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      <title><![CDATA[Welcome To "Camp Long Slough" | Mayoral run-off is strange territory]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[We have a numbing spectacle unfolding: a year-long contest for Tulsa mayor with five months to go.

In an interesting result, given indications from the pre-election Tulsa World/Sooner poll -- a poll that now looks defective -- former mayor Kathy Taylor came in a clear first in last week's primary e... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Weather Monsters &amp; Stupidity | Bankrupt thinking has no place in tornado alley]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The monster twister that ravaged Moore and the smaller events last month in the same area should be a wake-up call for Oklahomans. The tragedies call for us to honor the lives of the adults and the children who were killed, and obviously, the events call for giving fevered thanks to the emergency se... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Two Signature Women | The quest for the big chair]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[After fits and starts in the '90s and some uncertain advances in our still-new century, women are cruising in the stratosphere of American politics.

If you look at politico storyboards for the 2016 presidential election, former senator and secretary of state Hillary Clinton is, unsurprisingly, at t... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Saving The Game | The future of football]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In the past two years, the outrage surrounding sports-related concussions has mounted. In January 2011, Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) called for a Federal Trade Commission investigation of the football helmet industry for 'misleading safety claims and deceptive practices,' which the agency is currently p... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Stopping the Jail Train | Because it won't take us to Safeville]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Some years ago, I read a piece about nuclear-testing "tourism" in 1950s era Nevada -- an exotic, early form of what we'd call adventure tourism today. The Silver State was the venue for much of America's atomic weapons development program. Tour operators and major hotels would drive their guests to... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Forgotten Parks | Advanced decay just one of the issues]]></title>
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      <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[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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      <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>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Crafting the Open-Door City | Immigrants and T-Town's future, part 1]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Immigrants are magic assets for America. Some have even called the country's constant stream of newcomers our "secret sauce." In the modern era, people like Albert Einstein, Sidney Poitier, Igor Stravinsky, Rihanna, and others have enriched our culture and our intellectual store. And Elon Musk, a So... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Hidden World of Bullying | Tulsa play describes how problem can exist anywhere]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bullying has been with us since schools began. Interestingly enough, it looks as though, at least for the last 25 years, in this country and in much of Europe, bullying rates -- that is, the number of incidences per kid per day -- have been on a pretty steady keel. There is no epidemic of bullying,... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Sparking Schools | TPS superintendent's big gambit]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tulsa Public Schools, like most operations with any history or scale, is a mix of archipelagos of excellence, programs (schools) that are howling mediocrities, and dismal spots that might become stellar with epic, even radical re-works. A host of schools in North Tulsa, in west Tulsa and elsewhere a... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[People-Powered Process | Let neighborhoods decide on city spending]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The future favors cities with leaders who are peering around the corner.

We need to demand that all who would lead T-Town show us pieces of a leapfrog agenda for City Hall and the whole passel of services we associate with same.

This business of "basic services" and "basic this and that," and how... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Gravity Is Bringing Us Down | On the mayoral race and the city's direction]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[More cops, more money for streets, and a looser, more builder/developer "friendly" review process -- yeah that's the ticket -- right? If we listen to at least two of the candidates currently running for Tulsa mayor -- this is the path ahead for accelerated growth, a higher quality of life and a bett... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[Attack of the Brain Mappers | Neurological hijinks and their local importance]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When you're 120 -- and I'm betting a surprising share of you will arrive at that age (and by the way, I intend to be among you) -- will you still hear music and the sound of the glitzy folks going to and fro? When some of us are a century plus, will we be able to recognize our friends and relatives?... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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      <title><![CDATA[The Oracle Eats the World | Reflections on Buffett's paper purchase]]></title>
      <link>http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=57660</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Some days ago, I re-watched the 2011 film Page One.

If you haven't seen it and are interested in media, newspapers, and the "deep" meaning of Warren Buffett's recent purchase of the Tulsa World, you might take the time to see it -- the movie is riveting in a way I didn't expect.

Page One is, in su... By RAY PEARCEY.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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