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I've been trying, with little success, to find a property management company in Central Kansas that maintains farm property for absentee lessors. Now that my mother has moved and my uncle has passed away, there's really no one around to check on my mother's farmland. I'm surprised by how little I'm finding on the Internet, but I have a feeling that even though the most rural areas of Kansas have ISPs nowadays, a lot of business is still solicited the old-fashioned way: through (printed) yellow pages, word of mouth, and ads in the local newspapers. Most of the property management companies that have any kind of online presence are in the Kansas City area--too far (and probably too expensive) for my mother's farmland. I suppose I could e-mail area libraries and ask if they have anything in their phone books that I'm not finding online.
Changing the subject, below are the last 20 books I finished reading.
1. Publicity for Nonprofits: Generating Media Exposure That Leads to Awareness, Growth, and Contributions by Sandra Beckwith
2. Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
3. The Essential Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
4. Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance by Noam Chomsky
5. Occupy by Noam Chomsky
6. What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage by Norman G. Finkelstein
7. The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, and U.S. Policy in the Congo Crisis by David N. Gibbs
8. Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles
9. Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land by Amira Hass
10. Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions by Diana Johnstone
11. William S. Burroughs vs. the Qur'an by Michael Muhammad Knight
12. Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
13. Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn: A Hitchhiker's Adventures in the New Iran by Jamie Maslin
14. Billionaires' Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality by linda_mcquaig and Neil Brooks
15. The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality by Chris Mooney
16. The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West
17. The Collapse of American Criminal Justice by William J. Stuntz
18. Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism by Richard Wolff and David Barsamian
19. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism by Sheldon S. Wolin
20. Howard Zinn on Democratic Education by Howard Zinn
Changing the subject, below are the last 20 books I finished reading.
1. Publicity for Nonprofits: Generating Media Exposure That Leads to Awareness, Growth, and Contributions by Sandra Beckwith
2. Dawn by Octavia E. Butler
3. The Essential Chomsky by Noam Chomsky
4. Making the Future: Occupations, Interventions, Empire and Resistance by Noam Chomsky
5. Occupy by Noam Chomsky
6. What Gandhi Says: About Nonviolence, Resistance and Courage by Norman G. Finkelstein
7. The Political Economy of Third World Intervention: Mines, Money, and U.S. Policy in the Congo Crisis by David N. Gibbs
8. Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles
9. Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land by Amira Hass
10. Fools' Crusade: Yugoslavia, NATO, and Western Delusions by Diana Johnstone
11. William S. Burroughs vs. the Qur'an by Michael Muhammad Knight
12. Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power by Rachel Maddow
13. Iranian Rappers and Persian Porn: A Hitchhiker's Adventures in the New Iran by Jamie Maslin
14. Billionaires' Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality by linda_mcquaig and Neil Brooks
15. The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Deny Science--and Reality by Chris Mooney
16. The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West
17. The Collapse of American Criminal Justice by William J. Stuntz
18. Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism by Richard Wolff and David Barsamian
19. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism by Sheldon S. Wolin
20. Howard Zinn on Democratic Education by Howard Zinn