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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>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:43:08 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Don't stop with this power line proposal]]></title>
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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>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:19:52 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[An immigration idea   worth exploring]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/editorials/ci_19890518?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday February 3, 2012    
Vermont lawmakers are talking about a guest worker program that would include state ID cards and registration of workers on farms and in other sectors in which the work is year-round. This idea is worth considering and could also point to a way out of the national immigration stalemate and an end to the bitter controversies that engenders.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 4 Feb 2012 08:59:07 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The war card]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday February 2, 2012    
Republicans have long been masters of playing the macho war card to intimidate Democrats, and Democrats more often than not have caved on these issues -- from early in the Cold War through the War on Terror and beyond.



The war card was played by passionately asserting that the Democrats had "lost China," as Richard Nixon and others alleged, were "soft on]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:48:24 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Don't count on teacher evaluations to solve much]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/editorials/ci_19762598?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday January 17, 2012    
A hue and cry for teacher evaluations springs up from time to time but never seems to go far, usually thwarted by the strength of most teacher unions and by the impossible nature of the task. More than likely, though, failure in this area is a good thing for public education.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:33:56 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Still a house of cards?]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/editorials/ci_19863965?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday January 31, 2012    
Three years after the U.S. housing market came crashing down and left millions underwater on their mortgages -- leading to millions of foreclosures and outright property abandonment -- some seemed to think a turnaround in the market was just around the corner.



That is, however, unlikely, if not delusional.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 1 Feb 2012 10:32:50 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Getting to the           character of Vermont]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday January 12, 2012    
It was heartening to see that a bill to create the Working Lands Enterprise investment, promotion, coordination and assistance initiative already has significant support in the Vermont Legislature



The legislation, developed over the past year by the Vermont Working Landscape Partnership, an offshoot of the Vermont Council on Rural Development, was formally]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:56:32 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Compromise? Really?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, argued for the re-balancing initiatives many have long sought - starting with higher taxes on those earning the most - and for a greater focus on promoting the middle class and a revival of the American Dream.

Those are worthy goals, both in terms of economic fairness and in the positive effect on the economy of more Americans with more money]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:31:38 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Loosening the grip             on pollution regs]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday December 26, 2011    
If anything illustrates the might of corporate interests it is the ability of large companies and their allies in Congress to stall, derail, defang or dismantle environmental regulations and protections.



A major case in point has involved the incredible amount of time it took for the Environmental Protection Agency to update rules to curb mercury and other toxic]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:26:32 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Armory looks like the inevitable choice]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday December 22, 2011    
Debate has continued much of the year in Hoosick, N.Y., over whether to retain the current town offices at the former National Guard Armory building in Hoosick Falls or to move elsewhere or build a new office complex.



This decision is now pressing because the state Guard has moved from the building and the town is expected to soon have to pay the expenses, which]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 7 Jan 2012 00:41:16 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Beanball politics]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday January 4, 2012    
Nothing illustrates the dysfunctional nature of Washington-level politics better than the tripe we are hearing over President Obama's decision to appoint Richard Cordray the new consumer watchdog, bypassing stubborn GOP opposition. 



Also fully in the spotlight are the tactics Republicans have employed in tying up Congress whenever they can't get their]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 5 Jan 2012 00:32:55 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[What the postal service means to the USA]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday December 15, 2011    
The U.S. Postal Service is awash in "red ink," according to news articles reporting on the proposed elimination of hundreds of regional mail centers, the closure of post offices across the country and other cutbacks to trim a budget deficit estimated to reach $14 billion by the end of the fiscal year.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:22:36 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Always something worth admiring about Vermont]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/editorials/ci_19643074?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday December 29, 2011    
Vermont is sometimes derided for its "socialist" tendencies, both by conservatives who live here and by residents of other, less-than-liberal states. But it isn't that easy to pin down Vermont or Vermonters to fit some pigeonhole in someone's imagination.



It is also true that the Green Mountain State stresses individualism and the idea of being able]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:01:49 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[OK, but what about the working class?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday December 13, 2011    
BothRepublicansand Democrats have discovered that the middle class in this country is hurting and has been in slow decline for decades since the post-World War II boom era.



President Obama, after being urged by liberal Democrats throughout his term to focus on those at the bottom of the economic pile, now is channeling Teddy Roosevelt and the progressive movements]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;Banner Editorial&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:34:57 EST]]></pubDate>
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