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      <title><![CDATA[Bennington Banner: Letters to the Editor]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Letters: We favor redefining fetus status]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Right to Life has long



advocated fetus legislation



Many thanks for the Banner article by Dawson Raspuzzi (Oct. 25) covering the memorial service in Bennington for the unborn twins Kaleb Michael Blair and Harley Olivia Blair, both of whom died as a result of a head-on car crash on August 11.



I attended the service and was moved by the love the Blair family has for all of their children,]]></description>
         <dc:creator>&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:03:56 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Letters: No COLAs 'dishonest at worst']]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Denial of COLA for retirees is intolerable



The proposed denial of any Social Security cost-of-living adjustment for 2010 by the Social Security Administration, for the first time in 35 years, represents nothing less than the betrayal of America's elderly by the very agency charged with protecting us.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:47:36 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Letters: Reminded of civic duties]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Reminded of what is always our duty as citizens



An impressive letter from the former political science student in Arlington articulated the current dysfunction and the foreseeable even greater degradation of our political system and how it affects the integrity of our democratic form of government.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:10:59 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Letters: Shouldn't we do what is right?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[In her recent column, Audrey Pietrucha questions whether health care is a human right. Her final analysis is that it is not, based on her definition that a right is "something that should not involve the usurpation of a fellow citizen's rights." 



Perhaps the issue is not how we define human right but whether we do what is right.]]></description>
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         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:22:36 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Banner Letters Policy]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday, June 11

 Send letters and columns to the Bennington Banner: by mail to 425 Main St., Bennington, VT 05201; by e-mail to news@benningtonbanner.com (no attachments, please); by fax to 802-442-3413. We may edit any letter or column for length, style or content, and reserve the right to reject letters or columns as not suitable.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Letters</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 1 Jul 2009 10:06:15 EDT]]></pubDate>
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