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		<title>An Old Idea: Wisconsin and its University</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2011/09/an-old-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 06:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This September marks the beginning of fall term for more than 180,000 students across the twenty-six campuses of the University of Wisconsin System. The return to school is an opportunity for reunion and renewal, for the discovery of new possibilities and the re-evaluation of old ideas — including the idea of public higher education itself. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laura Sherry and the Wisconsin Players: Little Theatre in the Badger State</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2011/05/laura-sherry-and-the-wisconsin-players-little-theatre-in-the-badger-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 03:28:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The announcement in the New York Times on October 9, 1917, was straightforward and short: "WISCONSIN PLAYERS COMING." The amateur acting company from Milwaukee, which had been at the vanguard of the American Little Theatre Movement for the better part of a decade, was about to make its East Coast debut. In bringing the Wisconsin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mississippi Flood: Awash In History</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2011/04/mississippi-flood-awash-in-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 03:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This article documents flooding that occurred in April 2011. As of May, Prairie du Chien is once more dry and green, and all the parks and historic sites mentioned below are now open for visitors. The Father of the Waters is reenacting a familiar natural drama at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Swollen by spring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing MapWI</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2011/03/introducing-mapwi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acceity.org/2011/03/introducing-mapwi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As state politics continue to draw interest around Wisconsin in the wake of Gov. Scott Walker's controversial new restrictions on collective bargaining, I have taken some time to develop a new website providing interactive maps of the Wisconsin Legislature and its key votes. You can give it a spin at mapwi.acceity.org (or MapWI.org for short). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin Census Data Released</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2011/03/wisconsin-census-data-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States Census Bureau today released its first official 2010 population figures for Wisconsin counties, cities, villages, and towns. These are exciting numbers, and not only for comparing rival cities and hometown trends. The census data will be used, among other things, to tweak the boundaries of congressional and state legislative districts to ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin Assembly Vote on Budget Repair: District by District</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2011/02/wisconsin-assembly-vote-map/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acceity.org/2011/02/wisconsin-assembly-vote-map/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: See my new site MapWI.org for interactive maps of the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly! By now just about everyone has heard about the contentious Wisconsin Assembly vote early Friday morning that approved Governor Scott Walker's contentious "budget repair" bill in mere seconds — without even allowing time for the entire assembly to vote! Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Be Fair, We Must Level Up</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2011/02/we-must-level-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protestors in Wisconsin on February 19, 2011. Photo &#169; 2011 Mark Danielson. Obtained under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic License. The protests this month in Madison have incorporated much discussion of fairness — something that people on all sides claim to be seeking. The debate reminds me of a quote by Dr. Samuel Johnson, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fallacy of Efficiency</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2011/02/the-fallacy-of-efficiency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is long overdue. For years now, I've cringed at the constant appeals for "increased efficiency" made by managers, executives, politicians, researchers, journalists, teachers, engineers, activists, bosses, columnists, liberals, designers, coaches, conservatives, accountants, and radio talk show hosts. I think it is safe to say that we all agree: all of us want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Iowa is now even more rural.</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2011/02/rural-iowa-is-now-even-more-rural/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acceity.org/2011/02/rural-iowa-is-now-even-more-rural/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's official: 66 of 99 counties in Iowa lost people between 2000 and 2010, even while the overall state population increased by 4.1% owing to the growth of large cities and especially suburbs — continuing a decades-long trend. These details from Census 2010 were released today by the U.S. Census Bureau: [Interactive map of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tale of Two News Feeds</title>
		<link>http://www.acceity.org/2011/01/tale-of-two-news-feeds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.acceity.org/2011/01/tale-of-two-news-feeds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protests in Egypt continue to make headlines across the globe today, but not everyone is getting the same story. Take a look at this morning's (8:00am CDT) top story from the web feeds of two leading news agencies on opposite sides of the Atlantic: the AP in the United States, and the BBC in the [...]]]></description>
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