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<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:26:50 -0600</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Letter: Reader answers the question seniors are asking, 'Where's my COLA?']]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ Where's MY COLA?<br /><br />This is in response to the letter writer wanting to know why seniors are always cheated.<br /><br />I guess you missed the stimulus that seniors just received of $250 and also talk of another in the]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Letter: With health care reform what happened to freedom]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ I'm very sad today, and frustrated, and a bit confused. With passage of the House health care reform bill, I'm left wondering where the America I love is heading and what has happened to freedom. It seems as though we]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[From early days to now, community hospitals among patient best bets]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ Mercy Hospital, Davenport, founded in 1869, was affordable and efficient by 1880. <br /><br />The hospital grounds resembled a small town with many buildings, a boiler house, the ice house, chicken house and a barn. Two cows supplied the milk]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[ As seen on TV --but wait, there's more!]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ As any experienced parent will tell you, the longer you can keep your kids watching PBS, the better. Because even though Barney the Dinosaur may fill you with an inexplicable rage not unlike what an African honey badger must feel]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[CHEERS & JEERS]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ JEERS to candidates who can't read a map. We've grown accustomed to being dismissed by Chicagocentric politicians who think there's nothing south of the collar counties. But that big, beautiful body of water that helps define us usually gets more]]></description>
   <link>http://www.qconline.com/archives/qco/display.php?id=467846</link>
   <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Letter: WWII vet doesn't want president bowing to Japan emperor]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ After what the empire of Japan did to our ocuntry on Dec. 7, 1941, it makes me sick to see our commander in chief on national television bowing to the emperor of that nation.<br /><br />I wonder if President Obama]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Letter: Manzullo insults millions of American Muslims over Thomson]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ Is it so easy to apologize after insulting millions of American Muslims? Rep. Don Manzullo believes he can, especially after seemingly taking a crash course in the history of Wahabis and the Ottoman Empire during the Middle Ages. I wonder]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Letter: Kudos to Hauberg photos, but not to calling Black Hawk chief]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ I enjoyed the photo tribute to John Hauberg Nov. 16. I was dismayed, however, when you violated your own policy by berferring to &quot;Chief&quot; Black Hawk. He was not a chief, but a warrior leader.<br /><br />Stephen E. Witte,<br /><br]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Letter: Students bagging hunger in record-breaking year]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ It was another great year for the Student Food Drive.  Through the efforts of thousands of students from 19 area high schools 694,000 pounds of food was collected for the poor and needy right here in our own community.]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Village weighed the facts, wants feds to choose Thomson for federal lockup]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ Thomson is hurting big time.  Businesses are closing, jobs are leaving and people are losing their homes.<br /><br />After living in limbo for eight years, we're open to any and all alternatives for utilizing the virtually vacant, state-of-the-art, maximum-security]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Fighting a coercion clause in health care reform proposals]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ PHOENIX -- In 2006, long before there was an Obama administration determined to impose a command-and-control federal health care system, a young orthopedic surgeon walked into the Goldwater Institute here with an idea. The institute, America's most potent advocate of]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Mammogram: What now?]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ Which is worse: The anxiety created by test results which falsely warn that you may have breast cancer or the possibility of not identifying the disease early enough to save your life?<br /><br />When we asked women with real life]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Views from QCA: Corruption 101 destroys America]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ We live in a beautiful country founded on freedom, equality and honor.  Over the years, our country has grown and prospered and become the envy of other countries in our world.  <br /><br />However, today our government is]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Editorial: Key villager needs our help]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ Key villager needs help<br /><br />"Everybody can be great.  Because anybody can serve.  You don't have to have a college degree to serve.  You don't have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.... You]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Is cash worth risk of bringing terrorists to Thomson?]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ So, exactly how much money is the Obama administration offering Gov. Pat Quinn to warehouse the Gitmo terrorists in Illinois?<br /><br />If you want to understand why Gov. Quinn and Sen. Dick Durbin want to house 200  ruthless American-hating]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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   <title><![CDATA[Burned up over shedding of leaves]]></title>
   <description><![CDATA[ Let's talk about burning leaves. The sooner we get the discussion over with, the sooner our blood pressure will drop out of the red zone and we can send the paramedics home.<br /><br />The trouble didn't start when municipalities prohibited]]></description>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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