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		<title>Unfocused</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the first edition of FOCUS/Midwest magazine. The magazine discontinued publication in 1983 after it was folded into a sister publication, the St. Louis Journalism Review (now the Gateway Journalism Review). Starting in 2008, an attempt was made to revive FOCUS/Midwest. Four online prototypes were produced, but the project [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&#038;blog=5103025&#038;post=2014&#038;subd=focusmidwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The past instructs us</title>
		<link>http://focusmidwest.com/2011/09/04/labor-day-2011-the-lessons-of-the-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focusmidwest.com/?p=1989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remarks by Bob Zieger (University of Florida, emeritus) at the annual Labor Day Breakfast, Sept. 3, 2011, sponsored by the North Central Florida Central Labor Council, Gainesville. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka has recently said that “nostalgia for organized labor’s past is no strategy for our future.” As a historian, however, I do think that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&#038;blog=5103025&#038;post=1989&#038;subd=focusmidwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In and about F/m</title>
		<link>http://focusmidwest.com/2011/07/02/in-and-about-fm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 01:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The St. Louis Journalism Review, younger sibling of FOCUS/midwest, celebrated its 40th anniversary last year and a move to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. The publication marks the occasion at an event on Sept. 15, from 6-9 p.m., at the Edward Jones Building in Des Peres.  Russ Mitchell of CBS is emcee; Bob Woodward of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&#038;blog=5103025&#038;post=1852&#038;subd=focusmidwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NRC acts on request to reopen Callaway investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focusmidwest.com/?p=1761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Lawrence Criscione asked a Nuclear Regulatory Commission review board last week to reopen an investigation of an incident at AmerenUE’s Callaway nuclear power plant in Missouri, the nuclear engineer expressed no hope that the federal agency would honor his request. “I believe the decision has already been made that this petition will be bureaucratically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&#038;blog=5103025&#038;post=1761&#038;subd=focusmidwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winter 2010-2011 edition is now available</title>
		<link>http://focusmidwest.com/2010/12/01/winter-2010-2011-edition-is-now-available/</link>
		<comments>http://focusmidwest.com/2010/12/01/winter-2010-2011-edition-is-now-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:37:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[J.J. Maloney was facing life behind the walls of the Missouri Penitentiary, sentenced for the murder of a 74-year-old businessman during a botched robbery. Remarkably, Maloney wrote his way to freedom &#8212; some of his work found its way to the pages of this magazine &#8212; and he kept writing, becoming one of the Midwest’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&#038;blog=5103025&#038;post=1724&#038;subd=focusmidwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The gap: Why black men are losing ground to white men</title>
		<link>http://focusmidwest.com/2010/10/12/the-gap-why-black-men-are-losing-ground-to-white-men/</link>
		<comments>http://focusmidwest.com/2010/10/12/the-gap-why-black-men-are-losing-ground-to-white-men/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Midwest has become a cold place for African-Americans. A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis District, finds that the earnings gap between white and black men in the Midwest has been getting progressively bigger for over a generation. And the earnings gap keeps growing despite the huge strides that black men [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&#038;blog=5103025&#038;post=1704&#038;subd=focusmidwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reimagining a prairie</title>
		<link>http://focusmidwest.com/2010/10/05/reimagining-a-prairie/</link>
		<comments>http://focusmidwest.com/2010/10/05/reimagining-a-prairie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focusmidwest.com/?p=1678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; Stalwart plants grasp at our shoelaces, whip at our thighs, and send forth seeds to journey to new destinations upon our clothes as our little tour group continues plodding at an undaunted pace through The Nature Conservancy’s Nachusa Grasslands of north-central Illinois. Here at this nearly 3,000-acre site near Franklin Grove, Illinois, the sky [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&#038;blog=5103025&#038;post=1678&#038;subd=focusmidwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting &#8220;Revolution in America&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://focusmidwest.com/2010/08/30/revisiting-revolution-in-america/</link>
		<comments>http://focusmidwest.com/2010/08/30/revisiting-revolution-in-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; Job statistics offer a measure of the recent recession’s depth, but tell only part of the story. A recent report, by MIT economist David Autor, makes the case that the middle is dropping out of the job market; specifically, the economy is rapidly shedding certain kinds of occupations that used to be solid tickets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&#038;blog=5103025&#038;post=1619&#038;subd=focusmidwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100 sites about journalism, communications</title>
		<link>http://focusmidwest.com/2009/12/10/whats-the-buzz/</link>
		<comments>http://focusmidwest.com/2009/12/10/whats-the-buzz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focusmidwest.com/?p=1225</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when hundreds and hundreds of unemployed or underemployed communications workers converge with digital media? You get a veritable revolution, staged on multiple platforms, and the flowering of hundreds and hundreds of websites devoted to criticism, analysis, innovation, self-promotion and related topics. [Here] are 100 of them of varying quality, listed alphabetically. Feel free [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&#038;blog=5103025&#038;post=1225&#038;subd=focusmidwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Parallels between Twitter and Orwell&#8217;s Newspeak</title>
		<link>http://focusmidwest.com/2009/11/23/twitter-as-newspeak-how-tweeting-creates-nitwits/</link>
		<comments>http://focusmidwest.com/2009/11/23/twitter-as-newspeak-how-tweeting-creates-nitwits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It can be argued that Twitter has emerged as a legitimate form of communication that could influence how children will spell &#8212; and think &#8212; in the future. Both Fox News and CNN have adopted the form and syntax of Twitter for their closed captions, so that Twitter is no longer merely a computer shorthand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&#038;blog=5103025&#038;post=1185&#038;subd=focusmidwest&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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