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		<title>Marking time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 03:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few posts and no new editions in 2011, but readers are still finding FOCUS/midwest. Here’s a look at the magazine by the numbers, as of Dec. 31, 2011. 32,212:  Hits on the magazine’s website, focusmidwest.com, since its creation in Oct. 8, 2008. That’s an increase of nearly 8,700, or 37 percent, in the past year. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&amp;blog=5103025&amp;post=2014&amp;subd=focusmidwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Day 2011: The Lessons of the Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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&amp;blog=5103025&amp;post=1989&amp;subd=focusmidwest&amp;ref=&amp;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&amp;blog=5103025&amp;post=1852&amp;subd=focusmidwest&amp;ref=&amp;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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		<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&amp;blog=5103025&amp;post=1761&amp;subd=focusmidwest&amp;ref=&amp;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>
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		<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&amp;blog=5103025&amp;post=1724&amp;subd=focusmidwest&amp;ref=&amp;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[From the fall edition of FOCUS/midwest. The entire issue is available for free at at Issuu (http://bit.ly/9Ig7cX) and Scribd (http://scr.bi/anPe6T). By PETER DOWNS 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&amp;blog=5103025&amp;post=1704&amp;subd=focusmidwest&amp;ref=&amp;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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Nachusa Grasslands, the Nature Conservancy explores the possibilities By JEANNE HANDY PHOTOGRAPHS BY TOM HANDY From the fall edition of FOCUS/midwest, available for free at at Issuu (http://bit.ly/9Ig7cX) and Scribd (http://scr.bi/anPe6T). The Prairies. I behold them for the first, And my heart swells, while the dilated sight Takes in the encircling vastness. – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&amp;blog=5103025&amp;post=1678&amp;subd=focusmidwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fall 2010 edition is now available</title>
		<link>http://focusmidwest.com/2010/09/10/coming-october-1-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 04:02:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fall edition of FOCUS/midwest is now online. The 100-page publication is available at Issuu (http://bit.ly/9Ig7cX) and Scribd (http://scr.bi/anPe6T). The publication is e-reader accessible. Subject matter includes the economy, wages, auto manufacturing, adult entertainment and the environment. Several features also look at aspects of life during the Great Depression. And, in keeping with tradition, FOCUS/midwest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&amp;blog=5103025&amp;post=1636&amp;subd=focusmidwest&amp;ref=&amp;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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A warning about the U.S. economy, issued more than four decades ago (The full version of this article was published in the fall edition of FOCUS/midwest, available for free at Issuu and Scribd.) Job statistics offer a measure of the recent recession’s depth, but tell only part of the story. A recent report, by MIT [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&amp;blog=5103025&amp;post=1619&amp;subd=focusmidwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Locked out in Metropolis: &#8220;Somebody&#8217;s going to get killed&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://focusmidwest.com/2010/08/24/locked-out-in-metropolis-somebodys-going-to-get-killed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:58:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A full version of this article by St. Louis writer C.D. Stelzer appears in the fall edition of FOCUS/midwest, available for free at Issuu (http://bit.ly/9Ig7cX) and Scribd (http://scr.bi/anPe6T). . . . He says the troubles began when Honeywell International Inc. disbanded his union’s safety committee. In its place, his employer implemented a program named “behavioral [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=focusmidwest.com&amp;blog=5103025&amp;post=1544&amp;subd=focusmidwest&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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