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         <title>Dan Tang pleads guilty in exchange for reduced sentence</title>
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          This morning, prominent Thornton restaurant owner Dan Tang pled guilty to one count of money laundering for his role in what investigators labeled the "Dan Tang Drug Trafficking Organizatio...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Colorado Crimes</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Dan Tang</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Joel Warner</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Operation Fortune Cookie</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02:12 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>The Balloon Boy meme: deconstructed</title>
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This video by the folks over at Rocketboom Institute for Internet Studies is a great hour-by-hour delineation on how the Falcon Heene/Balloon Boy saga went from a local news oddity to inter...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Jared Jacang Maher</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:57:11 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Not all grocery workers sold on &quot;ratification bonus&quot; gift cards</title>
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          Still no official response from United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 about this week's "last, best and final" contract proposals from King Soopers and Safeway. But several employees p...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:19:48 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Brit&apos;s Picks for the Starz Denver Film Festival, November 20-22: 45365, Applause and Giagante</title>
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          Editor's note: This year's Starz Denver Film Festival, November 12-22, features more than 200 films. To help navigate this cinematic abundance of riches, we asked fest artistic director Bri...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Television &amp; Film</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Things to Do</category>
        
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Brit Withey</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Michael Roberts</category>
        
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:02:21 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Local blogger finalist to cover Winter Olympics for Microsoft</title>
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         What writer wouldn't want to cover the Olympics? The glitz, the glamor and the high-profile nature of the gig are just about irresistible, regardless of your feelings about winter sports. I ...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Tech</category>
        
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Amber Johnson</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Cory Casciato</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Ellen DeGeneres</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Mile High Mamas</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:29:15 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Denver Blogs: It&apos;s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas</title>
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          Here are some local sites you might enjoy visiting.

A thread on DenverRadio.net's Comments & Rumors board begins with questions about why no local stations have started playing wall-to-wal...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Politics</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Josh McDaniels</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Kyle Orton</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Mark Udall</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Michael Roberts</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:57:24 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Medical-marijuana price hikes from too many regulations worry Denver councilman</title>
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          While some officials seem to see the ongoing medical-marijuana boom as a threat to all that's good and strong and true about our fair state, Denver city councilman Chris Nevitt is focusing ...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Follow That Story</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Marijuana</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Charlie Brown</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Chris Nevitt</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">medical marijuana</category>
        
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:45:02 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Shmuck of the Week: Mark Kiszla, sports columnist extraordinaire </title>
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         You don't expect much from your daily-newspaper sports columnists these days. Sentences that make sense, some well-placed punctuation, maybe a bad pun or two. But while our expectations have...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Shmuck of the Week</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Denver Broncos</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Joe Tone</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Kyle Orton</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Mark Kiszla</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:55:49 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Is CU&apos;s cupboard less bare than we thought?</title>
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          If moral victories mattered at this point (which they don't), CU's 31-28 loss to Oklahoma State last night would definitely qualify.

Yes, I know: OSU was without starting quarterback (and ...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Follow That Story</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Sports</category>
        
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Dan Hawkins</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Michael Roberts</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Mike Shanahan</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Tyler Hansen</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">University of Colorado at Boulder</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:28:00 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Kenny Be&apos;s Friday Afternoon Club: Tea and sympathy</title>
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         Blue Sky Collective artists Lori Clayton and Kathy Nutt join Jessica Noonan at Hootenanny Candies and Tea...

"Lori, Kathy, the bad news is that the artist collective must vacate the premise...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Jessica Noonan</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Kathy Nutt</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Lori Clayton</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:57:46 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Our updated medical-marijuana directory</title>
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Today marks the debut of another new medical-marijuana critic, William Breathes. In the meantime, we're continuing to regularly update our directory of dispensaries, which is growing longer...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">medical marijuana</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Michael Roberts</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:09:14 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Mile Highs and Lows: Walking Raven Dispensary</title>
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         As Colorado's medical-marijuana industry grows, marijuana dispensaries of all types and sizes are proliferating around the state. Some resemble swanky bars or sterile dentist offices; others...]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:28 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Sports Guy signing: On the off chance Bill Simmons gets hammered at the Tattered Cover tonight...</title>
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         ESPN Sports Guy and Broncos bandwagon driver Bill Simmons is in Denver tonight, for the last stop on his fall book-signing tour. If you have or want a copy of his new tome, The Book of Baske...]]></description>
         <link>http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/11/sports_guy_signing_on_the_off.php</link>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Joe Tone</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:54:34 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Is this anti-Obama billboard racist? You be the judge</title>
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          So... whaddya think? Is this billboard, on display outside Wolf Interstate Leasing & Sales, 4855 Miller Street in Wheat Ridge, a bold (and legitimate) statement of displeasure with the Obam...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category">Follow That Story</category>
        
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">David Sirota</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Michael Roberts</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Peter Boyles</category>
        
          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Phil Wolf</category>
        
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:22 -0700</pubDate>
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         <title>Nicole Fox: Q&amp;A with the Top Model winner</title>
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          On Wednesday night, Louisville's own Nicole Fox was named the winner of America's Next Top Model. (Relive the season by visiting our recap archive.) That meant a day spent yesterday meeting...]]></description>
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          <category domain="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag">Michael Roberts</category>
        
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         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:37:07 -0700</pubDate>
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