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	<title>MAP 150</title>
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	<description>Citizens League's Minnesota Anniversary Project</description>
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		<title>Citizens Will Get Involved&#8211;If We Offer the Right Opportunities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MAP 150 has truly required a leap of faith.  I repeatedly find skepticism everywhere&#8211;(subject of my next post).  But if you haven&#8217;t checked out Students Speak Out or Property Tax Facts lately, you should.  You&#8217;ll see firsthand the power of involving citizens.
We have many new members on Students Speak Out, as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humbled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Annie Wood is one of the student contributors to MAP 150&#8217;s Students Speak Out.  Annie is part of a filmmaking group, TVbyGIRLS.  Recently, she teamed with an older adult and filmed their experience.  I asked Annie what she learned.  And for those who think students don&#8217;t have much to say, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://map150.org/archives/122</link>
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		<title>Systems vs. Outcomes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My faith in &#8220;citizens&#8221;&#8211; regular people&#8211; keeps growing.  Sean and I made a presentation about MAP 150 to the Minnesota Public Health Association, where one woman very insightfully commented: &#8220;Experts think about systems, people think about outcomes.  Experts talk about the health care system, people talk abouyt health.  Experts talk about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Again</title>
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		<title>They Said We&#8217;re Stupid Again!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In yesterday&#8217;s New York Times, Gary Bass, associate professor at Princeton, reviews a book by economist Bryan Caplan. Caplan argues that voters are &#8220;biased, irrational, manipulable and plain ignorant.&#8221; Bass writes:
&#8220;Of all the people who deserve blame for the debacle in Iraq, don&#8217;t forget the American public&#8230;the two sides (doves and hawks) implicity agree that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://map150.org/archives/118</link>
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		<title>Students Speak Out</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times carried a story today that&#8217;s a sad, sad reminder of what&#8217;s wrong with our public school systems.  In Little Rock, which bore the shame of the nation as it refused to integrate its schools, a new also ugly battle has broken out.  Its black superintendent is embattled as he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://map150.org/archives/115</link>
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		<title>Complicity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I confess:  I&#8217;m an American Idol fan.  It&#8217;s not that I like the music or the celebrity hoo-ha.  Rather, each week a group of young adults put their hearts and souls on the line.  A waitress from a small town.  A backup singer who never thought she had the talent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bad, The Ugly, the Uglierâ€¦and the Good</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So many of our public decision-making processes are broken.  And the public knows it.  Here&#8217;s a recent sampling.
The bad.  People in Zambia are on the verge of starvationâ€¦in massive numbers.  It&#8217;s not that there isn&#8217;t enough readily available food.  There is.  It was grown by local farmers and stockpiled. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://map150.org/archives/113</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Complicated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday I was in a car accident in Minneapolis.  It wasn&#8217;t my fault, and it wasn&#8217;t serious, but it was interesting.  It happened next to Bob&#8217;s Java Hut in Minneapolis&#8211; my car was parked there at the stop sign in the picture.
I went in to buy a cup of coffee, and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://map150.org/archives/107</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Amazing Who You Meet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s late&#8230;nearing 2 a.m.  I&#8217;m wide awake thinking of how MAP 150 is sweeping along.  I&#8217;m just riding the current; it&#8217;s amazing who you meet.
A few weeks ago I spoke with Anthony Williams co-author of Wikinomics.  He starts his book with this true story.  A gold mining company in Canada is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://map150.org/archives/106</link>
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