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		<title>Mom wants to work but also watch 2-year-old</title>
		<link>http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130517/OPINION/130519298/1010/OPINION?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:21:44</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<hardreturn><strong>Dear Dave,</strong><br class="hardreturn" /><hardreturn><br />I'm a stay-at-home mom now, and my husband brings home $2,600 a month. We're trying to get out of debt, but we need more money coming in. I want to go back to work, but emotionally part of me feels like I should stay home with our 2-year-old daughter. What do you think?<br class="hardreturn" /><hardreturn>&mdash;&ensp;Kayla<br class="hardreturn" /><hardreturn><strong>Dear Kayla,</strong><br class="hardreturn" [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How far do we allow government to go?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:18:23</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is finding out that dodging bullets is hard. It is even harder when the bullets are coming from many different directions.]]></description>
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		<title>What's black and round  and tread all over?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 11:16:19</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found some lost property near my house.]]></description>
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		<title>The Money Story: Part IV</title>
		<link>http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130516/OPINION/130519411/1010/OPINION?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:13:08</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week will conclude the Money Story. We are going to move quickly, so fasten your seatbelt.]]></description>
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		<title>Countess me in</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 9:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was sitting around eating bonbons and watching TV like I always do in my challenging job as a stay-at-home mom, when I happened upon an interview with a real countess. I've always been fascinated by royalty, so I thought I'd tune in and find out what she was the countess of. Since most countesses hail from foreign lands, I naturally expected her to have a British accent or at the very least, something distinctly European sounding. But when she opened her mouth, she sounded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections in a makeshift memorial</title>
		<link>http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130515/OPINION/130519543/1010/OPINION?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:03:10</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you made it to the finish line yet?]]></description>
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		<title>The curse of Karzai's 'ghost money'</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 11:00:58</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a measure of how corrupt the Afghanistan enterprise has become that, when confronted with allegations he'd received millions of dollars in piles of cash from the CIA, President Hamid Karzai didn't even bother to deny it.]]></description>
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		<title>Edge of space</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:46:07</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most humans of both the small and grownup variety, my older son tends to save his more pressing philosophical, scientific and spiritual questions for the end of bedtime, after the books have been read and the teeth have been brushed and the lights have been turned out, when there's nothing left to do but think and stare at the ceiling - or, in his case, the structurally insecure-looking underside of the top bunk bed. (It's fine, it's fine, it just has a few alarming-looking cracks and some  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wandering about wheat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 14:44:29</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking at wheat throughout the central region of Kansas during the first couple days of May, members of the Wheat Quality Council (WQC) labeled the crop in fairly average to slightly above average condition.]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs data eases nation's fears </title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States economy created an estimated 165,000 jobs in April, pushing the unemployment rate to its lowest level since the end of 2008 and all but ensuring that the nation's employed will no longer have to worry about the plight of those without work.]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes still at issue in Topeka</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a longer-than-normal break, the Kansas Legislature is back in Topeka for wrap-up/veto session to finish up the work begun in January and going through April. We have a number of issues that may be taken up, but the only issue requiring action is the 2014 budget. Making adjustments to the tax revenues is actually optional, but the earlier we settle some of those issues the better for the state long-term]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks to all who made All Schools Day 100th great</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 16:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally in this space we give you our weekly Thumbs Up Thumbs Down column. This week, we are replacing it with a column of thanks to everyone in the community who helped organize or attended the All Schools Day 100th celebration.]]></description>
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		<title>What are 'necessities'? </title>
		<link>http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130510/OPINION/130519929/1010/OPINION?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:53:17</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<hardreturn><strong>Dear Dave,</strong><br class="hardreturn" /><hardreturn>Can you please define "necessities" in today's world while trying to get out of debt and live on a budget?<br class="hardreturn" /><hardreturn><strong>&mdash; Matthew</strong><br class="hardreturn" /><hardreturn><strong>Dear Matthew,</strong><br class="hardreturn" /><hardreturn>Whether you're talking about the world today or 50 years ago, necessities haven't changed. Necessities are still food, shelter, clothing, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How one 8-year-old learned to listen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:51:32</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a couple of parents asked me what they could do to get their daughter to listen and clean up after herself.]]></description>
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		<title>What do you get the mom who did everything?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 13:48:48</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's Mother's Day again.]]></description>
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		<title>The Money Story: Part III</title>
		<link>http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130509/OPINION/130509165/1010/OPINION?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Thu, 9 May 2013 11:36:48</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week saw how pure barter of goods eventually gave way to standardized metal coinage, often made of gold. Once these coins were in circulation, people began to accumulate them. This accumulation increased the risk of burglary, and caused men to seek safe storage for their new form of wealth.]]></description>
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		<title>Don't bark and drive</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 9 May 2013 11:35:06</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having had my share of issues at the gym, I thought I would mix it up one day and exercise outside instead. It was a gorgeous spring day ... the flowers were blooming, the birds were singing and the temperature was just perfect. Feeling a burst of seasonal energy, I decided to go for a run in my neighborhood.]]></description>
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		<title>Give mom the gift of praise</title>
		<link>http://www.mcphersonsentinel.com/article/20130508/OPINION/130509304/1010/OPINION?rssfeed=true</link> 
		<pubDate>Wed, 8 May 2013 10:50:15</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we were little it seemed as though mom had magic powers. If you had a boo-boo, she would kiss it and make it better. If you had a hard day at school, she had milk and cookies that would comfort you when you got home. She even seemed able to heal inside hurts as well as outside hurts. Somehow when we got bigger, as one little girl said sadly, &#8220;It doesn't work anymore.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Madam president:&#8200;Can it happen?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 8 May 2013 10:43:56</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a major push to elect a female president in 2016.]]></description>
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		<title>The high cost of putting teens in prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 7 May 2013 12:59:29</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[T.J. Parsell's crime was like lots of things teenagers do: stupid, impulsive and dangerous.  On a lark, he pointed a toy gun at a clerk at Photomat kiosk and demanded cash. He walked away with $50, but not for long.]]></description>
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