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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[News and conversation about issues affecting your life - plus a bit of the unexpected.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Education Charts A New Course</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca discusses the department's change to a state agency, and Senator Bernie Sanders looks at the future of rural post offices.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 13:58:56 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Education Commissioner Armando Vilaseca discusses the department's change to a state agency, and Senator Bernie Sanders looks at the future of rural post offices.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Vermont Reads: The Literature Of War</title>
      <description><![CDATA[As part of VPR's weeklong series, Vermont Reads Bull Run, we look at how war is written about inliterature, and what we can learn about the experience and the truths of war byreading about it.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 16:14:28 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[As part of VPR's weeklong series, Vermont Reads Bull Run, we look at how war is written about inliterature, and what we can learn about the experience and the truths of war byreading about it.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Rural Transit: Sometimes You Can Get There From Here</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We discuss how rural mass transit is being accomplished in the state and where Vermont needs to improve.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:42:30 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[We discuss how rural mass transit is being accomplished in the state and where Vermont needs to improve.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Adjutant General Dubie Prepares To Step Down</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Major General Michael Dubie's tenure as Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard will end this year, when he's confirmed as deputy commander of NORTHCOM. Dubie talks with VPR's Jane Lindholm about his years heading the guard and the issues his successor will face.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:04:13 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Major General Michael Dubie's tenure as Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard will end this year, when he's confirmed as deputy commander of NORTHCOM. Dubie talks with VPR's Jane Lindholm about his years heading the guard and the issues his successor will face.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>46:42</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Extinctions As Damaging As Climate Change</title>
      <description><![CDATA[A new study published in Naturefound that the extinction of plant and animal species may be doing just asmuch damage to the planet as climate change and pollution.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 14:39:10 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[A new study published in Naturefound that the extinction of plant and animal species may be doing just asmuch damage to the planet as climate change and pollution.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Reporters Roundtable: Results Of 2012 Legislature</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We talk with political reporters in the state about how lawmakers and the governor dealt with several difficult issues in the final year of the biennium.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:24:12 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[We talk with political reporters in the state about how lawmakers and the governor dealt with several difficult issues in the final year of the biennium.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Legislative Leaders Assess Session</title>
      <description><![CDATA[House Speaker Shap Smith and Minority Leader Don Turner look back at the successes and failures of the recent session of the Legislature.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:48:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[House Speaker Shap Smith and Minority Leader Don Turner look back at the successes and failures of the recent session of the Legislature.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <itunes:duration>7:22</itunes:duration>
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      <title>Welch Speaking Out About Student Loan Debt</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Representative Peter Welch has been speaking out about what he saysis the necessity of keeping interest rates on Stafford Loans from doubling, and the greater issues ofstudent loan debt and college affordability.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 18:58:35 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Representative Peter Welch has been speaking out about what he saysis the necessity of keeping interest rates on Stafford Loans from doubling, and the greater issues ofstudent loan debt and college affordability.]]></itunes:summary>
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      <title>Recognizing Vermont's Abenaki</title>
      <description><![CDATA[We look at what affect state recognition of the Abenaki tribes might have on federal recognition, revisit the Maurice Sendak collection at Dartmouth and get a preview of the VPT series, &#34;The Governors.&#34;]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:14:51 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Flocking Together: Spring Migration Bird Show</title>
      <description><![CDATA[Time to get out your waterproof binoculars, and download the latest birding app - it's time for Vermont Edition's annual bird show.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:33:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Time to get out your waterproof binoculars, and download the latest birding app - it's time for Vermont Edition's annual bird show.]]></itunes:summary>
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