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         <title><![CDATA[I remember when ...]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday June 19, 2013    In the early 1950s when John Grindlay had his grocery store in East Jamaica, sometimes he would buy beef from a man named Ralph Carvage who lived in South Windham and raised a few head of cattle. ]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By WARREN S. PATRICK</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:09:29 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Pets]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday June 19, 2013    Humans fall far short in the friend category compared to pets.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By RICHARD DAVIS</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:08:31 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[This will not end well]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday June 18, 2013    In Syria, the Obama administration seems to be stumbling back to the future: An old-fashioned proxy war, complete with the usual shadowy CIA arms-running operation, the traditional plan to prop up ostensible "moderates" whose prospects are doubtful and, of course, the customary shaky grasp of what the fighting is really about.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By EUGENE ROBINSON</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:49:30 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The dance of the excavators]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday June 18, 2013    The phalanx of formidable earthmovers parked in front of the old Kipling cinema days before any demolition began.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By BECCA BALINT</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:40:54 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[People trust NSA more than Facebook]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday June 17, 2013    NEW YORK - One big reason why Americans aren't that outraged by the revelations that the U.S.government runs a massive online and cellphone spying operation: People already assume they're being tracked all over the Internet by companies like Google and Facebook.

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         <dc:creator>By WILL OREMUS</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 17 Jun 2013 08:02:18 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[A new balance toward liberty]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday June 14, 2013    WASHINGTON -- The hardest thing in an argument is to acknowledge competing truths.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By E.J. DIONNE JR.</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:04:40 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Mitigation]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Friday June 14, 2013    There are areas that just seem to flood all the time.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By BEN ROSE</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:04:18 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[On Flag Day, a reflection on 'true colors']]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday June 13, 2013    Flag Day is celebrated every year on June 14, the day when -- in 1777 -- the Stars and Stripes became the official banner of our nation.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Lt. Gov. PHIL SCOTT</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:32:23 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Gut check on 'Climate Change']]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/news/ci_23448649/gut-check-lsquo-climate-change-rsquo?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Thursday June 13, 2013    For the past 20 years Vermonters have been fed a heavy diet of terrors originally labeled the Menace of Global Warming -- then renamed "climate change" after the predicted warming failed to appear.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By JOHN McCLAUGHRY</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 13 Jun 2013 07:32:02 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The governor brings needed legislation to light]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/news/ci_23440185/governor-brings-needed-legislation-light?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday June 12, 2013    Governor Shumlin is certainly getting some press as a result of the land transaction with his neighbor in East Montpelier, and I am certain the governor would be happy if it were to just go away.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By REP. TIM GOODWIN</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:45:31 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The fog of insurance]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday June 12, 2013    It would be an understatement to say that Vermonters are confused about the details of the new health care exchange that will become operational on Jan.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By RICHARD DAVIS</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Jun 2013 06:44:44 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Reclaiming jazz's licorice stick]]></title>
         <link><![CDATA[http://www.reformer.com/news/ci_23431835/reclaiming-jazz-rsquo-s-licorice-stick?source=rss]]></link>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday June 11, 2013    Two images sit with me as I write I write this: A woman covered by a blue and white prayer shawl surrounded by angry faces.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By BECCA BALINT</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:46:16 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[The next salvo in the evolutionary arms race]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Monday June 10, 2013    Thursday marked an important annual celebration in my town, the first day of the farmers market.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By Eric Baerren</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 10 Jun 2013 06:51:30 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[Life is painful, suffering is optional]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Wednesday June 5, 2013    How many times a day do people ask, "How are you?"]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By RICHARD DAVIS</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 5 Jun 2013 07:36:16 EDT]]></pubDate>
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         <title><![CDATA[A tale of four mowers]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tuesday June 4, 2013    I felt certain my neighbors would think I'd replaced my lawn with a wheat crop.]]></description>
         <dc:creator>By BECCA BALINT</dc:creator>
         <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 4 Jun 2013 07:22:04 EDT]]></pubDate>
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