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		<title>Death knell, part 2</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/death-knell-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I left before the FNSB Assembly had voted &#8212; in fact, at least an hour before public testimony had finished &#8212; but word has it that Ordinance 2011-32, a soft-pedaled version of a zoning ordinance defeated 4-4 a few months ago, was defeated by a vote of 6 to 3.  Voting against were Natalie Howard, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=688&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The death knell of downtown&#8217;s revitalization?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am angry and heartbroken tonight. By a 4-4 vote, the Borough Assembly just failed to pass Ordinance 2010-09, which would have created two new zoning types: a &#8220;retail hot spot&#8221; and a &#8220;supporting commercial district&#8221;.  These new zones &#8212; which would have been merely codified, not even applied &#8212; were one of the key [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=680&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ten important places</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Genius loci]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a nice way to measure your neighborhood: Do you have ten interesting places? I&#8217;ve just begun The Great Neighborhood Book: A Do-it-Yourself Guide to Placemaking by Jay Walljasper &#8212; a concise and uplifting guide to making a neighborhood not only worth living in, but worth envying.  (I have added it to my &#8220;Further reading&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=665&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Getting out the vote&#8221; and public discourse</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/getting-out-the-vote-and-public-discourse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:44:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civic participation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow (Tuesday, October 6) is a day of local elections in the Fairbanks North Star Borough.  I&#8217;ve done a little work on one campaign, enough to make me sad for the state of electoral politics. I spent one evening and one morning recently (in separate weeks) working for a particular local candidate.  (I&#8217;ll say that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=659&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes and the dread &#8220;social engineering&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently had a discussion on the News-Miner site over the proper application of taxes.  My opinion seemed to raise some people&#8217;s ire, though I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s that radical: taxes can be, should be, and in fact already are being used to direct social behavior. Somebody wrote a letter to the editor condemning the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=640&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For want of a nail&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/for-want-of-a-nail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Downtowns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corrected 20 August 2009 Readers of today&#8217;s News-Miner will already know: the FMATS Policy Committee scrapped the idea of a roundabout at the north end of Cushman St. and voted to plan for one-way traffic on the bridges south of the intersection.  I fear that their decisions have just driven a nail into the coffin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=627&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How &#8220;the government&#8221; spends money better than I can</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/how-the-government-spends-money-better-than-i-can/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civic participation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s challenge: Can you think of five ways that government spends money better than you could? There is an oft-used conservative talking point &#8212; or rhetorical flourish &#8212; that we (the &#8220;taxpayers&#8221;) know how to spend our money better than &#8220;the government&#8221;.  It is a talking point that masks selfishness and reeks of anti-civicism, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=615&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Questions for local candidates: your input needed</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/questions-for-local-candidates-your-input-needed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This October 9, we&#8217;ll elect a new mayor of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, three members of the Borough Assembly (seats A, F, and G), and two members of the Fairbanks City Council (seats A and B) .  I&#8217;d like to make some endorsements &#8212; but I&#8217;ll need your help, first. It may be naïvely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=593&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Red Couch opens; Gambardella&#8217;s closes (for breakfast)</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/red-couch-opens-gambardellas-closes-for-breakfast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Downtowns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food and eating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write this from the latest treasure to open downtown: Red Couch Trading Post, where I write on my laptop while enjoying a blueberry cream-cheese cake, a cinnamon pull-apart (a small monkey bread), and a coffee. Red Couch is part cafe, part bakery, part deli, and part convenience store. They have a simple deli counter, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=585&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New local slaughterhouse: Tanana Valley Meats opens</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/new-local-slaughterhouse-tanana-valley-meats-opens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food and eating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local businesses]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Good news, locavores: according to an article in Tuesday&#8217;s News-Miner, we now have another option to buy meat from locally raised and slaughtered animals.  Tanana Valley Meats has been certified by the USDA to slaughter cattle and hogs, and they will start butchering and retail sales immediately, in the site once operated by B-Y Farms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=579&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gambardella&#8217;s does breakfast!</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/gambardellas-does-breakfast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 20:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy cats! Gambardella&#8217;s is now doing breakfast, and it&#8217;s fantastic! It was just luck that I discovered it, too: I&#8217;d had to walk to an ATM before traveling, and my walk back took me along Second Avenue past this classic Fairbanks restaurant.  Their door was open, and they&#8217;d put out an &#8220;Open&#8221; sign.  I stopped [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=569&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lewis Feldstein lecture: a master speaks on social capital</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/lewis-feldstein-lecture-a-master-speaks-on-social-capital/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 07:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday night (May 12) saw an astounding lecture on social capital: Lewis Feldstein, president of the New Hampsire Charitable Foundation and co-author (with Robert Putnam) of Better Together: Restoring the American Community, spoke at Schaible Auditorium on the topic &#8220;Better Together: Community Leadership and Social Capital&#8221;. The lecture, part of UAF&#8217;s Northern Leadership Center Lecture [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=542&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Butts and more butts: clean-up day, 2009</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/butts-and-more-butts-clean-up-day-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went out this Saturday morning with my daughter for Cleanup Day. We decided to work on our immediate neighborhood rather than on one of the main streets.  Our neighborhood needed it badly. (For those not in Fairbanks, Cleanup Day is an annual ritual here, where hundreds &#8212; if not thousands &#8212; of Fairbanksans &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=526&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Watershed School: local interest vs. local access</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/the-watershed-school-local-interest-vs-local-access/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 21:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may be heading to some kind of Pedestrian Hell: I have enrolled my daughter, a first-grader-to-be, in a charter school. Actually, The Watershed School, which opens this fall, has a component that should make pedestrian-types long to send their kids there: it focuses on &#8220;place-based&#8221; education, in which students focus on their local communities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=508&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life is a street, not a highway</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/life-is-a-street-not-a-highway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Driving]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughters and I just watched a movie whose soundtrack featured the Tom Cochrane song &#8220;Life is a Highway&#8221;.  What an odious, and sadly telling, metaphor. The complete lyrics aren&#8217;t of interest to me, just that metaphor.  What does it mean that life is (or should be) a highway?  What are the salient characteristics of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=501&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vision Fairbanks lives to fight another day &#8212; but just barely</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/vision-fairbanks-lives-to-fight-another-day-but-just-barely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick news flash, because I&#8217;m tired: Jerry Cleworth&#8217;s resolution, which I think would have kneecapped the downtown revitalization effort,  failed &#8212; though only through a tie-breaking vote by the mayor.  The final vote: For, Cleworth, Roberts, and Stiver; Against, Bratcher, Gatewood, Eberhart, and Mayor Strle.  (News-Miner story here.) As I posted Saturday, City Councilman [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=487&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Councilman Cleworth deep-six Vision Fairbanks?</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/will-councilman-cleworth-deep-six-vision-fairbanks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody reading today&#8217;s (Saturday&#8217;s) News Miner knows that Jerry Cleworth of the Fairbanks City Council has proposed a resolution that would halt Cushman&#8217;s conversion into a two-way street.  While his goal of saving money is admirable, the proposal is short-sighted and would deal a major blow to the revitalization of downtown. You can help downtown [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=477&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The perils and the seduction of self-sorting</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/the-perils-and-the-seduction-of-self-sorting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just finished a book that leaves me troubled over the future of civic engagement in the United States &#8212; and puzzled over whether it&#8217;s even worth worrying about. Bill Bishop&#8217;s book The Big Sort: How the Clustering of Like-minded America is Tearing Us Apart (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008) has one central thesis: since the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=447&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco reflections (part two)</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/01/11/san-francisco-reflections-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post continues &#8220;San Francisco reflections (part one)&#8220;. I&#8217;d like to show a few of my photos of San Francisco, and to discuss some relevant points about city planning and public spaces. Perhaps the first thing is a peculiar attitude among many Fairbanksans: that living in close proximity to others is somehow undignified.  I say: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=400&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco reflections (part one)</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/san-francisco-reflections-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City planning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wrapped up a vacation to San Francisco, where a friend from high school joined me to attend another friend&#8217;s wedding. We arranged to have an extra day on either side, so we could do a little vacationing in the city.  Our approach to sightseeing highlights two contrasting approaches to tourism &#8212; and to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=382&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Au revoir, Samson</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/au-revoir-samson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the good fortune a couple of Fridays  ago (Dec. 12) to shop at Samson Hardware on what was certainly its last day in its current location, and what may be its last day ever.  I witnessed the end of 104 years of Fairbanks history. My visit there was entirely accidental: I needed something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=358&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Third place&#8221; review: Big Daddy&#8217;s BBQ</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/third-place-review-big-daddys-bbq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 02:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t do restaurant reviews, per se: they&#8217;re usually largely focused on the quality of the food, and this is not a &#8220;food&#8221; blog.  However, this is a &#8220;public space&#8221; blog, so I may, from time to time, review retail establishments (including food service) to discuss how they do at creating good meeting places. Big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=313&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fairbanks Pedestrian on Energy-Wise (Fairbanks AM radio)</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/fairbanks-pedestrian-on-energy-wise-fairbanks-am-radio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:10:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a week ago, I got my first radio interview: I talked for 20 minutes with Marielle Smith, the producer of Energy-Wise.  The short segment played Monday morning on Newsradio 970 KFBX (and perhaps the other local Clear Channel stations).  We covered: Our denied pedestrian right; The social aspects of pedestrian-friendly neighborhoods and cities; The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=346&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking gratitude</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/thinking-gratitude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a very happy dinner party on &#8220;Thanksgiving Eve&#8221;, each of us was invited in turn to name something he or she was grateful for.  It would have been rude of me to hog the floor for the sake of being thorough, so I kept mine fairly brief.  I&#8217;m going to expand on it here. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=316&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crowding &#8212; sweet, sweet crowding</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/crowding-sweet-sweet-crowding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the pleasures I&#8217;ve had since resuming bus ridership a couple of weeks ago is seeing the buses so full. Last winter, I took the bus to work every day.  Usually, there were no more than five people on the bus at any one time, including me and the driver.  On the ride home, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=306&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;and the benefits of easy community-forming</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/and-the-benefits-of-easy-community-forming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/?p=293</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago, I voiced a little suspicion about the many new &#8220;social software&#8221; devices and applications that make forming connections so easy.  Today I want to amend that. I&#8217;m reading Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (New York: Penguin, 2008), an exploration of the ways new technology [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=293&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The danger of easy community-forming</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/the-danger-of-easy-community-forming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/?p=275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It finally got cold enough in Fairbanks &#8212; three degrees Fahrenheit this morning &#8212; that I decided to forego riding my bike to work and to take the bus instead. Truth be told, I don&#8217;t mind the cold or the dark so much as all the damned dressing and undressing. Lazy, I guess. Riding the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=275&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lower standards and half-baked ideas</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/lower-standards-and-half-baked-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I need to lower my standards enough to let out a few half-baked ideas. If you read my last post (on the crime rate in Fairbanks), you may have left with the feeling that it was not the most thorough piece of argumentation you&#8217;d ever read.  Frank Cox called it a &#8220;rough and ready first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=267&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why crime in the city?</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/why-crime-in-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 23:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Central cities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, in a comment to my post &#8220;Home insecurity system&#8220;, Brian wrote, On the other hand, I haven’t had a shooting in my neighborhood in the ‘burbs….. ever. You have shootings, assaults, and assorted nonsense in yours THAT NEVER EVEN MAKES THE NEWSPAPER. Would you go to Weeks Field after dark, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=251&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home insecurity system</title>
		<link>http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/home-insecurity-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Adasiak</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic architecture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com/?p=236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife, my daughters, and I went a couple of weekends ago to a birthday party for another friend&#8217;s child &#8212; and it&#8217;s got me all down about the place where I live. We live in the upper floor of a two-story house downtown, renting out the basement apartment.  Not counting our deck or the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fairbankspedestrian.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1175704&amp;post=236&amp;subd=fairbankspedestrian&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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