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         <title>Comment of the Week</title>
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           ​Larry Johnson reports back to work on Monday. His suspension will be over, and the news about his homophobic slurs and criticism of his coach will be forgotten and everyone will kiss and ...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">football</category>
        
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:00:24 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>This week&apos;s Pitch and 9 things we learned this week</title>
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         ​Stop being so touchy-feely with first responders. In Peter Rugg's feature, "Stop Hugging Us," Kansas City psychiatrists with experience from one of Kansas City's worst disasters -- the Hyat...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:55 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Anti-nuke activists turn PIEA board meeting into impromptu talent show</title>
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           ​Anti-nuke activists turned out to protest this morning's meeting of the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority, whose board voted unanimously to approve a development agreement to build a...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Picket Lines</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Politics</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Centerpoint-Zimmer</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">GSA</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Jane Stoever</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Kansas City</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">minority hiring</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">NNSA</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">PeaceWorks</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">The Recipe</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:10:12 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Go See This: Tom Stoppard&apos;s Arcadia at UMKC</title>
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         UMKC's production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia closes this Sunday, before our next issue goes to press. Because it's a fine production of a play touched with greatness, we're running a review h...]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/11/go_see_this_tom_stoppardsa_arcadia_at_umkc.php</link>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Entertainment</category>
        
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Anna Safar</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Arcadia</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Dina Kirschenbaum</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Tom Stoppard</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Tyler Horn</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">UMKC Theater</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Zachary M. Andrews</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:00:48 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Friday Book Review: Patrick Dobson&apos;s Seldom Seen</title>
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         In his chronicle of walking from Kansas City to Helena, Montana, Patrick Dobson proves that in literature, as in life, there's a fine line between cozy and boring. 

​The premise of Seldom S...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Lit</category>
        
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Great Plains</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Patrick Dobson</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Seldom Seen</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">University of Nebraska Press</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:30:46 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Breaking! Kansans celebrate evolution!</title>
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          ​We're getting reports of planned alcohol and snack consumption this weekend in honor of two anniversaries: the 150th of&nbsp; Charles Darwin's On the Origin of the Species and the 10th for...]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/11/breaking_kansans_celebrate_evolution.php</link>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Do It</category>
        
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Charles Darwin</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">evolution</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Josh Rosenau</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Kansas</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Kansas Citizens for Science</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:23 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Local solider shot, injured during Fort Hood shooting spree</title>
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          ​Yesterday's massacre at Fort Hood was a nightmare scenario. A fellow soldier allegedly turns on his own, killing 13 and wounding 31. One of the injured was Keara Bono of Olathe. The 21-yea...]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/11/keara_bono_injured_in_fort_hoo.php</link>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Fort Hood</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Keara Bono</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">shooting</category>
        
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:21:40 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Hotel consultant advised committee chair&apos;s campaign</title>
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          ​A city committee exploring the development of a 1,000-room convention hotel decided that it needed to hire a communications professional. The choice? The committee chair's campaign manager...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Martin</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Politics</category>
        
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Cindy Circo</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">convention hotel</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Kim Carlos</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:00:48 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Three charged with kidnapping Carol Thomas</title>
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          ​ ​Three people have been charged with kidnapping Carol Thomas. 


Excelsior Springs police say 23-year-old James P. Reardon, 21-year-old
Jennifer L. Saling and 29-year-old Erik R. Zimmerma...]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/11/three_charged_with_kidnapping_carol_thomas.php</link>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Killa City</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Carol Thomas</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Erik R. Zimmerman</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Excelsior Springs police</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">homicide</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">James P. Reardon</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Jennifer L. Saling</category>
        
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:04:21 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Lower bond denied for alleged OP hit-and-run driver</title>
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          ​A Johnson County judge denied bond yesterday for Jill Conaghan, the 19-year-old woman charged with involuntary manslaughter and driving under the influence in connection with the hit-and-r...]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/11/bond_denied_for_alleged_op_hit.php</link>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Follow That Story</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">hit-and-run</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Jill Conaghan</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Johnson County</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Overland Park</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Sandra Carocari</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:20:38 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Clips from Willie Aames&apos; Broke &amp; Famous  now online</title>
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         If you missed Willie Aames' turn on VH1's Broke &amp; Famous last night, clips are now online, including footage of Aames' Johnson County garage sale (see it below and read about it here and...]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/11/clips_from_willie_aames_broke.php</link>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:45:13 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Ex-employees charged with poisoning salsa at Mi Ranchito</title>
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          ​Two allegedly vengeful former employees are accused of poisoning the salsa at Mi Ranchito in Lenexa. Husband-and-wife duo Arnoldo Bazan, 30, and Yini De La Torre, 19, are accused of mixing...]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/11/husband_and_wife_charged_with_poisoning_salsa_at_mi_ranchito.php</link>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:06:56 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>KCPD officer involved in shooting</title>
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         A 20-year-old man is in critical condition after he was shot by a Kansas City police officer, KSHB Channel 41 reports.Police told KSHB that a man wanted for a couple felony warrants agreed t...]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/11/kansas_city_police_officer_involved_in_shooting.php</link>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:06:29 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>Weekend Distractions</title>
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         ​1. Would you believe it's already First Friday again? The second-to-last of the whole year, even. Go to the Crossroads! And see, among other wonders, artist H. Stewart "Legally Naked" at th...]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/11/weekend_distractions_7.php</link>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Slap-n-Tickle</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">The Only Good Indian</category>
        
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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         <title>How a plane crash helped prove people should be left alone</title>
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          ​This week's feature story, "Stop Hugging Us," looks at how research from the nearly 30-year-old Hyatt collapse is affecting treatment of post-traumatic stress treatment today. Turns out, i...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Reporter&apos;s Notebook</category>
        
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Richard Gist</category>
        
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         <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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