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	<title>Mike Gallagher</title>
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		<title>Game time approaches</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 5 p.m., in other words it&#8217;s 75 minutes before first pitch of the Daily Record softball team&#8217;s game against the Tav. It&#8217;s our first game, and we basically have our debut against the Yankees of Ellensburg men&#8217;s slow-pitch. Oh well, it&#8217;s just the first game of many. My column this week will go deeper [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvnews.newswest.com/blogs/gallagher/?p=123</link>
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		<title>(f)ear discussion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at the checkout in the grocery store, juggling the multiple cards I need to slide and trying to rapidly click through the requests for donations, so I wasn&#8217;t paying much attention to the clerk. I thought she asked me how the corn was and I told her it&#8217;s been pretty good this season. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvnews.newswest.com/blogs/gallagher/?p=121</link>
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		<title>Vacation travels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People like to complain about traveling — whether air travel or trains, but having taken Amtrak to Chicago, then traveled around Chicago on pretty much every form of transit, from trains to boats, and ending with a plane trip back to Seattle, I&#8217;d like to testify on the incredible efficiency of the American travel systems. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvnews.newswest.com/blogs/gallagher/?p=119</link>
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		<title>Not a good topic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each week I spend probably a day or two or three, never more than five, trying to think up an idea for a column. If I&#8217;m really stumped some times I find it useful to look at the calendar. Often I&#8217;m inspired by discovering something like, &#8220;Hey, Christmas is next week.&#8221; Anyway, this week I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvnews.newswest.com/blogs/gallagher/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Passing of sports legends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a tough week for my sports heros. First came the death of the Thoroughbred Chinook Pass. I spent many a glorious afternoon as a teen watching the ninth and 10th races at Longacres. Entry to the track was free after the eighth race, so I&#8217;d either go with one of my uncles or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvnews.newswest.com/blogs/gallagher/?p=115</link>
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		<title>Musical notes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to an interview with the lead singer of Green Day on NPR last week and it got me to thinking about music groups that do and don&#8217;t remain relevant. Green Day seems like a good band to me, they just came around slightly past the time I was listening to that type [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvnews.newswest.com/blogs/gallagher/?p=113</link>
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		<title>God in school</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There will be a letter from Kurt Sharar in Thursday&#8217;s Daily Record, touching on this topic, but I thought I&#8217;d chip in a little early. Sharar&#8217;s letter addresses the notion that society is in the toilet because religion has been exorcised from the schools and that in the glory days of the 1940s and 1950s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvnews.newswest.com/blogs/gallagher/?p=111</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not the U.N., afterall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who read the Daily Record now know that those helicopters I&#8217;ve heard the past couple weeks and assumed to be the dreaded &#8220;black helicopters&#8221; employed by the U.N. for nefarious but never explained reasons were actually state Department of Natural Resources helicopters taking part in training for the upcoming fire season. Oh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvnews.newswest.com/blogs/gallagher/?p=109</link>
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		<title>Helicopter traffic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We live a few blocks from Kittitas Valley Community Hospital and can hear when the helicopters arrive and leave for medical transports. I haven&#8217;t heard that many lately, which is why I really noticed the heavy helicopter traffic at night these past few days. Although I haven&#8217;t checked the hospital calls that closely, I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvnews.newswest.com/blogs/gallagher/?p=106</link>
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		<title>Pandora&#8217;s box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a little behind the curve on this one, but this past year I&#8217;ve become hooked on Pandora.com. Pandora is a website that allows you to build your own radio station. You select an artist and the website plays that group&#8217;s music plus music from similar artists. You can also add featured artist to expand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kvnews.newswest.com/blogs/gallagher/?p=99</link>
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