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	Who is Morgan Quitno Press?
		Morgan Quitno Press is an independent private research and publishing company located in Lawrence, Kansas.
		The first book published by Morgan Quitno was State Rankings in 1990.
		All publications are available from Morgan Quitno at P.O. Box 1656, Lawrence, KS 66044 or by calling 1-800-457-0742.
	www.morganquitno.com /aboutus.htm (908 words)

	LBReport.com
		Morgan Quitno Press, a Kansas-based publishing and research company, ranked U.S. cities based on each city’s officially reported rate for six basic crime categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft.
		Morgan Quitno says that while the methodology appears rather complicated, it results in fairer treatment because a city or metro area’s crime record is measured against the national average.
		Morgan Quitno's rankings show whether a city is above or below the average crime rate at the national rate in the six crimes reviewed.
	www.lbreport.com /news/mar01/safcit.htm (992 words)

	FSP News - April 2007 [ Free State Project - Liberty in Our Lifetime ]
		For the fourth consecutive year,.New Hampshire was selected by Morgan Quitno Press as #1.
		“New Hampshire does an outstanding job in a number of quality of life areas,” said Scott Morgan, President of Morgan Quitno Press.
		Morgan Quitno also just released its annual Healthiest State Award and New Hampshire came in 5th in this year's ranking.
	freestateproject.org /news/fspnews/apr2007 (1116 words)

	Morgan Quitno - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morgan Quitno Press is an independent research and publishing company based out of Lawrence, Kansas.
		They compile books with statistics of crime rates, health care, education, and other categories, ranking cities and states in the United States.
		Calcurate Crime Index based on Morgan Quitno's equasion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morgan_Quitno (345 words)

	The Clarion-Ledger: Mississippi's News Source
		According to the Morgan Quitno Press, Jackson in 2001 was the country's 10th most dangerous city among 342 municipalities included in its research.
		Morgan Quitno based its ranking on crime rates per 100,000 residents for six categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and auto theft.
		Amherst N.Y., was Morgan Quitno's most livable city and St. Louis was its most dangerous in 2001, the last year complete crime stats are available.
	www.clarionledger.com /news/0304/15/meric.html (517 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Nevada called most dangerous again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Morgan Quitno Press, a Lawrence, Kan.-based research group, this month announced that it had again determined that Nevada was the most dangerous state.
		Scott Morgan, president of Morgan Quitno, said Nevada had the second-highest car theft rate in the country and the fourth-highest murder rate.
		Morgan Quitno researchers failed to take into account the 20 percent population increase during the timeframe when compiling their numbers, Montoya said.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2005/mar/23/518494918.html (468 words)

	Pocatello Idaho State Journal: Area among safest in U.S. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Morgan Quitno Press, a research group in Lawrence, Kan., says the Pocatello metropolitan area is the 47th safest community in the United States.
		Morgan Quitno said the most dangerous city in the nation is Camden, N.J., and the most dangerous metro is the Detroit area.
		Morgan Quitno bases its rankings on the number of six types of crimes in a city/metro compared to its population.
	www.journalnet.com /articles/2005/11/25/news/local/news01.txt (1069 words)

	Texas Democratic Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Morgan Quitno was founded in 1989 by Scott Morgan, who served as the general counsel to Dole's presidential campaign the year before.
		Morgan's company publishes reference books that are loaded with statistics, rankings and other comparative data on cities and states across the United States.
		The Morgan Quitno survey isn't likely to prompt an exodus of Texans in Rider Trucks for places where the air is a bit cooler like St. Paul or Concord.
	www.txdemocrats.org /news/detail?id=540 (955 words)

	RENTNET: Find Apartments for Rent
		Founded in 1989, Lawrence, KS-based Morgan Quinto Press is an independent private research and publishing company specializing in comparing states and cities in a variety of subject areas based on numerous factors.
		When Morgan Quitno looked at infant mortality rates, health insurance coverage rates, per capita health care expenditures, access to primary medical care, childhood immunization rates, adult smoking rates and other health factors, New Hampshire took the No. 1 spot and Mississippi again was No. 50.
		When Morgan Quitno took a look at murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary and theft, many of the same states at the top and bottom in the livability and health rankings were similarly ranked for crime.
	www.rentnet.com /apartments/fyp/reading_room/quality_life/bwplacestolive_RT.jhtml (804 words)

	Old Gold and Black > 1.31.02 > Study: W-S 39th most violent city (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A recent study conducted by Morgan Quitno Press found that Winston-Salem was the 39th most dangerous city nationwide, based on the most recently released crime data for 2000.
		"We calculated the crime rate using 185,776 as the population of Winston-Salem in 2000, unlike the Morgan Quitno study, which stated that the city’s population in the same year was 176,841," she said.
		According to Thomas, the discrepancies between the reported populations used in the three studies are due to the fact that Morgan Quitno figured the estimated population for 2000 from the 1990 Census rather more current estimates of the 2000 population.
	ogb.wfu.edu /issue/2002/01.31/news/winston.violence.asp (749 words)

	Who is Morgan Quitno Press?
		Morgan Quitno Press is an independent private research and publishing company located in Lawrence, Kansas.
		Morgan Quitno currently publishes six primary rankings reference books: State Rankings, Health Care State Rankings, Crime State Rankings, Education State Rankings, State Trends and City Crime Rankings.
		All publications are available from Morgan Quitno at P.O. Box 1656, Lawrence, KS 66044 or by calling 1-800-457-0742.
	www.morganquinto.com /aboutus.htm (921 words)

	JS Online: Go ahead and make your case for the stupidest state
		So I did a little research into this "Morgan Quitno Press," which, as you may know, can be rearranged to spell "Squirts on a Porn Gem." It seems that this outfit has made a reputation for itself by ranking states according to Livability, Safety, Average Butt Size, etc.
		"Morgan Quitno Press" declared that the Safest State - also for six years in a row - was North Dakota.
		But "Morgan Quitno Press" is way off base with its state intelligence rankings.
	www.jsonline.com /lifestyle/advice/oct02/88969.asp?format=print (779 words)

	Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals
		For the fifteenth year, Morgan Quitno Press has ranked American states on their performance as "most livable." For the second year in a row, New Hampshire is ranked the nation's "most livable" state.
		When Morgan Quitno began releasing its national rankings in 1991, Louisiana was ranked the least livable state.
		One of the most startling rankings highlighted by Morgan Quitno is Louisiana's distinction as the state with the highest state prisoner incarceration rate -- nearly double the national average -- and this without the accompanying nation-leading crime rate.
	www.dhh.state.la.us /medialibrary.asp?Detail=206 (512 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: LV area ranked 8th most dangerous (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The report, released by Morgan Quitno Press, a Kansas research and publishing firm, is based on 2003 FBI statistics for murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and car theft.
		Morgan Quitno, which also conducts studies on the intelligence, health and livability of states, looks at each metropolitan area's rates and then ranks the area based on how it stacks up against the national rates.
		The scores given in this and last year's rankings were calculated using the same methodology and are comparable, but Morgan Quitno cautioned comparisons in rankings because 16 cities,are in this year's survey that were not considered last year.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2004/nov/22/517866454.html (581 words)

	Realty Times: Morgan Quitno Says Vermont, Minnesota Top States
		Morgan Quitno Press, the Lawrence KS researcher and publisher of statistics that give the status of the nation's states and their cities in several categories, on April 25 released their latest "Safest and Most Dangerous States," "Healthiest States," and "Most Livable States."
		Vermont was also back for the third year as the Morgan Quitno's healthiest state, followed by New Hampshire, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota.
		To determine a state's livability, Morgan Quitno averaged a 1 to 50 score for 43 factors, including everything from crime rates, costs of living, incomes and home ownership rates to low birth weight births, per capita number of books in libraries, sunny days and hazardous waste sites.
	realtytimes.com /printrtpages/20030501_topstates.htm (648 words)

	Report ranks State College 9th safest metropolitan area in U.S.
		Despite the increase in the number of reported sexual assaults this year, last year's crime statistics led the State College metropolitan area to be ranked the ninth safest in the country and the safest in Pennsylvania.
		Morgan said the Office of Management and Budget sets boundaries for the metropolitan statistical areas about every 10 years.
		The information was reported in Morgan Quitno's 10th Annual America's Safest (and Most Dangerous) Cities and printed in its 10th edition of City Crime Rankings.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2003/12/12-02-03tdc/12-02-03dnews-04.asp (619 words)

	phoenixnewtimes.com \| Arts & Entertainment \| Smart AZ the Rest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Horne wants us to ignore the report because Morgan Quitno, a Kansas-based publisher of reference books and monthly reports that compare states and cities in different subject areas, uses lousy criteria.
		Arizona's towering standards are the reason most of its students are wearing a categorical dunce cap, at least as far as Morgan Quitno is concerned.
		Arizona may be the 48th smartest state, and (according to another recent Morgan Quitno list) the third "Most Dangerous State" in the Union, but we did rank 19th on the publisher's "Most Improved States" list.
	www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/2004-11-04/culture/speakeasy.html (636 words)

	CourierPostOnline - South Jersey's Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Scott Morgan, one of the founders of Morgan Quitno, said his report is objective, looking at the number of crimes committed and comparing them with the population.
		Last month, Sarubbi sent Morgan a letter asking him to acknowledge Camden's recent turnaround when the rankings are released, which Morgan did in a press release that accompanied the report.
		At the least, when Morgan Quitno releases its report next fall, outgoing Camden Police chief Edwin J. Figueroa and Sarubbi expect the city to be in the middle or bottom of the rankings.
	www.courierpostonline.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051121/NEWS01/511210339/1006 (810 words)

	St. Louis Tops Dangerous City List - CBS News
		According to the ranking by Lawrence, Kan.-based Morgan Quitno Press, Flint is the fourth most dangerous among cities with populations between 100,000 and 499,999, while Sterling Heights is the fifth-safest.
		Using FBI crime figures for 2001, Morgan Quitno Press declared Amherst, N.Y., America's safest city for the third year in a row, followed by Brick Township, N.J.; Newton, Mass.; and the California communities of Thousand Oaks and Sunnyvale.
		For its methodology, Morgan Quitno plugged crime rates for the six categories per 100,000 population into a formula measuring how a certain city or metropolitan area compared to the national average for a given category.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/12/06/national/main532163.shtml (755 words)

	MaineScience - Happenings - News
		The Smartest State Award is one of five designations announced annually by Morgan Quitno Press.
		Each award or designation is based on data from annual Morgan Quitno reference publications.
		Additional information about the first annual Smartest State Award, including rankings for all 50 states, a list of factors used to determine the results and an explanation of methodology, is available directly from the Morgan Quitno Press Web site.
	www.state.me.us /mstf/htdocs/news/2002/10h_smartest_states.html (350 words)

	Jackson Free Press \| [Talk] Gettin' Safer
		Earlier this year, Morgan Quitno announced that Mississippi as a whole is the 14th most dangerous state, reflecting a steady slide from its ranking as the 18th safest state in 1994.
		On another of Morgan Quitno’s scales, Mississippi is also the "least livable state," where we have placed since 1999.
		Stringfellow wrote last spring about Morgan Quitno, which helped stir this hysterical pot, especially when that column was then picked up by politicians for their campaigns (but claiming the numbers were for 2002, not 2001).
	www.jacksonfreepress.com /comments.php?id=2082_0_4_0_C (8253 words)

	Living in Ohio May Not Be Too 'Smart' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		These are the findings of the Education State Rankings, a survey by Morgan Quitno Press of hundreds of public school systems in all 50 states.
		The Smartest State Award is one of six designations announced annually by Morgan Quitno Press.
		Morgan Quitno Press is an independent private research and publishing company founded in 1989.
	www.business-journal.com /SmartStates04.asp (371 words)

	The Signal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The rankings of safest and most dangerous cities are compiled by the Morgan Quitno Press, which receives its information from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports.
		Morgan Quitno’s 12th annual America’s Safest (and Most Dangerous) Cities rankings are used by a variety of different organizations.
		Morgan, who has been compiling the data for 15 years, has seen a trend that indicates crime is decreasing.
	www.the-signal.com /News/ViewStory.asp?storyID=8348 (451 words)

	Safest City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The results of the ninth annual Safest City Award, which compares crime in 342 cities, were announced today by Morgan Quitno Press, a Lawrence, Kansas-based publishing and research company.
		The Morgan Quitno Safest City Award is based on a city’s rate for six basic crime categories: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary and motor vehicle theft.
		The Safest City and Metropolitan Area rankings are one of five Morgan Quitno Awards announced annually by the publishing company.
	www.amherst.ny.us /police/safestcity.htm (501 words)

	12/21/01: Three-peat! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Morgan Quitno uses FBI (news - web sites) statistics in working out its safety ratings.
		The city's crime rates in all categories exceed national averages, according to Morgan Quitno's analysis.
		The awards are the basis for the eighth edition of Morgan Quitno's ``City Crime Rankings.'' Like Money Magazine's annual ''Best Places To Live'' issue, the book is used primarily by people thinking of relocating who want an idea of a city or area's quality of life, said Scott Morgan, Morgan Quitno's president.
	www.mrcranky.com /movies/joesomebody/23.html (440 words)

	PEACE PARTY - Stereotype of the Month contest
		An outfit calling itself "Morgan Quitno Press" recently ranked the 50 United States in order of intelligence, and I am TICKED OFF.
		Has "Morgan Quitno Press" ever actually BEEN in Minnesota during the winter months (September-June) when you begin your day by putting in 30 minutes with an ice scraper?
		"Morgan Quitno Press" declared that the Safest State — also for six years in a row — was North Dakota.
	www.bluecorncomics.com /stype2a9.htm (656 words)

	morgan quitno - Web Links
		In a survey released by Kansas research firm, Morgan Quitno, American states that chose not to reelect George W. Bush, (those notorious "blue" states), make up eight of the top ten spots within a...
		A survey by Morgan Quitno Press placed the town at number 21 out of 369 U.S. cities.
		Das Forschungsinstitut Morgan Quitno Press legte den Jahresbericht zum neunten Mal vor.
	www.product-launch.co.uk /search.php?ass=1237&qry=morgan+quitno (331 words)

	Hear The Issues - Political Articles and Commentary: 2004 Election Results - The IQ / Intelligence Factor
		The two sets of data are a yearly education study conducted by Morgan Quitno Press, and an independent study conducted by a professor of psychology at Virginia Tech.
		According to the Morgan Quitno organization, Smartest State designation is awarded based on 21 factors chosen from Morgan Quitno’s annual reference book, Education State Rankings, 2004-2005.
		To calculate the Smartest State rankings, the 21 factors were divided into two groups: those that are “negative” for which a high ranking would be considered bad for a state, and those that are “positive” for which a high ranking would be considered good.
	www.heartheissues.com /e2004-6-intelligenceiq.html (699 words)

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