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         <title><![CDATA[Hold your noses, vote]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday March 15, 2010    
We are not overwhelmed fans of the health care reform proposal edging toward final votes in the House and Senate. But this would represent an important step toward insuring that every American has access to affordable health care, and that's the bottom line.



The argument that we -- that is, Americans -- couldn't pay for such a comprehensive system is]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:05:08 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Dr. Dean's prescription  for health reform]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday February 23, 2010    
As President Obama struggles to salvage health care reform after months of drift while Republicans tore apart his party's plans, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean is clearly laying out what the Democrats should have focused on and what still might be possible on reform.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:04:09 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Bipartisan boogie]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday March 1, 2010    
As we have seen, bipartisanship rarely resolves a serious impasse. It merely postpones the day of reckoning, because to get to a true resolution one philosophy or overarching idea has to emerge. The difference cannot be split.



Baby steps in legislation are adequate for smaller questions on federal, state and local levels, but that won't resolve an issue like how]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:03:45 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Shake off the cabin fever]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/editorials/ci_14667164?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday March 12, 2010    
T he winter&rsquo;s late-arriving snow is melting. The breezes start to blow warmer, and early flowers begin to poke their heads out of the ground. The pessimistic groundhog has been thwarted at last -- spring is coming, and it&rsquo;s time to shake off the cabin fever induced by months of gloomy gray days, and get out of the house.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:49:01 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The real spring]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday March 10, 2010    
It&rsquo;s getting to be springtime here in the Northeast. The snow is melting (what we had); the temperatures are getting ever-so-slightly warmer and the days are getting longer and longer.



But how can you tell that it&rsquo;s really spring? Because baseball is beginning anew.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:41:52 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[More toothless reform]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday March 8, 2010    
With the U.S. economy still struggling to emerge from a deep recession  and Democrats still well in control of both houses of Congress, the  time is now for real regulatory reform of the financial industry.



More than a year has passed since the financial house of cards built by the ill-advised deregulation of Wall Street over 30 years collapsed.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 8 Mar 2010 22:55:45 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Time for another look   at term limits?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday February 15, 2010    
Other than ending the cloture rule insanity in the U.S. Senate, only one possible reform would be sure to shake up the political gridlock that has ground the federal government to a halt for more than a decade: that is, term limits.



When term limits were a hot trend in the 1980s and &lsquo;90s, there was an anti-incumbency rage providing most of the fuel, not only]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 6 Mar 2010 01:11:07 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[A better way for Yankee?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday February 18, 2010    
Rep. Patricia O'Donnell's call for a legislative resolution to consider a new nuclear generating plant at the site of the Vermont Yankee plant might be the state's best option for replacing a lost power source  when the aging facility is shut down.



The proposal comes as President Obama is pushing federal loan guarantees to revive the stagnant]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 6 Mar 2010 01:10:32 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Too young to serve?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday February 19, 2010    
Based on recent U.S. history, we might want to consider a new age requirement for the presidency -- like raising the minimum to about 50.



As most probably know from high school history class, the Constitution allows citizens 35 and older to serve as president, but we have to remember that 35 years back in the time the Constitution was written might have meant a]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 6 Mar 2010 01:09:38 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[One more exemption?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday March 5, 2010    
Vermont state law gives people the right to see public records concerning matters conducted by public bodies. The law states, "It is in the public interest to enable any person to review and criticize their decisions even though such examination may cause inconvenience or embarrassment.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 5 Mar 2010 22:57:09 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Vermont&rsquo;s own?]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/editorials/ci_14522731?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday March 5, 2010    
Vermont supporters of meaningful health care reform have been floating a well-tested format that deserves more than a cursory review this year. Regardless of what happens -- or doesn&rsquo;t happen -- in Washington, they say, the state would fare better with its own single-payer health care option.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 5 Mar 2010 22:56:27 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fire companies need   some help on this]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.benningtonbanner.com/editorials/ci_14516194?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday March 4, 2010    
No one should think that the legal or personal problems of a few local firefighters in any way reflects on the organizations they had joined on a voluntary basis. These are organizations that provide a tremendous service to all area towns at a fraction of the cost of a full-time fire department.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 4 Mar 2010 23:00:29 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Try something new   at Town Meeting]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday March 2, 2010    
Almost every year during the Bennington town meeting, the same lament is expressed: Why is there so little participation at the annual floor meeting?



The answer seems obvious: Almost nothing vital to the town of Bennington takes place until the election the following day, when spending and other articles are decided upon and officials elected.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 2 Mar 2010 23:08:23 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Get real on debt]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday February 11, 2010    
Sustainability is one of those environmentally friendly terms that crops up whenever the future of the planet is discussed but which never makes it passed the verbal stage.



In truth, human beings never have been much good at sustaining anything over an extended period, even if that seems the best course for survival; we are much better at running things into the]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:21:44 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ride out this party]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday February 12, 2010    
Democrats quaking in their boots today at the pros-pect of a Tea Party stampede sweeping them from control of Congress might take solace in the experience of Vermont Dem-ocrats during the early 2000s.



Those so-called "activist" Dem-ocrats in the Legislature of that era had stirred the ire of conservatives by passing Act 60 to make education funding more equitable,]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:20:46 EST]]></pubDate>
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