotism. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 5, Aug 2009 15:23:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Zen Rain Barrel]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[A rain barrel in the backyard does more than conserve water – it makes summer last a little longer. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 28, Jul 2009 7:33:42 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[R.T. Rybak – The Face of the City of Lakes]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Fitness Magazine may have named R.T. Rybak the “Fittest Mayor in America” and City Pages declared him the “best damn mayor around,” but the Minneapolis mayor is deserving of another accolade – that of the most visible mayor. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sun, 19, Jul 2009 14:17:22 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Linda Kelsey Returns to the Guthrie Stage]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[From the stages at the University  of Minnesota, the Guthrie and Chanhassen, to great success in television; actress Linda Kelsey returns to the Guthrie Theater for the first time in decades in a production of J.B. Priestley’s When We Are Married. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Summer in the City]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[You can have the stop-and-go traffic and the mosquitoes of a northern Minnesota get-away cabin. For me, there is no better place to spend a weekend in the summer than in the Twin Cities. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sun, 5, Jul 2009 17:55:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Support White House Conference on Food and Nutrition]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[This year marks the 40th anniversary of the first White House Conference on Food and Nutrition. With the increasing demand on food shelves, with the rates of obesity skyrocketing and with the nation engaged in a renewed debate over health care reform, now is the time to convene a new conference on food and nutrition in the nation’s capital. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Victory for Gay Rights in Sight]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[It may be premature to declare victory in the struggle for equal rights for gays and lesbians in the United States, but 40 years after the Stonewall riots in New York, cultural and political shifts in the United States will result in full equality – very soon. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[An Early Warning System for H1N1]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Just as Minnesotans look to the Emergency Alert System to notify us of potential tornadoes in the summer, we should use the current cases of H1N1 flu as advanced notice of a potential greater health risk this fall and winter. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Support the Kushner Celebration at the Guthrie]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Go ahead, complain about Tony Kushner’s “Intelligent Homosexual” and national critics being excluded from reviewing the play, but see all three of Kushner’s productions currently running and support the Guthrie Theater’s visionary celebration of this important playwright and his work. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[In Defense of the Hug]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[My response to some schools in the U.S. that are banning hugs: hug more, not less! ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[This Summer, I’m Wearing “Dumpy” Shorts]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Just in time for summer, designer shorts for men are selling for as much as $1,495. President Obama says that “excess is out of fashion.” Perhaps it should be that fashion, itself, is out of fashion. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sun, 24, May 2009 16:53:51 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Conserving Water in the Land of 10,000 Lakes]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[I waste more potable water in a day than millions of people have access to. This summer, I’m going to do a better job of conserving water – even here – in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sun, 17, May 2009 11:14:59 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Road Rage and Bicyclists]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Is it any wonder there is no peace in the Middle East when bicyclists and vehicle drivers struggle to coexist in the Twin Cities? ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Medical Marijuana in Minnesota]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The Minnesota Senate has approved legislation that would allow for the medical use of marijuana for patients confronting serious illness. The Minnesota House of Representatives should follow suit, and Governor Pawlenty should allow the legislation to become law. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[U.S. Congress Considers Hate Crimes Legislation]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[We know Americans support law and order. So let’s give law enforcement another tool, the passage of hate crimes legislation, to help in their prosecution of bias-motivated, violent crimes. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[New HIV/AIDS Cases Increase in Minnesota]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Twenty-eight years into the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Minnesota still experienced an increase in new cases of HIV in 2008. There are a number of reasons for this increase, but one underlying contributing factor – self-esteem – is often overlooked. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 20, Apr 2009 6:31:3 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Signs of Spring and a Social Movement]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[This spring brings new growth for the gay rights movement. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 13, Apr 2009 20:54:41 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Opulence and Poverty]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The most opulent hotel on the African continent, One & Only Cape Town, recently opened in South Africa. Just a few miles from there more than a million people live in poverty and confront issues like hunger, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Madonna Accused of Child Trafficking]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Love her or hate her, the world would not be talking about child trafficking if Madonna were not trying to adopt a four-year-old girl in Malawi. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Thu, 2, Apr 2009 9:20:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Transgendered in Zimbabwe]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people suffer more than just a bad economy in President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe.  ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 27, Mar 2009 1:11:16 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[World TB Day]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[South Africans take to the streets on World TB Day. What is happening in the rest of the world to commemorate the devastating impact of tuberculosis? ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 24, Mar 2009 3:30:50 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Celebrating Human Rights Day with a Cold]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Being sick in South Africa on Human Rights Day gives me pause to consider the most basic of human rights – access to food, water and medical care. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sat, 21, Mar 2009 0:28:2 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Reconciliation and Sara Jane Olson]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The state has decided that Sara Jane Olson has paid her debt to society, but it seems many people are not satisfied with that. Perhaps a system like South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission could help our community move forward. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 18, Mar 2009 7:34:10 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Coming Out...As an American]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Being open and honest about who we are as Americans, especially in parts of the world with strong anti-American sentiment, can be difficult. But the only way the rest of the world is going to start to view the United States in its totality is if all of us who travel internationally come out as proud Americans. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Tue, 17, Mar 2009 16:33:26 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[A Temporary Change in World View]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[International travel is always an opportunity to learn more about other cultures – and to learn much more about our own culture. Following a brief layover in Amsterdam I’ll be viewing the world through an African lens for the next few weeks. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 13, Mar 2009 9:24:16 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Not All Earmarks are for Bridges to Nowhere]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Granted, there are earmarks in federal spending bills for projects like “bridges to nowhere” that trigger the ire of most taxpayers. Yet many earmarks support local projects that enhance the communities in which we live. We should be very careful before calling for an end to all earmarks because we just might end up throwing the baby out with the bathwater. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Caucus? What Caucus?]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[The odd year precinct caucuses were convened on Tuesday, March 3 – the first step in the process to elect officials to lead the City of Minneapolis. This caucus could not have been more different than last year’s presidential election year caucus, but both caucuses have me wondering – is this the best way to engage citizens in the political process? ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[It’s Time, Again, to Abolish Capital Punishment]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Whether to save tax-payer money, or simply because the taking of another life, whether it’s state-sanctioned or not, is wrong – it’s time to abolish the death penalty in the U.S. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Fri, 27, Feb 2009 8:24:1 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Lessons from History]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Many people are reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book, Team of Rivals, for insights into President Obama’s cabinet selections. But it’s a quote from William Seward, the man who would become Lincoln’s Secretary of State, which resonates with me. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Coleman vs. Franken: Where’s Solomon When You Need Him?]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[It’s time to bring the curtain down on the Coleman/Franken race – a piece of political theater that has been running for too long. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 18, Feb 2009 22:35:19 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[We’re “Shovel-Ready”, but No Stimulus for Us]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Non-profit organizations addressing unmet social needs should not be overlooked in this economic stimulus package. Non-profits with “shovel-ready” projects will stimulate the economy and provide a return on investment to the community for years to come. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Breakfast with Senator Klobuchar...Well, Almost]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Every Thursday morning in Washington, D.C. Senator Amy Klobuchar opens her office to constituents for coffee, conversation, and potica – a traditional Slovenian pastry. The Senator wasn’t at last week’s breakfast, but her absence didn’t lessen the energy at a Minnesota Morning in the nation’s capitol. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Waiting for Change in Washington, D.C.]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Advocating for change on Capitol Hill can be a slow, but rewarding process. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 4, Feb 2009 16:56:58 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Super Bowl is a Super Opportunity to Give Back]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[What would happen if 167 million Super Bowl fans contributed 1% of the money they spent on food and drink, and one hour of the time they spent viewing the big game, to non-profits addressing hunger and nutrition issues? It's an opportunity for everyone to be a Super Bowl champion. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Stop the Hocus Pocus and Balance the Budget]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[It’s time for the State Legislature and the Governor to put everything on the table – revenue increases and spending decreases – to address the budget deficit. More importantly, it’s time for them all to lead. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 28, Jan 2009 6:52:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Confessions of a Presidential Election Voter]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[From voting for John Anderson in 1980, to Al Gore in 2000, and Barack Obama in 2008 – win or lose – Inauguration Day always finds me optimistic. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Mon, 19, Jan 2009 14:45:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <description><![CDATA[While Americans debate California’s approval of Proposition 8 and Barack Obama’s invitation to Rick Warren to offer the inaugural prayer, nine gay men in Senegal are convicted of “unnatural acts” and sentenced to eight years in prison. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Hopes for Obama’s Administration]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[President Obama: Focus on the economy and the wars, but use your bully pulpit and the stroke of your pen to address other issues. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Sun, 11, Jan 2009 14:46:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Selling Vikings Tickets and the Arts]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Can the same press blitzkrieg that helped sell out the Vikings game assist area arts groups? ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Canada: Yes You Can, Too]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Michael Ignatieff, as Prime Minister of Canada, might just be the change that our neighbor to the north could use. ]]></description>
			  <pubDate>Wed, 31, Dec 2008 8:44:0 CST</pubDate>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Ralph Lauren and Hungry Ethiopians]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Got $325 burning a hole in your pocket this holiday season? You could buy some very select merchandise from designer Ralph Lauren, or pay the salary of an Ethiopian for a year. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Moving Out of Darkness and Into Light]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[Looking for rays of sunshine in the darkest days of the year. ]]></description>
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			  <title><![CDATA[Here's An Idea to Reduce the State's Deficit]]></title>
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			  <description><![CDATA[A simple idea to increase state revenue without raising taxes. Gay marriage has been a boon to the Massachusetts economy. Why can't it work here? ]]></description>
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