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	<title>Whistleblower</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Whistleblower blog has moved</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/31/the-whistleblower-blog-has-moved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Whistleblowers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Star Tribune is still blowing the whistle, but our look and location have changed. Click here to get to the new blog. If you want the actual URL, it&#8217;s www.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower.html. Our blog posts will now be easier to search on the web site, but you&#8217;ll need to register to post a comment. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take a deep breath and don&#8217;t sign on a stranger&#8217;s dotted line, says Pete the insurance guy</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/20/take-a-deep-breath-and-dont-sign-on-a-strangers-dotted-line-says-pete-the-insurance-guy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Buyer beware]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[An insurance rep in Hennepin County sent along these thoughts advising storm-affected homeowners to think before they sign:
 I just wanted to make a note to your story about contractors and unscrupulous practices. Do not sign away your rights, people! We just received another call today from a victim standing in his yard dealing with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minneapolis woman says shady tree cutters are already roaming through the tornado zone</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/20/minneapolis-woman-says-shady-tree-cutters-are-already-roaming-through-the-tornado-zone/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/20/minneapolis-woman-says-shady-tree-cutters-are-already-roaming-through-the-tornado-zone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From a woman who asked to be identified only as Carolyn:

We live at 46th and Portland and had a very large boulevard tree blow down onto our&#8217;s and the neighbor&#8217;s yards, thankfully not hitting the houses. My hubby was outside, this guy comes up and says that because it&#8217;s a boulevard tree, the city would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBB: Tips on avoiding scammers and other unnatural hazards in the aftermath of Wednesday&#8217;s storms</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/20/bbb-tips-on-avoiding-scammers-and-other-unnatural-hazards-in-the-aftermath-of-wednesdays-storms/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/20/bbb-tips-on-avoiding-scammers-and-other-unnatural-hazards-in-the-aftermath-of-wednesdays-storms/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Barb Grieman, vice president of the Better Business Bureau of Minnesota and North Dakota, understands the psychology of people who suddenly find trees on their house or pieces of their roof missing. That guy who shows up at your door offering to fix it right away can be hard to refuse. Yet while natural disasters [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The next tax scofflaws targeted for public shame: bars, restaurants and liquor stores</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/18/the-next-tax-scofflaws-targeted-for-public-shame-bars-and-liquor-stores/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/18/the-next-tax-scofflaws-targeted-for-public-shame-bars-and-liquor-stores/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Businesses in hot water]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Public records]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This time, it&#8217;s the taxman yelling &#8220;Last call!&#8221; Having gotten so much notoriety (and cash) out of its public lists of tax delinquent businesses, the Minnesota Department of Revenue this week rolled out its newest deadbeat roster. (My colleague Bob Von Sternberg reports that 180 establishments owe $7.7 million).The list includes businesses now prohibited from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No grace period to pay health care premiums</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/17/no-grace-period-to-pay-health-care-premiums/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/17/no-grace-period-to-pay-health-care-premiums/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lora Pabst</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Buyer beware]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Complaint sagas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no surprise that Greg Lee isn&#8217;t the only unemployed Minnesotan to be caught off guard by a COBRA health coverage cancellation notice. His predicament, featured in my Sunday column , arose after a minor accounting error on his part. Lee&#8217;s coverage was administered through Igoe Administrative Services, a San Diego-based company that handles COBRA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A $25,000 windfall from the government? Even in the age of stimulus, don&#8217;t believe it</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/14/a-25000-windfall-from-the-government-even-in-the-age-of-stimulus-dont-believe-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/14/a-25000-windfall-from-the-government-even-in-the-age-of-stimulus-dont-believe-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, the phone rang in Diana Johnson&#8217;s home in Robbinsdale. The stranger on the line had a tantalizing offer: a no-strings-attached $25,000 grant from the government. He offered a list of reasons why she qualified, one of them being that she had no criminal record. Just give us your debit card number so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your news tips keep rolling in as Whistleblower&#8217;s mission expands</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/13/your-news-tips-keep-rolling-in-as-whistleblowers-mission-expands/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/13/your-news-tips-keep-rolling-in-as-whistleblowers-mission-expands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The widely-read story today of the state&#8217;s $25,000 fine slapped on the Anoka-Hennepin schools for two teachers&#8217; homophobic taunting of a student was a joint effort by Whistleblower researcher and reporter Jane Friedmann and Anoka County reporter Paul Levy. It&#8217;s also part of the Whistleblower team&#8217;s expanded mission: to report on how government agencies punish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some real-life pyrotechnics prompt recall of Wii recharge stations</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/12/some-real-life-pyrotechnics-prompt-recall-of-wii-recharge-stations/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/12/some-real-life-pyrotechnics-prompt-recall-of-wii-recharge-stations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Shiffer</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Buyer beware]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Dangerous products]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve got a hot hand at Super Mario Galaxy, it may be more than the excitement of the game. Minneapolis-based Griffin International Co. is recalling 220,000 recharge stations made for Nintendo Wii gaming controllers, sold under the Psyclone Essentials and React brands. The Chinese-made units developed a bad habit of overheating. Two users have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could wasps solve the problem of the flies?</title>
		<link>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/10/could-wasps-solve-the-problem-of-the-flies/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/whistleblower/2009/08/10/could-wasps-solve-the-problem-of-the-flies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lora Pabst</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Neighborhood nuisances]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Sunday Whistleblower column, I wrote about the frustrations of two rural Scott County residents whose homes have been bombarded by flies from the neighboring feedlot. The flies leave behind trails of excrement on the siding and windows of Richard Theis and Wiley Vogt&#8217;s homes.
Scott County got involved in the dispute because the feedlot [...]]]></description>
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