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    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.7/parched-lives-in-a-parched-land-a-review-of-the-ordinary-truth">        <title>Parched lives in a parched land: A review of the Ordinary Truth</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/45.7/parched-lives-in-a-parched-land-a-review-of-the-ordinary-truth</link>        <description>Jana Richman's novel of a Nevada family divided by conflict over water </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Michael Engelhard</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>The Ordinary Truth</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Jana Richman</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nevada</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2013-04-26T22:13:42Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>ecosanctuary</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Madeleine Pickens</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nevada</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>mustangs</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-11-07T18:36:33Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/rantcast-goodbye-listeners">        <title>Rantcast: Goodbye, listeners</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/rantcast-goodbye-listeners</link>        <description>The Rants from the Hill podcast comes to an end.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Stephanie Paige Ogburn</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Rants from the Hill</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Rants Podcast</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Nevada</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>rant podcast</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-11-06T16:42:09Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Audio</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Tea Party Nevada</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Republican ideology</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>taxes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nevada</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-10-30T19:00:15Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.18/as-goes-nevada-so-goes-the-nation">        <title>As goes Nevada, so goes the nation?</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.18/as-goes-nevada-so-goes-the-nation</link>        <description>As Nevada sinks deeper into decline, party politics give way to pragmatism.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Judith Lewis Mernit</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>2012 election</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Greg Brower</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Shelley Berkley</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>taxes</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Dean Heller</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Great Recession</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Nevada</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Sheila Leslie</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-11-09T15:25:21Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>rant podcast</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-09-28T22:44:11Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Audio</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Rants from the Hill</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-09-04T18:02:58Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Audio</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>Rants Podcast</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>rant podcast</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-08-07T16:58:16Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Audio</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>rant podcast</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-07-02T17:13:11Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Audio</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>balloon flight</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>rant podcast</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-06-01T16:55:50Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Audio</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/rantcast-the-silence-of-desert-greetings">        <title>Rantcast: The silence of desert greetings</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/rantcast-the-silence-of-desert-greetings</link>        <description>Michael Branch muses on Mary Austin, desert loners, and why the inhabitants in his arid part of western Nevada choose to limit their interactions to a few choice syllables. Rants from the Hill are Michael Branch's monthly musings on life in rural Nevada. </description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Stephanie Paige Ogburn</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>michael branch podcast</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>rant podcast</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-05-03T15:55:05Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>Audio</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/articles/rantcast-the-leprechaun-trap">        <title>Rantcast: The leprechaun trap</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/articles/rantcast-the-leprechaun-trap</link>        <description>Rants from the Hill are Michael Branch's monthly musings on life in rural Nevada. In this Rantcast, Michael Branch muses on holidays and creates a leprechaun trap with his two daughters.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Stephanie Paige Ogburn</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>michael branch podcast</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Southern Nevada Water Authority</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Las Vegas Valley Water District</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>electricity</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Hoover Dam</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Lake Mead</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>fountains</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Las Vegas water usage</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>car wash regulations</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Las Vegas</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>water cops</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Colorado River</dc:subject>        
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                    <dc:subject>Nevada</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>sprinkler watering</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2012-01-03T20:44:22Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
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                    <dc:subject>State budgets</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Economic crisis</dc:subject>                <dc:date>2010-04-19T17:18:49Z</dc:date>        <dc:type>News Article</dc:type>    </item>
    <item rdf:about="http://www.hcn.org/issues/373/17769">        <title>Wilderness, schmilderness</title>        <link>http://www.hcn.org/issues/373/17769</link>        <description>In Nevada, local counties spooked about the prospect of
wilderness within their boundaries derail public-lands bills that
could actually help their communities.</description>        <dc:publisher>No publisher</dc:publisher>        <dc:creator>Gordon Gregory</dc:creator>        <dc:rights></dc:rights>                    <dc:subject>Public lands</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Nevada</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Smith – Lyon</dc:subject>        
                    <dc:subject>Mineral and Esmeralda
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