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		<title>Thank you all for your support!</title>
		<link>http://michaelkleen.com/2013/04/30/thank-you-all-for-your-support/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an exhausting and rewarding six months of campaigning, the election has come and gone, so I will be reactivating and updating my personal website. I would like to thank everyone who supported me, who voted for me, who made phone calls, sent emails, walked door to door, donated, and put out yard signs. You [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelkleen.com&#038;blog=4237642&#038;post=1577&#038;subd=makleen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Race About Ideas</title>
		<link>http://michaelkleen.com/2012/10/01/a-race-about-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2012 02:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of my readers may have heard that I am running for Mayor of Rockford. The rumors are true. Last week, I decided to throw my hat into the ring. After my run for county board in the primary election, I was not going to run for public office again for a very long time. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelkleen.com&#038;blog=4237642&#038;post=1513&#038;subd=makleen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public-Private Partnerships or Just Crony Capitalism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rockford Park District]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Public-Private Partnerships or Just Crony Capitalism? Published September 19, 2012 at Rock River Times “Public-private partnership” has become the latest buzzword among the political class and its supporters. Often used in combination with “economic development” (another favorite campaign slogan), it conjures the rosy image of government and the private sector walking hand-in-hand toward a more prosperous [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelkleen.com&#038;blog=4237642&#038;post=1508&#038;subd=makleen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rock Valley College Faces First Amendment Challenge from Student</title>
		<link>http://michaelkleen.com/2012/09/05/rock-valley-college-faces-first-amendment-challenge-from-student/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 14:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Campus Speech Codes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Amendment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Free Speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Becherer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rock Valley College]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rutherford Institute]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published September 5, 2012 at Rock River Times Campus speech codes and other rules governing expression at public colleges and universities have long been controversial. Now, Rock Valley College has landed itself in hot water over its policies concerning which students have access to campus bulletin boards and which do not. Dominic Celletti, a Criminal [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelkleen.com&#038;blog=4237642&#038;post=1501&#038;subd=makleen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Praise of the Wage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published August 22, 2012 at Rock River Times It is not easy to start, own, and run a business, but it is easy to overlook this fact. Most people, after all, have never owned a business. While clocking in and out every day, it is easy to imagine that your employers are living the high [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelkleen.com&#038;blog=4237642&#038;post=1494&#038;subd=makleen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Censorship in the Heartland</title>
		<link>http://michaelkleen.com/2012/08/13/censorship-in-the-heartland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new column is up at Disclosure News! As fans of Disclosure know, I recently returned to Charleston, Illinois to publish a Disclosure franchise called Disclosure Heartland. Starting a newspaper of this kind is not easy. It takes hard work, a lot of travel, and a lot of time and money. It is hard enough [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelkleen.com&#038;blog=4237642&#038;post=1483&#038;subd=makleen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Weak Link in the Chain of Justice</title>
		<link>http://michaelkleen.com/2012/08/08/a-weak-link-in-the-chain-of-justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:59:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Bruscato]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melvin J. Perkins]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[State’s Attorney]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest column has been published at the Rock River Times. This could be the most important column I have ever written about local politics. Previously, I have written about Rockford’s out of control crime rate, what can be done about it, and who deserves the blame. My columns have, so far, focused on one [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelkleen.com&#038;blog=4237642&#038;post=1472&#038;subd=makleen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Honest Conversation about Crime</title>
		<link>http://michaelkleen.com/2012/07/25/an-honest-conversation-about-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chet Epperson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime and Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disorder]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Safe Streets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is time for an honest conversation about crime in Rockford, a conversation that focuses on solutions rather than excuses. For far too long, politicians and public officials have gotten away with blaming everything under the sun but themselves for their impotence in the face of the city’s problems. For years they have offered the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelkleen.com&#038;blog=4237642&#038;post=1463&#038;subd=makleen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Escaping Leviathan</title>
		<link>http://michaelkleen.com/2012/07/11/escaping-leviathan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gambling]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Government Spending]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grants]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My latest column is up at the Rock River Times: In this column, I will tackle two subjects: state and federal grants, and Prof. John Kindt’s guest column on Illinois gambling taxation in last week’s issue of the Rock River Times. Both of these subjects nicely illustrate the difference between advocates for bigger government and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelkleen.com&#038;blog=4237642&#038;post=1452&#038;subd=makleen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toward a Medicaid Model of Public Education</title>
		<link>http://michaelkleen.com/2012/06/13/toward-a-medicaid-model-of-public-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 04:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Kleen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education in Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois Teacher Association]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past several years, education reformers (as well as parents) have come to ask fundamental questions about the nature of our public school system. Why, for example, despite the ever-increasing amount of tax dollars spent per pupil in grades K-12, have increases in test scores virtually flat lined since the 1970s? Why has improvement [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=michaelkleen.com&#038;blog=4237642&#038;post=1437&#038;subd=makleen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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