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		<title>Birds of a feather flock together, sort of&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/10/birds-of-a-feather-flock-together-sort-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a bird lover, and having an office next to Bob Pettit is a special treat.
Over the weekend, I noticed dozens of turkey vultures &#8211; I call them buzzards &#8211; flying over my house. I&#8217;ve never noticed buzzards flying together &#8211; unless they were circling a carcass somewhere. But it looked for all the world [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big House fun for charity run</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/10/big-house-fun-for-charity-run/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/10/big-house-fun-for-charity-run/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues, events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not the type to be overly impressed by running out through the tunnel onto the football field at the Big House.
After all, I was a member of the Junction City Tigers high school football team, which ran through a gauntlet of cheerleaders and band members onto the field on Friday nights.
Okay, it wasn&#8217;t exactly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A second Nevaeh thought</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/06/a-second-nevaeh-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/06/a-second-nevaeh-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues, events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MonroeTalks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Evening News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some afterthoughts on coverage of the Nevaeh Buchanan story.
There&#8217;s more to evaluating news coverage than timeliness. Accuracy, relevance, usefulness, balance and appropriate presentation all are important, too.
In my new role &#8211; as a college journalism professor, not a newspaper editor &#8211; commenting on the media goes with the territory. Before, my role was to explain and defend. Now it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nevaeh story highlights new media world</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/06/nevaeh-coverage-offers-case-example-of-new-media/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2009/06/nevaeh-coverage-offers-case-example-of-new-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues, events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tragic disappearance of Nevaeh Buchanan brings Monroe and its small-town newspaper face-to-face with two dramatic media trends.
One, the emergence of social media as a force in news coverage, and two, how a &#8220;big story&#8221; engulfs a community like never before.
By now it has been well documented on local talk forums that the Monroe Evening News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a thrill out of voting</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/11/getting-a-thrill-out-of-voting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/11/getting-a-thrill-out-of-voting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues, events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember having as much fun voting.
There were more poeple in the gymnasium at Lambertville United Methodist Church than last weekend for the church craft show.
Each of the three lines for one precinct had several dozen people in them. There was a low buzz filling the room &#8211; kind of like a crowded library. The poll workers talked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IHM property is worth saving for posterity</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/09/ihm-property-is-worth-saving-for-posterity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/09/ihm-property-is-worth-saving-for-posterity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 14:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues, events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m cheering for the folks who are trying to raise money to preserve the land owned by the IHM sisters in Monroe.
Few cities of any size are given an opportunity like this &#8211; a beautiful piece of undeveloped property in the middle of the city.  And this property is more than beautiful &#8211; it&#8217;s also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting global emissions a personal issue here</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/07/cutting-global-emissions-a-personal-issue-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/07/cutting-global-emissions-a-personal-issue-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues, events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the world&#8217;s leaders get together in a place called Rusutsu, Japan, and agree to cut global greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent by 2050, it sounds like something a long way away that could hardly mean anything to folks in Monroe County.
And, it is true, most experts pooh-pooh the move as meaningless rhetoric.
But few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jazz and Monroe</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/04/jazz-and-monroe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/04/jazz-and-monroe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues, events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a few minutes this morning on the Alexander Zonjic radio show  at the River Raisin Centre for the Arts. Mr. Zonjic is the morning host on WVMV-FM Smooth Jazz  V98.7, and today he was broadcasting live from Monroe.
I was one of several Monroeites who were interviewed by the talented jazz flutist/dj. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racism in Monroe &#8211; a personal issue</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/04/racism-in-monroe-cup-half-full-or-empty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/04/racism-in-monroe-cup-half-full-or-empty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues, events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no doubt about it, the Big Read is a cool concept.
Getting thousands of people in one community to read the same book and then discuss it can be a powerful process &#8211; especially when the book is as thought-provoking as &#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird.&#8221;
The novel by Harper Lee explores racism in the fictional town [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving blood and running, oh my&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/04/giving-blood-and-running-oh-my/</link>
		<comments>http://www.blogsmonroe.com/editors/2008/04/giving-blood-and-running-oh-my/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Shaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local issues, events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Running]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Within five minutes into my run today, I knew something wasn&#8217;t quite right.
I felt tired, lethargic. I wanted to stop.
But I perservered. Anyone who runs knows that sometimes there are days like that. The best thing to do is just keep running; often the feeling goes away and what starts out as a dreadful experience [...]]]></description>
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