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		<title>Prairie Pulse - a blog with Prairie Business editor Ryan Schuster</title>
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			<title>What makes a good company?</title>
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							<![CDATA[   Corporate Responsibility Officer just released its annual listing of the top 100 best corporate citizens, a ranking of large U.S.]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:24:00 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>What do you think of our new look?</title>
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							<![CDATA[   The first issue of the new redesigned Prairie Business magazine has been mailed out.]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:36:00 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>How can rural communities attract business growth?</title>
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							<![CDATA[   What can smaller communities do to stand out in economic development? Many larger companies and bigger factories tend to avoid rural areas, small towns and geographically isolated area.]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:00:00 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>Do incentives help economic development?</title>
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							<![CDATA[   Aggressive use of economic development inducements ranging from temporary property tax exemptions or reductions to tax increment financing and loan pool programs is becoming more common, escalating the national economic development arms race.]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:34:00 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>Blue Cross Blue Shield clarifies its position on health care reform</title>
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							<![CDATA[    Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota has released a statement (text included below) to explain its stance on potential health care reform in response to criticism and to explain how potential health care reform being debated in Congress would affect North Dakota's largest insurance company (as well as other insurance companies).]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:01:00 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>American Airlines adding Chicago service to Fargo, Sioux Falls</title>
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							<![CDATA[   American Airlines will be adding direct flights from Fargo and Sioux Falls to and from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport starting next spring.]]>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:58:00 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>Addicted to e-mail</title>
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							<![CDATA[   OK, I admit it.]]>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:36:00 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>Fargo ranked nation&apos;s 15th best college town</title>
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							<![CDATA[   A new report by the American Institute for Economic Research ranked Fargo as the 15th-best college town among cities of 250,000 or less residents in terms of job opportunities for students and recent college graduates, according to a Fargo Forum story.]]>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:20:00 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>Bismarck featured in BusinessWeek</title>
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							<![CDATA[   The strength of the Bismarck economy has been featured in an article posted to the BusinessWeek website last night.]]>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:08:00 CST</pubDate>
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			<title>5 facts from IRS on the home office deduction</title>
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							<![CDATA[From the IRS: Five Facts about the Home Office Deduction    With technology making it easier than ever for people to operate a business out of their house, many taxpayers, entrepreneurs and small business people may be able to take a home office deduction when filing their 2009 federal tax return next year.]]>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:33:00 CST</pubDate>
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