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		<title>Calling an audible, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, my lovely wife bought me what was possibly the greatest birthday gift she could think of, an iPod. I&#8217;m typically not the type to really latch on to a thing anymore, but this device has become a love-worn treasure. It hasn&#8217;t been so much a form of entertainment to me, I have put hours and hours of music on it that I hardly listen to (my playlist really needs to be culled), but it has been a vast source of information for me. Especially on some of these long days where I just want to hear an intelligent adult talking instead of my lovely toddler&#8217;s babbling, I have a long list of podcasts that I&#8217;ve subscribed to for one reason or another, and it is my connection to the world at large. For my news and information&#8230;. Democracy Now! &#8211; Amy Goodman&#8217;s award-winning national news broadcast is also available every morning as a video and audio podcast. I take the audio, since it&#8217;s very rare that I need the visuals to further understand what it is she&#8217;s reporting. If you want a progressive-leaning newscast that isn&#8217;t hampered by bowing to corporate advertisers&#8217; interests, though, this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wedged in</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had just seen this home listed for sale in Hopkins, and my first though was about just how huge it is in comparison to the typical story-and-a-half that one finds in my town. The second thought was just how close it is to its neighbors, and the third was, &#8220;Hasn&#8217;t anyone had enough of this crap?&#8221; Houses like this are, honestly, all over town. I get the &#8220;joy&#8221; of seeing one across the street from my own home, a split-level box taking up virtually the entire property and wedged in between the oldest home on the street and a 1940&#8242;s Cape Cod. There was a big deal made of &#8220;McMansions&#8221; going up in Edina a while back, and my question is: Why hasn&#8217;t anyone in the city of Hopkins made a similar stink? McMansions, by the way, are oversized homes built in older neighborhoods of smaller homes. They&#8217;re typically about twice the size of their neighbors, take up the entire lot, and stick out like a sore thumb. More often than not, the builder has demolished a perfectly livable older house to replace it and they&#8217;ve gotten variances from the city to  ignore such pesky laws as mandatory setbacks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wrong way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons that we bought our house here in Hopkins is the impending construction of the Southwest Light Rail line. Sure, we&#8217;re connected to Minneapolis via mass transit as it is, but knowing that a smooth, electric train line is coming to supplement or replace entirely that big, smelly bus was an attractive asset to the neighborhood. The problem is, like many government-run endeavors, the final route chosen is woefully misguided and shows too much favor to the more affluent and will ultimately not serve the area as well as it could. For one, let&#8217;s take a look at where this could have gone. The cheapest, easiest, path-of-least-resistance route would have gone from Eden Prairie on up into Minneapolis entirely along the SW LRT bike path and Kennilworth trail. The problem with this is that, outside of Hopkins and St. Louis Park, a lot of this route goes nowhere, or at least nowhere that it would be easy to pick up riders. I used to live on the Eden Prairie end of this route, and the long, windy, cul-de-sac-ness of the neighborhoods are a far cry from the density and walkability that works well with light rail. Plus, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dead tree hugger</title>
		<link>http://www.kilanowski.us/matthew/index.php/2010/02/03/225</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s talk about the fourth branch of the government. Wait, I can see you counting on those fingers… Executive, Legislative, Judicial… Isn’t that it? Well, officially, yes. But there is one other “branch” that was put in place as a means to inform the populous through the “freedom of the press” clause in the First Amendment. It was deemed necessary that newspapers operate without the hindrance of the government because it was felt that they were responsible for keeping an impartial (or at least unencumbered) eye on the government. With that in mind, every Sunday I get the Star Tribune on my doorstep, and I consider that to be my most important source of news. A friend of mine once poked a little fun at me for this quaint attachment to the newspaper. After all, this is the digital age. Why have a static sheet of paper dropped on your doorstep with this dynamic content with instant access to breaking news is constantly at your fingertips? The newspaper is as dead as the trees it’s printed on, was the gist of his message, and now is the time to fire up the web browser and have your news aggregator mine [...]]]></description>
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