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			<title>Wind energy industry anxious over tax credit</title>
			<description><![CDATA[How big a deal is two cents? Well, it&#039;s a big deal if you&#039;re trying to produce wind energy.]]></description>
			<link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/27/wind_credit/?refid=0</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Demand is high for wood stoves</title>
			<description><![CDATA[High energy costs have prompted many Minnesotans to turn to alternative sources to heat their homes. Some businesses who sell wood and corn stoves say more customers are demanding their products.]]></description>
			<link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/27/wood_stoves/?refid=0</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Xcel promotes nuclear power at State Fair</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Butter sculptures. Malts. Nuclear power. All under one roof at the Minnesota State Fair.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>A List You Don&#039;t Want to Make</title>
			<description><![CDATA[For years, innocent travelers have been subject to extra scrutiny at airports that seems unwarranted, if not silly. In many cases the traveler shares the name of someone on a terror watch list, and that triggers a closer review. But there&#039;s a renewed push to clear the names of the innocent and speed their way through security checks.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>St. Cloud grocer Coborn&#039;s buys Simon Delivers</title>
			<description><![CDATA[St. Cloud-based grocer Coborn&#039;s Inc.
says it has acquired SimonDelivers.com, the online grocer that shut down earlier this summer.]]></description>
			<link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/26/simonsold/?refid=0</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:39:08 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Traffic deaths up in Minnesota</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The slight increase in Minnesota traffic fatalities in 2007 is in contrast to the national roadway death toll which declined.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:30:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Coleman wants offshore drilling to fund alternative energy</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Republican Senator Norm Coleman wants offshore drilling to pay for the development of alternative energy sources.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:40:29 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Land values on the rise even for non-prime farmland</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Land prices for the best farm acreage have been shooting up. But now, even the state&#039;s less-than-prime farmland is selling for record amounts. Many are buying the land not for farming, but for recreation.]]></description>
			<link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/21/landvalues/?refid=0</link>
			<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:10:00 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Mine officials tell the state to hurry up with permits</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Officials with a company that wants to
open a precious metals mine on the Iron Range say the state of
Minnesota needs to get moving.]]></description>
			<link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/23/polymet/?refid=0</link>
			<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:37:16 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>RNC creates friendly competition between Twin Cities</title>
			<description><![CDATA[St. Paul counts down to the Republican National Convention, but why do people continue to think the event is in Minneapolis?  It&#039;s generating some healthy competition between our Twin Cities.]]></description>
			<link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/22/wheresrnc/?refid=0</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:43:56 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Washington Ave. bridge places restrictions on pedestrian traffic</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Starting Saturday, pedestrian traffic will be limited to the center of the upper deck of the Washington Ave. bridge connecting the East and West banks of the University of Minnesota campus.]]></description>
			<link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/22/washington_ave_bridge/?refid=0</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:42:34 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Highway 100 once again open in St. Louis Park</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Part of southbound Highway 100 is once again open after having been shut down in St. Louis Park because a tractor-trailer hit the
Minnetonka Boulevard bridge this morning.]]></description>
			<link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/22/highway_100_bridge/?refid=0</link>
			<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:45:45 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Minnesota State Fair by the numbers</title>
			<description><![CDATA[More than 1.5 million people make their way to the Minnesota State Fair each year, which kicked off Thursday. However, those are not the only significant numbers of the Great Minnesota Get-Together.]]></description>
			<link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/21/state_fair_numbers/?refid=0</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:12:55 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Duluth tries to trim budget hole with civic yard sale</title>
			<description><![CDATA[The City of Duluth, which is facing a large budget crisis, is considering selling part of its cultural and natural heritage to settle the budget gap.]]></description>
			<link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/21/duluthforsale/?refid=0</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:10:10 -0500</pubDate>
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			<title>Bachman&#039;s promotes from within to replace CEO</title>
			<description><![CDATA[Family owned florist and garden center
Bachman&#039;s Inc. has named Dale Bachman as its new CEO after the
previous top executive was killed in Beijing during the Olympics.]]></description>
			<link>http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/08/21/bachmans_promotion/?refid=0</link>
			<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:54:24 -0500</pubDate>
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