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		<title>Home Country – The Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 14:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Mendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Mendell Inquirer Editor Book Review – Home Country: Drama, Dreams and Laughter from America’s Heartland, by Slim Randles, published by Rio Grande Books, www.LPDPress.com, available on Amazon and www.slimrandles.com A few months back I started getting the Home County columns free in my email inbox. I didn’t order them. They just showed up. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Chair</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Mendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Mendell Inquirer Editor It was about two years ago (May 31 to be exact) that I was called in to finish the June 1 edition of the Galion Inquirer as editor. The office had lost electricity, the servers were down, the staff was in shock. Since then I have learned a lot about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The End?</title>
		<link>http://galioninquirer.com/2012/12/end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Mendell Is Dec. 21 the First Day of Winter or End of the World? If the Dooms Day Folks have it right, by Friday none of us will be here and the world will end. Somehow. Maybe that 6-mile-wide asteroid will change course and fly the remaining 4.3 million miles into the earth. Maybe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial</title>
		<link>http://galioninquirer.com/2012/11/editorial-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I received a few calls about folks going to the board of elections and requesting petitions to run for public office, the large majority of which want to run for mayor or city council. The problem is, the hard working people at the board of elections have no information. They don’t know which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Domestic WarHorse attends Messiah Rehearsal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Mendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Mendell Monday night I attended another rehearsal of The Messiah, a production done each year during the first weekend in December. Choir members meet on Monday nights through November to work through a large portion of the pieces in the oratorio that Handel composed many years ago. This will be my seventh year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Uses for the Newspaper</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Mendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Staff of the Galion Inquirer Newspapers were never created to be saved forever, ask any archivist. Newspapers must be carefully preserved. Once the paper is read, articles of interest cut out, pictures and other interesting points pasted in scrapbooks or passed along whole to a fellow reader. it is meant to be reused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Mendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the October edition of Editor &#38; Publisher the state of print media was given a “stable” rating. Many of the same subjects as in past editions are hashed out and rehashed including online only vs. online plus print, how much to charge for ads on a start up news site, new print technology (brighter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Racism - The Real Elephant in the Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Mendell Inquirer Editor This newspaper has been called upon to deal with the issue of the racial slur uttered during an open meeting of the Galion City Council, Aug. 28. If we are to deal with this, then we must deal with the root issue. Galion is a racist town. Like it, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War Against Bugs</title>
		<link>http://galioninquirer.com/2012/07/war-bugs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2012 14:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Mendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The War Against Bugs By Rachel Mendell I know I’ll have to wage war again, but for now I have a small victory. The war against bugs in my house is ongoing: Spiders, ants, flies, Asian Beetles, yellow jackets, mosquitoes. But the most recent battle took an entire week to win. It started innocently enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Galion Racist Snicker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Galion Racist Snicker The gentleman stands up to speak during a city council meeting and tells everyone he thinks the city and its employees are doing a crappy job of fill in the blank. Tempers heat up and within five short minutes the room breaks out in colorful metaphors. Galion is better than that. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial</title>
		<link>http://galioninquirer.com/2012/04/editorial-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 01:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Mendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Mendell Ralph Mulberg was litmus paper. Wherever he was, you could tell the hearts of the people around him by what they said and did. I first saw Ralph when our family moved here in 1997 and I heard rumors about his history when I started writing for the paper in 2004. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial</title>
		<link>http://galioninquirer.com/2012/04/editorial-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Mendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On page 11 of our paper today you will find a small story about dirt. It seems that studies are now coming out in favor of dirt. Dirt is good for kids. There is a myriad of naturally occurring elements, including bacteria and minerals, that are good for kids, apparently giving their growing immune systems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate 4-H Week by joining up</title>
		<link>http://galioninquirer.com/2012/03/celebrate-4-h-week-by-joining-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Mendell   This week we have been celebrating 4H week and I would like to share my reasons for cheerleading the program.   Growing up in Phoenix, I had heard of 4-H, but had never known anyone in 4-H. I was raised Lutheran and was involved in a group called Lutheran Girl Pioneers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Editor&#039;s Note - March 6</title>
		<link>http://galioninquirer.com/2012/02/editors-note-march-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Mendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deadline for submitting letters to the editor dealing with March 6 issues and candidates is March 1. Thank you. rmendell@galioninquirer.com]]></description>
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		<title>Editorial</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rachel Mendell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attention all campaigning candidates! Once upon a time there was a reporter that would find out who all the candidates were from the Crawford County Board of Elections and call each one up for an interview. Alas, we are no longer staffed enough to do this. But, you can still get the word out in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ten Best Things about being an Editor</title>
		<link>http://galioninquirer.com/2012/01/the-ten-best-things-about-being-an-editor-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Mendell Inquirer Editor Last Sunday, my pastor was preaching on how man can, indeed, with God’s help, change his life. Near the beginning of the message he said this: “Dr. Paul S. Rees, in his writings, tells of a widely read newspaper reporter who gave his readers a clear, cold, look at his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ten Best Things about being an Editor</title>
		<link>http://galioninquirer.com/2011/12/the-ten-best-things-about-being-an-editor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rachel Mendell Inquirer Editor Last Sunday, my pastor was preaching on how man can, indeed, with God’s help, change his life. Near the beginning of the message he said this: “Dr. Paul S. Rees, in his writings, tells of a widely read newspaper reporter who gave his readers a clear, cold, look at his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Domestic War Horse</title>
		<link>http://galioninquirer.com/2011/10/the-domestic-war-horse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have the right … I write for the paper. I tape all public meetings. Over the last seven years I have learned my rights. They are your rights too. Sunshine – You have the right … There has been a lot of discussion lately about public meetings, public records, holding elected officials accountable, and [...]]]></description>
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