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	<title>ArizonaNotebook.com... By Mike Padgett</title>
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		<title>Oregon Troubadour Casey Neill&#8217;s Creative Odyssey, From Folk to Alt-Rock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sept. 3, 2010
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – It was in late July 2009 when I first heard Casey Neill’s music. My Best Friend and I were staying at a historic hotel in downtown Portland, Ore.
She was surfing the TV channels when she stopped on Oregon Public Broadcasting. The program was a new feature about Neill, his group [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=1081</link>
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		<title>Of Odd Dreams, a Leg Infection and Dedication to Medical Careers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aug. 8, 2010
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – The strangest dreams invaded my nights earlier this month. Instead of counting sheep, I encountered monstrous images. In a narrow tunnel with falling flakes of gold, I faced a smiling lime green snake large enough to swallow a bull.
Under a black sky, I floated over an endless sea of royal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=1062</link>
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		<title>Bookends Through Eternity, or Sprinkled in Several Time Zones?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July 18, 2010
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – It’s probably time to give some thought to my funeral. Don’t worry; I plan to be around for a while, maybe forever.
Our financial planner’s schedule takes us as far out as age 102. I told him that’s not long enough. I don’t want to run out of cash before it’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=1046</link>
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		<title>Historic Denver Hotel&#8217;s History, Elegance Offer Luxurious Retreat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July 11, 2010
DENVER ­– The startling sights inside the 1892 hotel’s onyx lobby quickened our heartbeats. High enough for eagles to fly is this soaring eight-story atrium topped with original stained glass.
There are other upscale hotels with large atriums, but many are of austere, contemporary design. However, this hotel is unique. It is neither plain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=1001</link>
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		<title>Theft Darkens a Successful Conference; Suspect Tracked via GPS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July 7, 2010
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Was it a crime of opportunity? Or had the thief been stalking the women’s room?
Recently, one day after the end of an international conference in another state, a friend and two other women entered a restroom in the convention center. They were part of the host organization, and they had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=981</link>
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		<title>Different Cultures Strengthen a City&#8217;s Ethnic, Historical Tapestry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 28, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO– Rolling stones on two feet, in suits or jeans and jackets, are part of the energy of San Francisco.
Some of this city’s free spirits and forever young carry children or groceries.
Others, full of youth, or not, tote backpacks and briefcases.
They make pit stops for coffee and bump BART turnstiles on their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=958</link>
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		<title>Arizona&#8217;s Housing Market Improving, Despite Controversies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 17, 2010
PHOENIX – Random thoughts from Arizona’s business and political sidelines:
• A new report from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University shows the median price of single-family housing in metro Phoenix is up 5.5 percent so far this calendar year. In January, the median price was $136,500. In April, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=950</link>
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		<title>Of Robber Barons, Teddy Roosevelt and Firefighters Running into Flames</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 11, 2010
If you’re interested in reading about everyday life in the United States in the early 20th Century, and how its citizens survived the sorry side of government, read Pulitzer Prize-winner Timothy Egan’s “The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America.”
Egan, a Seattle-based journalist who writes a column for The New York [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=926</link>
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		<title>California&#8217;s Oldest City Offers Nonstop Photo Ops</title>
		<description><![CDATA[April 28, 2010
SAN DIEGO, Calif. –The afternoon we arrived in San Diego, the brisk winds blew strong enough to straighten curly hair.
Two days later, it was calm. The skies were clear. The coastal temperatures were in the 70s.
We love this city. Especially its ocean breezes, Balboa Park, sunsets off Point Loma, and holding hands on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=893</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Land of Oz&#8217; Nickname Fits Australia&#8217;s Magic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[April 20, 2010
MELBOURNE, Australia – The wheels are coming up on this steel bird lifting off from the Land of Oz.
Our United Airlines 747 climbs easily, pointed east from Melbourne, bound for Sydney. There we’ll change planes for a nonstop flight to Los Angeles.
The 747 crew’s commentary fades as I look back at Melbourne and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=857</link>
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		<title>New Book Delivered by Arizona’s ‘Cowboy Baby Doctor’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[April 16, 2010
KINGMAN, Ariz. –An Arizona doctor who once a month rides his horse into the Grand Canyon to treat Native American patients is touring the state to promote his first book.
Dr. Kenneth Jackson, known in Kingman as the “cowboy baby doctor,” is the author of &#8220;Manifest West.&#8221; He will be at book signings April [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=839</link>
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		<title>Arizona Politics Trumps Economics; Students, Needy Families To Suffer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 21, 2010
EDITORIAL
Are Arizona&#8217;s leaders, struggling with an overpowering deficit, downsizing state programs too far?
Last week, Gov. Jan Brewer signed the state’s fiscal 2011 budget of $8.9 billion, which is a reduction of  $1.1 billion.
Budget supporters called the new budget a streamlining of state government. Critics say it is hardhearted, with more pain to follow.
Arizona’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=815</link>
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		<title>Butterfly Exhibit Star Attraction at Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 14, 2010
PHOENIX, Ariz. – A few steps inside their sanctuary, while I was adjusting my camera, I was embraced by two tiny sparks of life as delicate as moonlight. They grabbed my hand with their tiny feet.
All I could do, to avoid startling my two new friends, was stand still. They explored my hand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=795</link>
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		<title>Desert Viking Starting New Phase of San Marcos Commons in Chandler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 10, 2010
CHANDLER, Ariz. – Maybe, just maybe, the term “leapfrog development” in central Arizona soon will fade into history, like rotary telephones and index cards.
Maybe developers and cities and homebuyers are starting to recognize the value and long-range importance of higher-density communities in central cities, where a sense of community and easier access to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=780</link>
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		<title>Arizona&#8217;s Sunrise Walks and Wildlife, Chimichangas and Historic Buildings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 7, 2010
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Just a few of my Arizona favorites: A lone bull elk grazing on the lawn early one November morning as I stepped out of El Tovar Lodge at Grand Canyon. I never had seen a bull elk, much less been so close to one. Lunch at the Arizona Biltmore Resort [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=760</link>
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		<title>A California University&#8217;s Chapel is Rooted Deep in State&#8217;s Early History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[March 4, 2010
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Out of the corner of my eye, an urban beggar with a long tail distracts me. I was standing on the campus of Santa Clara University, admiring its chapel, the Mission Santa Clara de Asis.
The Franciscan mission became the eighth of 21 founded in California in the 1700s by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=734</link>
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		<title>Luxury Hotel, Convention Center Planned by Pascua Yaqui Tribe in Tucson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feb. 22, 2010
TUCSON, Ariz. – A luxury hotel with 215 rooms and a conference center accommodating up to 1,500 guests are planned adjacent to the Pascua Yaqui Tribe’s Casino Del Sol.
Designs for the multimillion-dollar expansion project include includes a steakhouse with seating for 100; an international buffet with seating for up to 250; a lobby [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=725</link>
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		<title>Doctors Offering Five-Star Customer Service at New Cancer Clinic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feb. 10, 2010
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – When their doctors say those gritty words, “It’s cancer,” patients often see themselves heading down a one-way road. And it looks rough.
They suck in their breath. Their fingers, searching for anything to hold onto, turn into white-knuckled fists. Their courage is challenged. They think about hair loss. Nausea. Or worse.
Aware [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=705</link>
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		<title>Historic Church in Southern Arizona is a Visual, Religious Beacon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feb. 2, 2010
TUCSON, Ariz. –After a week of January storms, the air in southern Arizona was clean and fresh. So were the historic church’s dome and towers, glistening as white as the new snow blanketing the mountains north and east of Tucson.

San Xavier del Bac, nicknamed the &#8220;White Dove of the desert,&#8221;  is like a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=660</link>
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		<title>Tucson Selected for Solar Energy Plant by Bell Independent Power</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jan. 19, 2010
TUCSON, Ariz. – The UA Tech Park in Tucson will be home to a new 5-megawatt solar plant with a thermal storage system that will be the first of its type in the world.
The new facility will be developed, financed, owned and operated by Bell Independent Power Corp. of Rochester, N.Y. The projected [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://arizonanotebook.com/?p=650</link>
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