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	<title>Whistleblower</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Pieces of aircraft that plummet to earth, Chapter 2</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/08/21/pieces-of-aircraft-that-plummet-to-earth-chapter-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Neighborhood nuisances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I came back from vacation this week and in my mailbox, to my delight, was a thick envelope from the Federal Aviation Administration. On July 18, I had filed a Freedom of Information Act request through the FAA web site for records of objects that fall from the sky from aircraft. I was curious about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illegal trapper snared by the state</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/08/19/illegal-trapper-snared-by-the-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Businesses in hot water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The photo above, taken in 2006, shows the unusual contraband: the fur-clad bodies of 126 beaver, 12 muskrat, a mink, and an otter. Officers with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources seized the animals as part of its investigation into Timothy L. Kresel, a trapper who lived in Brooklyn Park. Kresel&#8217;s methods of capturing fur-bearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My electric meter is a liar, retired detective says</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/08/07/my-electric-meter-is-a-liar-retired-detective-says/</link>
		<comments>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/08/07/my-electric-meter-is-a-liar-retired-detective-says/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Complaint sagas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reading my colleague H.J. Cummins&#8217; report on Xcel Energy&#8217;s effort to recover their money from hundreds of malfunctioning gas meters, it seems timely to tell the tale of a man and his electric meter, which he says had the opposite problem: it claimed he was using all kinds of juice at his condo over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toxic menace removed, public stuck with the bill?</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/08/06/toxic-menace-removed-public-stuck-with-the-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/08/06/toxic-menace-removed-public-stuck-with-the-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Government spends your money]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Neighborhood nuisances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In March, city inspectors stopped at an old metal finishing shop on the North Side of Minneapolis to have a look around. Heavy snows pressed down on a partially collapsed roof. Inside the building was a witch&#8217;s brew of chemicals in 180 containers, the caustic products and residues of 30 years of metal plating and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Check up on your local hospital with detailed online records of investigations</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/08/04/check-up-on-your-local-hospital-with-online-complaint-records/</link>
		<comments>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/08/04/check-up-on-your-local-hospital-with-online-complaint-records/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[How to blow the whistle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Public records]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Should you have a problem with your local hospital, nursing home, hospice, home health agency, boarding care home or supervised living facility, a state agency called the Office of Health Facility Complaints stands ready to take your call. And it helpfully posts records of complaints and investigations online.
To get a flavor of the kind of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closed meetings, secret records: the latest rulings in Minnesota</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/08/01/closed-meetings-secret-records-the-latest-rulings-in-minnesota/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Public records]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My heart starts racing when the latest issue of FYi arrives in my inbox. FYi is the quarterly newsletter of the Minnesota Department of Administration&#8217;s Information Policy Analysis Division. Despite its almost comically bureaucratic name, this agency&#8217;s work has a very real influence on how much we can find out about the activities of government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Free&#8221; airline tickets came with $1200 surcharge, till she complained</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/07/30/free-airline-tickets-came-with-1200-surcharge-till-she-complained/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Complaint sagas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In April, Kathryn Hansen was ordering some new checks from Wells Fargo when the agent on the phone made her an offer. Open a home equity line of credit and you&#8217;ll get two free plane tickets to London. That&#8217;s easily $1,000 per person, she determined, well worth paying the $275 closing costs for a HELOC, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin woman doesn&#8217;t fall for $500K &#8220;Powerball&#8221; win</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/07/29/wisconsin-woman-doesnt-fall-for-500k-powerball-win/</link>
		<comments>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/07/29/wisconsin-woman-doesnt-fall-for-500k-powerball-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:31:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Scams]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My colleague, online reporter Tim Harlow, wrote this dispatch about a deal that sounds just a little too good to be true:
Terri Hagen of Frederic, Wis. was a tad suspicious when earlier this month when she received a letter from an organization calling itself Powerball America 2008 stating that she’d won $498,750 in a lottery. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lasting shame of Minneapolis</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/07/25/a-lasting-shame-of-minneapolis/</link>
		<comments>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/07/25/a-lasting-shame-of-minneapolis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On the eighth of July, Marda Liggett Woodbury, a retired library director, died in California. She was 83. News of her death didn&#8217;t reach our newsroom until some time later, and I only heard about it this week.
I didn&#8217;t know Ms. Woodbury. I spoke to her only once, last year, when I called her after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A year later, redevelopment site houses only grass</title>
		<link>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/07/24/a-year-later-redevelopment-site-houses-only-grass/</link>
		<comments>http://ww3.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2008/07/24/a-year-later-redevelopment-site-houses-only-grass/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Government spends your money]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Property problems]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, I watched as two excavators knocked down a 116-year-old house in north Minneapolis in the name of urban redevelopment. I had written an eight-stanza blog series that culminated with the demolition of 2717 Penn Avenue North. Acquired by speculators, struck by arson, caught up in a foreclosure and condemned by the city, [...]]]></description>
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