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      <title><![CDATA[No Vacancy | Doing time in close quarters]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=60021</link>
      <description><![CDATA[There's a time bomb ticking at the David L. Moss Criminal Justice Center which has all the makings of either a fiscal or security crisis, or both. The ingredients of this tinder box are well known. They include an over-capacity population of violent offenders, underfunded critical needs which the Ju... By Terry Simonson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[War and Wordplay | Not-so-secret "secret bombings"]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=60020</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Did Israel bomb Damascus back on May 5? Of course it did. According to Syrian rebel sources, 42 Syrian army soldiers were killed. But Israel won't admit it. This has happened before. Usually, Syria doesn't say anything about Israeli airstrikes. (The Syrian government's complaint about Sunday's airst... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
      <category>Columns/Rant &amp;#39;N&amp;#39; Rall</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Something's Fishy | Questionable practices abound in OKC]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=60019</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A standard Republican talking point in recent years depicted the wisdom of Oklahoma's political leaders versus D.C.'s knuckleheads.

It went something like this:

Washington: dumb, Oklahoma City: sage. Washington: gridlocked, Oklahoma City: problem-solving. Washington: hyper-partisan, Oklahoma City:... By Arnold Hamilton.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Forgotten Parks | Advanced decay just one of the issues]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=60018</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Everything, it seems, in city service provision is wildly entangled.

While questioning the need for humongous public safety in the abstract is pointless and even heretical, Tulsa's hyper-conventional arrangements for doing/funding police and fire protection have at least two unintended outcomes: ci... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Love Letters/Hate Mail ]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Inked and Annoyed

(re: The Insider, May 9-15)

Dear UTW:

In the May 9 issue, you printed a column by Terry Simonson titled "Raising the Future, a Mother's Day Message," where he writes:

"We know girls are not immune to being fatherless. A girl needs a father every bit as much as a boy does. Howev...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Raising the Future | A Mother's Day Message]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=59758</link>
      <description><![CDATA[We have seen the face too often. It's the face of a young man accused of a mass killing of innocent people. From the president to Dr. Phil, everyone has an opinion on why this is happening. At some point, everyone points to the family situation of the accused. Almost without exception, what we find... By Terry Simonson.]]></description>
      <category>Columns/OpEd</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Why Closing Guant&aacute;namo is Easy | Obama doesn't need Congress, he needs Travelocity]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Guantanamo is complicated. Everyone says so.

Everyone is wrong.

There's nothing complicated about it: Guantanamo should be closed.

Mainstream media pundits don't get it. They suggest a lame hodgepodge of solutions: a few repatriations here, a few extraordinary renditions there, maybe convincing s... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Test-Testing Toll | Private screw-ups now very public]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=59756</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Last week's chaotic standardized school testing wasn't just a two-day cluster for students, teachers and test monitors. It was potentially a worst-case scenario for Oklahoma's school districts, their administrators and the rank-and-file citizens serving on their boards.

Why? Because you can bet som... By Arnold Hamilton.]]></description>
      <category>Columns/Capitolist</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Technology and Democracy | New ground to plow in the digital age, part 1]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Political campaigns are in the midst of a great transformation, and I'm not just talking simply about campaigns for national or statewide office. The huge changes in the way that candidates connect with voters are also affecting local races. And these seismic changes are very much in play in Tulsa's... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[Brave, Brave Sentiments (or, I Typed "Fuck" Because I'm Dangerous).

(re: Finding Thom Self, May 2-8)

Dear UTW:

Are you guys fucking kidding me? Or is it official, has Urban Tulsa finally become just another one of those bullshit publications filled with praise for the "talented locals" whose only...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Politics As Usual? | Candidates chase frivolity]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=59512</link>
      <description><![CDATA[In the political world, the equivalent of a Facebook user getting "liked" is the "endorsement" of a political candidate. Candidates for every political office start out early trying to garner as many endorsements as they can. By the end of the campaigns, the list of endorsements can be quite long.... By Terry Simonson.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Whys and Wherefores | When you ask "Why?" mean it]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Why would anybody want to kill innocent people?

That's what Americans -- led by the media reporters and pundits who set the agenda for discussion -- ask after every terrorist attack, particularly those carried out by foreigners.

Our mystified national cluelessness begs the question. Why do people... By Ted Rall.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[State Shenanigans | Legislature makes questionable decisions]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=59510</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A maximum of four weeks to go in the 2013 legislative session, a minimum of four things you ought to know:

1. If you're a state employee or a public school teacher, the Legislature is monkeying with your pension system.

Not just tinkering, not improving, but monkeying with it.

Police and firefigh... By Arnold Hamilton.]]></description>
      <category>Columns/Capitolist</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Brain-Works and T-Town | The National Brain Mapping Initiative and Tulsa, part 2]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Newly installed public-policy and media wunderkind Chris Hayes, who now runs MSNBC's prime time news and commentary show, says that managing climate change is humanity's biggest social, intellectual, and economic challenge since the industrial revolution and our embrace of the digital world. I think... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
      <category>Columns/City Scape</category>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <description><![CDATA[Driving in Circles

(re: Road Rash, April 18-24)

Dear UTW:

I am a long-time resident of Tulsa who deals with Riverside Drive daily. I remember the heated discussions about the so- called "slowing down Riverside Drive" 20 years ago and the expansion of Riverside Drive.

Jaime Adame needs to go back...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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