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    <title>Vermont Public Radio: Opinion</title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 16:49:32 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title>Seamans: Ageful</title>
		<link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/48377/seamans-ageful/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Bill Seamans covered the world as a correspondent for ABC News for many years. In this commentary, he reflects on the toll those years have taken.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/48377/</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title>The State of Education</title>
		<link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/48371/state-education/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[All This week VPR Commentators are looking at the state of education. Listen during All Things Considered for this special commentary series.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/48371/</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title>Slayton: Cameras, Life &amp;amp; Lasting Images</title>
		<link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/47958/slayton-cameras-life-lasting-images/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[After viewing a recent exhibit of photographs in Rutland, commentator Tom Slayton has been thinking about cameras, everyday life, and lasting images.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/47958/</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:55:00 -0500</pubDate>
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	<title>Research Group Says Vt. Has Lost 15,700 Jobs</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/86321/research-group-says-vt-has-lost-15700-jobs/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[
An advocacy group says there are 15,700
fewer jobs in Vermont now than there were at the start of the recession
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/86321/</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:04:00 -0500</pubDate>
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    <title>VPR Presents Lilly Ledbetter</title>
		<link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/47171/vpr-presents-lilly-ledbetter/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[When Lilly Ledbetter learned her male coworkers were paid more for
doing equal work, she filed a complaint and began a wage discrimination
debate that landed in the Supreme Court. Ledbetter appeared at Vermont Technical College
with Senator Patrick Leahy on Saturday, October 17th. 
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/47171/</guid>
	<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title>Interview: David Walker, former U.S. comptroller general</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/86089/interview-david-walker-former-us-comptroller-gener/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[
David Walker, the nation's top auditor for
several presidential administrations, is a 
vocal critic of wasteful government spending.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/86089/</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title>Debating the Economic Stimulus</title>
		<link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/47029/debating-economic-stimulus/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[We'll talk about how - and if - the federal economic stimulus is working. 
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/47029/</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title>Journalist Paul Roberts Speaks at UVM</title>
		<link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/46970/journalist-paul-roberts-speaks-at-uvm/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Listen to Paul Roberts, author of &quot;The End of Food,&quot; at 8 Monday evening.&nbsp;&nbsp; Roberts spoke at UVM as part of the George D Aiken Lecture Series last week.&nbsp; Hear his dicussion about the shortcomings of our food system and what you can do to make it more sustainable.&nbsp; 
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/46970/</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title>Vermont Reads 2009: When The Emperor Was Divine</title>
		<link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/46947/vermont-reads-2009-when-emperor-was-divine/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[In this special series, scholars and surviving Japanese family members who were interned in camps during World War II discuss the internment experience. 
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/46947/</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
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    <title>Gloria Steinem</title>
		<link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/46280/gloria-steinem/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[
Vermont Woman Newspaper brought feminist and author Gloria Steinem to 
Burlington June 11th in celebration of the Magazine's sixth year and Steinem's 75th birthday. 

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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/46280/</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:00:00 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title>VPR Evening News November 26th,  2008</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/83030/vpr-evening-news-november-26th-2008/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders wants to know why Vermont gas prices are still higher than the rest of the country; Ski resorts look forward to the season; Demand rises for heating assistance; and commentator Mary Barosse-Schwartz on a localvore Thankgiving.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/83030/</guid>
	<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:12:08 -0500</pubDate>
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	<title>VT Edition Interview:  VPR&#039;s Ross Sneyd Analyzes Top Stories</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/81638/vt-edition-interview-vprs-ross-sneyd-analyzes-top/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[VPR reporters Bob Kinzel and Ross Sneyd discuss the week's top stories.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/81638/</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:00:09 -0400</pubDate>
	<vpr:moreLabel><![CDATA[Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;Now]]></vpr:moreLabel>	<vpr:airDate2>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:00:09 -0400</vpr:airDate2>				    <enclosure url="http://www.vpr.net/audio/news/regional_news/2008/08/2008-0808-vermont_edition-B.mp3" length="3647010" type="audio/mpeg" />
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	<title>VPR Evening Newscast, July 7, 2008</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/81233/vpr-evening-newscast-july-7-2008/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[VT delegation hop to double low heating assistance money;
VSAC loans for college students are going down.&nbsp; U.S. Border Patrol
officer fired shots in a scuffle in the woods at the Derby Line; Aabama
authorities file child pornography charges against Brooke Bennett's former
stepfather; commentator Philip Baruth on life, art and the Pixar film WALL-E.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/81233/</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title>Good thoughts about the heat</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/80892/good-thoughts-about-heat/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[
Record high temperatures in the Northeast this week have people
turning on air conditioners, breaking out the bathing suits and looking for a cool
place to escape the heat.  But
VPR's Tim Johnson says that after this past winter, it can't get hot
enough.

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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/80892/</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 12:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title>Martha Tormey on her personal reality television show</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/80235/martha-tormey-on-her-personal-reality-television-s/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Many prime time television
shows are returning to the air this week with new episodes. And
Burlington comic Martha Tormey is pretty happy about it.  She explains
how imagining a TV show about
her life gets her through boring moments.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/80235/</guid>
	<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:23:32 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title>Potholes inspire poetry</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/80029/potholes-inspire-poetry/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[the Herald of Randolph recently invited readers to submit poems about
potholes.&nbsp; This week's Herald contains a selection of odes written to the
bane of Vermont drivers. &nbsp;Here
are just a few:
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/80029/</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:00:25 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title>Ode to a Pothole</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79994/ode-to-pothole/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[All this week, VPR has been reporting on the state of Vermont's roads
after one of the worst winters. Today, commentator, storyteller and contractor
Willem Lange is here with the lighter side.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79994/</guid>
	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:05:04 -0400</pubDate>
	<vpr:moreLabel><![CDATA[Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;Now]]></vpr:moreLabel>	<vpr:airDate2>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:05:04 -0400</vpr:airDate2>				    <enclosure url="http://www.vpr.net/audio/news/regional_news/2008/04/2008_0404_pothole.mp3" length="1351160" type="audio/mpeg" />
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	<title>Nasty flu a popular topic of conversation</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79922/nasty-flu-popular-topic-conversation/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[VPR's Tim Johnson has found out his recent flu bug is a popular conversation starter and he wants to know who gave it to him.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79922/</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:34:37 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title>Vermont Women: Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79860/vermont-women-alice-herdan-zuckmayer/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Today, commentator Cyndy Bittinger tells how one of the best books about farm
life in Vermont in the 1940s came to be written by a German refugee.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79860/</guid>
	<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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	<title>Martha Tormey on Lane Changing Anxiety Disorder</title>
	<link>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79295/martha-tormey-on-lane-changing-anxiety-disorder/</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The way Martha Tormey sees it, how we drive says
something about who we are - and there's a particular driving habit that
clearly gets on the Vermont comedian's nerves.
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	<guid>http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79295/</guid>
	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:54:42 -0500</pubDate>
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