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         <title><![CDATA[Remembering the first days with electricity]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Saturday February 11, 2012    Back in 1918, rural towns had no electric service. Large cities had home lighting and street lights. Some of the small towns had gas street lights which had to be lit at night and put out during the day. Perhaps you have heard of the  &lsquo;lamp lighter.']]></description>
         <dc:creator>By WARREN S. PATRICK</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:51:33 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Green Stamp question]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday, February 10, 2012        I miss getting Sperry & Hutchinson Green Stamps. Recently I happened to catch a glimpse of two large 10-point value S&H Green Stamps wedged into the back of the drawer of my (very old) jewelry box. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Cicely Eastman</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:37:48 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Ducking the Shumlin health exchange bullet]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday February 9, 2012    Just two years from now -- if you are among the 143,000 Vermonters covered by private health insurance -- you are highly likely to find your health insurance in complete limbo.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By JOHN McCLAUGHRY</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 9 Feb 2012 07:20:42 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Fighting Back]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday February 8, 2012    Many people who are denied payment for services by their insurance company are sick and perhaps facing lengthy disability or death, so it is no surprise that so few follow through on claims denials.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By RICHARD DAVIS</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 8 Feb 2012 07:30:26 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Muy Emocionante]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday February 7, 2012    A nice way to begin a critical inquiry into the present moment is to set up a timeline.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By MEG MOTT</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 7 Feb 2012 07:38:43 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Keeping busy at the Statehouse]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday February 6, 2012    Two major bills passed the House this week: Redistricting the legislative districts and reforming Vermont's mental health system.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Rep. CAROLYN PARTRIDGE</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 6 Feb 2012 07:11:37 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[AARP can wait]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday, February 3, 2012      
We receive numerous press releases from the community daily, and part of my job is to go through and pick out the newsworthy items. The other day there was one that caught my attention. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By CICELY M. EASTMAN</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 3 Feb 2012 08:08:19 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[VY pollution puts fish in hot water]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/localeditorials/ci_19883110?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday, February 3, 2012      The recent Vermont Yankee court decision said the State of Vermont can't trump the federal government when it comes to issues of nuclear safety. But the same ruling affirmed Vermont's continuing authority for oversight of other Yankee issues, like enforcement of the Clean Water Act.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By DAVID DEEN</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 3 Feb 2012 07:49:40 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Never violence, only victory]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/localeditorials/ci_19873551?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday February 2, 2012    Defying the will of Vermonters, Entergy Nuclear has successfully won the first stage of its trial to allow it to break its word and to usurp the rights of the Vermont legislature.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By DAN DeWALT</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 2 Feb 2012 07:24:58 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Taken  for a ride]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/localeditorials/ci_19865119?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday February 1, 2012    I decided to take my wife from Mass General Hospital in Boston to Guilford so she could die peacefully in her own home.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By RICHARD DAVIS</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 1 Feb 2012 00:51:24 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The hokey-pokey hen]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/localeditorials/ci_19857371?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday January 31, 2012    Congress is considering whether to pass a bill that will expand the size of commercial hen housing.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By MEG MOTT</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:58:46 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Let's roll out the welcome mat]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday January 31, 2012    In the year 2042, during the lifetime of the next generation of Vermonters, the United States will become a "majority minority" nation.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By CURTISS REED, Jr.</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:56:19 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Keeping politics out of the process]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday January 30, 2012    Every 10 years the U.S. Census Bureau conducts a census - a process we are all familiar with in which all Americans are counted.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>Rep. Carolyn Partridge</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:16:43 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Siren's wail]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Saturday January 28, 2012    I'm sure that many of my fellow Zone-dwellers reacted to Judge Murtha's ruling in favor of Vermont Yankee much as I did, with the upwelling of an old, familiar dread -- for god's sake, not another 20 years of sirens!]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By MICHAEL DALEY</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:41:38 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Time for a four-year term]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday January 26, 2012    It's been just 12 months since the inauguration of 2011, and many candidates are already asking for money and votes for the next race.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By PHIL SCOTT</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 26 Jan 2012 07:27:08 EST]]></pubDate>
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