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Before I discuss the importance of driving dynamics and the utter lack thereof in the Kia Rondo, I must share a discovery. I realized on one of my links that this car is being marketed to my gay brethren. The advertising is about as subtle as Harvey Firestein. 

As if niche marketing can overcome the utter lack of driving dynamics that plauge this ride.  

There's no place in town where you can have more fun for less money tonight (Friday) and tomorrow than at the Northeast Accordion Festival, hosted by Kramarczuk's Restaurant and Bakery, 215 Hennepin Ave.

Prentice had changed so much in twenty years. You could stop by the little local historical society at the County Fairgrounds and look at photographs of the way the town used to be, but pretty much every striking thing you would encounter on the walls there had been knocked down –the old courthouse with the ornate cupola, the Prairie School bank downtown, and the beautiful turn-of-the-century railroad depot: all gone—and the place was now just another anonymous town comprised of nothing but squat, rundown neighborhoods surrounded