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		<title>Take the money and run for office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s any part of you that remains hopeful about what national political systems or government can do for the average resident of this country, I invite you to have your soul crushed by this excellent and compelling hour of reporting from This American Life about the incredible role money plays in U.S. politics and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/2012/04/money-politics-congress/</link>
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		<title>RP&amp;L, Steve Saum and employee performance reviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2012 has been a challenging year so far for the leadership of Richmond Power &#38; Light, Richmond&#8217;s municipally owned power company. Most of the strife centers around the firing of RP&#38;L General Manager Steve Saum; the short version is that the Board of Directors unexpectedly removed Saum from his position after a negative performance review, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/2012/03/rpl-saum-performance-reviews/</link>
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		<title>Sunshine Week: disclosure&#039;s benefits justify potential sting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a pat of my role on the Palladium-Item editorial board, I have a viewpoints piece in today&#8217;s paper about Sunshine Week 2012, a national initiative to promote a dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information. Participants include news media, civic groups, libraries, nonprofits, schools and others interested in the public&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/2012/03/sunshine-week-transparency/</link>
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		<title>Learning to improvise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In December I received the great gift of a 7-week beginner improv acting class, which I&#8217;ve just completed this past week.  I&#8217;d apparently remarked casually several times in front of Kelly that it might be fun to take an acting class some day, and knowing me as she does around experiences that might be outside [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/2012/03/learning-to-improvise/</link>
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		<title>7 Ways to Help Young Professionals Engage in Richmond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a new group in town &#8211; H.Y.P.E. Richmond &#8211; that is working to &#8220;connect and mobilize young professionals to make the Richmond area an even greater place to live, work, and play.&#8221;  If you&#8217;re interested in those efforts, you might consider joining in on the brainstorming session they&#8217;re having tonight at the Firehouse BBQ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/2012/02/help-young-professionals-engage-richmond/</link>
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		<title>I&#039;ll pay you to help improve local public discourse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, one of the online community resources I maintain, ProgressiveWayneCounty.org, soft-launched a new program where we&#8217;re paying local community members to blog for the site.   During that time, we&#8217;ve already had some great contributions with reflections on affordable housing, national politics, over-simplifying our choices in the world, some heartfelt advice on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/2012/02/pwc-improve-public-discourse/</link>
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		<title>Framing and Right to Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Indiana General Assembly is advancing the so-called &#8220;Right to Work&#8221; legislation, with the state Senate expected to vote on the proposal Wednesday that the state House approved a version of last week. Putting aside the substance of the legislation for a moment, the whole debate has been a fascinating exercise in political framing: Using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/2012/01/framing-right-to-work-indiana/</link>
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		<title>In The Plex, a great history of Google</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading Steven Levy&#8217;s In the Plex, a great history of Google, Inc.&#8216;s origins and growth, and a great insight into what the company could look like in the future, or at least how it might get there. The story of Google that matters for most people is how it affects their daily [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/2012/01/review-in-the-plex-book/</link>
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		<title>Stand With Main Street ads and taxing online commerce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You might open a newspaper soon to see an ad like the one at right which appeared in my local paper a few days ago.  It encourages you to &#8220;Stand With Main Street&#8221; to protest &#8220;special treatment&#8221; of Amazon.com that allows them to forgo the collection of sales tax on online purchases, resulting in an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/2012/01/stand-with-main-street-taxing-online-commerce/</link>
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		<title>A City is a Startup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend Jon Bischke made the interesting comparison of a start-up company to city government in A City Is A Startup: The Rise Of The Mayor-Entrepreneur.  Bischke notes that the factors that go into a successful entrepreneurial effort are similar to the ones that make for a successful city: Build stuff people want, offer products [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrishardie.com/2012/01/a-city-is-a-startup/</link>
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