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         <title><![CDATA[State spending: Totally unsustainable]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Accentuated by the recession, the state's recent economic news and fiscal projections inescapably suggest that Vermonters simply cannot sustain their present level of government spending.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By JOHN McCLAUGHRY</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:16:20 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Act 250 changes   threaten our history]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[I grew up wondering through the woods of the Northeast Kingdom on an endless search for arrowheads, old bottles and rusted metal.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By ANDREW BEAUPRE</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:16:45 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA['Where's the Pieta?']]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[The loveliest part of writing this column is the unexpected response I sometimes get from readers.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By JOYCE MARCEL</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:19:55 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The Churchill plan]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[They knew that they didn't have the political firepower of a battalion of Catholic bishops. Yet, they thought they were going to be able to engineer the first vote on single payer legislation in the nation's history. It was not to be.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By RICHARD DAVIS</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:30:13 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Lessons from the closet]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Rumor has it that the anti-gay marriage proposition on the ballot in Maine succeeded in large part due to an ad campaign that linked gay marriage to teaching gayness in the schools.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By MEG MOTT</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:24:17 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Electric rates, and VY's future]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[If Vermont Yankee is not relicensed, how will we replace the power, and with what consequences to electric rates?]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By JOHN GREENBERG</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:21:07 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Why do we    need court reorganization?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[On Nov. 6, the Vermont Commission on Judicial Operation, of which I am chairman, voted unanimously to endorse a plan that if adopted by the Vermont Legislature will significantly change the way our courts function.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By PAUL L. REIBER</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:29:23 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The prevalence and relevance of porn]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Let's talk about porn.



You know how you never think about something, and then something happens to wake you up, and then you notice that it has been there all along?]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By JOYCE MARCEL</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:14:41 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[This old house]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Competing sound bites and partisan hype make it difficult to understand what is happening during the great American health care reform debate of 2009.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By RICHARD DAVIS</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:08:05 EST]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[What follows no?]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[There's a lot to say no to: No to war; No to Ponzi schemes; No to global warming; No to government bailouts; No to nuclear power.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By MEG MOTT</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:03:36 EST]]></pubDate>
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