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         <title><![CDATA[On Johnson Controls site, it's time for a change]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday February 10, 2012    
The question of whether zoning for the former Johnson Controls site in Bennington should be changed from industrial use to commercial to allow a retail facility has been batted back and forth among Select Board members, town planners and area development officials for years, and the basic arguments from both sides have changed little.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;Banner Editorial&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:43:08 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Five bells, four times over]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday February 10, 2012    
Don Keelan



Vermontis well known for its plethora of nonprofit organizations and the countless volunteers who carry out the mission of such organizations. It is also not unusual to see volunteers recognized for their years of service. 



Vermont has another type of nonprofit institution that has at its core, significant numbers of volunteers -- the volunteer fire]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:49:07 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[A little more heat]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday February 10, 2012    
Michael Reagan



It seems to me that what is missing in the top two contenders for the Republican presidential nomination is passion.



While Ron Paul speaks with passion of the Federal Reserve and Rick Santorum speaks with passion about life, Newt Gingrich speaks passionately mostly about Mitt Romney; and Mitt, it seems, merely speaks in sound bites.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:20:12 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Embracing &lsquo;Enough']]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday February 10, 2012    
David Sirota



Of all the no-no's in contemporary America -- and there are many -- none has proven more taboo than the ancient doctrine of  dayenu. Translated from the original Hebrew, the word roughly means "It would have been enough." 



The principle is that a certain amount of a finite resource should satisfy even the gluttons among us.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:14:25 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Don't stop with this power line proposal]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/opinion/ci_19932671?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday February 9, 2012    
A Vermont Senate committee is discussing the advisability of the state buying a controlling interest in the high tension power lines here as part of a proposed merger of Green Mountain Power and Central Vermont Public Service under Montreal-based Gaz Metro.



That could put control of Vermont's central power structures under a Canadian firm, which has raised]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;Banner Editorial&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:19:52 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Between oak and beech]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday February 9, 2012    
Chuck Wooster



What do you think, Chuck, oak or beech?" This was my forester asking, and my immediate response was not to say anything because I was gasping for air after pursuing him up a rocky hillside.  Also, I suspected it was a question with no easy answer.



We were cruising our woodlot this past fall in preparation for drawing up a new forest management]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 9 Feb 2012 22:39:25 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Giants among men]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday February 9, 2012    
Telly Halkias



If anyone ever wondered what d&eacute;j&agrave; vu is like, they should look to last Sunday&rsquo;s Super Bowl. The eerie playoff buildup to the game, as well as the contest itself, unfolded with similarities to the first matchup of the New York Giants and the New England Patriots, four years ago.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 9 Feb 2012 22:39:08 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Can Romney move to the center]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/opinion/ci_19924083?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday February 8, 2012    
Joe Gandelman



Barring some big political development that again upends the conventional wisdom, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney still seems poised to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Here in the center of America newspapers are filled with stories about the Republican political nomination battle.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:34:44 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Letters: A love for cats]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday February 8, 2012    
Do you love animals?



I have had the most wonderful and rewarding volunteer job for the past 10 years that I need to pass on to someone else now. I have been a foster home for feral and shy cats from the Second Chance Animal Center. 



Cats that fail at the shelter because they do not trust humans, or are extremely shy, come to me for rehabilitation.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:34:41 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Making sense of  health reform]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday February 8, 2012    
Steve Kimbell 



Recent critical editorials about Vermont&rsquo;s health reform plan are welcome. Perhaps they will spur the Vermonters affected, particularly small business owners and their employees, to take a closer look at the real opportunities available to them as we implement the federal and state health reform laws.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:34:16 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[A toy for Lena]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday February 8, 2012    
Harriette Leidich



Some time ago I was doing my grocery shopping at one of the supermarkets when I heard a little voice say, "Mama, it&rsquo;s Harriette over there." I looked for the voice and sure enough it was my little friend Lena. 



She was sitting in one of those big grocery carts surrounded by packages, cans and produce.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:34:15 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The GOP soap opera]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday February 7, 2012    
Will Durst



It&rsquo;s been more exciting than a zip-line over crocodile-infested streams watching the Republican reality TV show currently playing across the nation. Specifically talking about their grueling marathon gladiator contest where the last person voted off the island becomes Red American Idol and wins the opportunity to oppose Barack Obama in the grudge]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 7 Feb 2012 22:41:00 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Contraception isn&rsquo;t          all that political]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday February 7, 2012    
You know when the right wing attack machine gets behind an offensive against the Obama administration the issue stands a 50-50 chance of being entirely political, despite all the usual sound an fury.



This week there is "Catholic outrage," to quote the usual suspects, over a decision by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that, under the national]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 7 Feb 2012 22:39:11 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Surely they jest]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday February 7, 2012    
Peter Funt



You can&rsquo;t make this stuff up," Johnny Carson used to say when truth trumped fiction in one of his monologues. The line is perfect for the current GOP presidential campaign, where the candidates&rsquo; seemingly serious pronouncements leave joke writers with little to add.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 7 Feb 2012 22:39:05 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Marketing declares culture war winners]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday February 7, 2012    
Tina Dupuy



Gen X was popularized as an advertising term. Marketers used the label to describe young people of the late 1980s, and the focus was on how to sell goods to the MTV generation.



Advertisements at that time, just as one example, started to feature unmarried couples to appeal to this group of consumers.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 7 Feb 2012 22:38:45 EST]]></pubDate>
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