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    <title>Commentary Series (VPR)</title>
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Perspective and opinion about current events, topics of interest and a showcase for writers and storytellers.

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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:12:44 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Tuesday July  8, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43990/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Commentator Bill Mares is an author, as well as a former teacher and legislator. He has also worked as a journalist. Lately, he's been thinking a lot about how the news business is changing.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43990/</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Tuesday July  8, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43983/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Commentator Tim McQuiston says that while IBM employees, and indeed the entire state, shivers every time there's a rumor of a layoff, the company must itself wonder how its valuable Vermont plant fits into its own plans.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43983/</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Monday July  7, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43982/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[For Commentator Philip Baruth, summer blockbusters are like Christmas fruitcakes: not very enjoyable, but at least they let you know what month it is.&nbsp; Philip went to see Pixar's animated tale Wall-E and found it just so-so.&nbsp; That is, until life began to imitate art.&nbsp; And then he had the time of his life.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43982/</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Monday July  7, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43960/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The parades, fireworks and picnics celebrating our democratic values may be over for another year, but former Vermont governor and commentator Madeleine Kunin wants us to remember that there are still places in the world where basic human rights are denied to many.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43960/</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Friday July  4, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43964/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Writer, storyteller, and commentator Willem Lange has a few thoughts on Independence Day.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43964/</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Friday July  4, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43963/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Celebrating Independence Day has special significance in an election year, when we consider where the country's headed next.&nbsp; Teacher and historian Vic Henningsen reflects on the politics of independence and its meaning to those who made it.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43963/</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Thursday July  3, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43962/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The 4th of July is most closely associated with the Revolutionary War, but historian and commentator Howard Coffin reminds us that important events also occurred on this date during the Civil War - as reflected in the experiences of two Vermont brothers.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43962/</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Thursday July  3, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43954/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Did the news media go over the top in devoting far too much time to the death of NBC&rsquo;s Tim Russert?&nbsp; This morning, commentator Barrie Dunsmore, who spent more than thirty years as a correspondent for ABC News, has some thoughts on the coverage.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43954/</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Wednesday July  2, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43952/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Art Woolf teaches economics at UVM and blogs at vermonttiger.com. He says that on the 4th of July, Americans celebrate more than just political freedom.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43952/</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Wednesday July  2, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43944/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This summer the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburg is featuring recordings of eight pivotal speeches by American abolitionists. Commentator and executive director of the Vermont Humanities Council Peter Gilbert says that one of them seems especially relevant today - as the Fourth of July approaches.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43944/</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Tuesday July  1, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43943/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[It takes an active homeowner to take advantage of passive energy. Commentator Deborah Luskin and her family have recently accepted the challenge to make one, small, green change in their lives.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43943/</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Tuesday July  1, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43945/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[As America's birthday approaches, historian Kenneth Davis has been thinking about another Fourth of July story - one that many Americans haven't heard.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43945/</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Monday June 30, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43842/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[
Commentator Ruth Page has been reading about current studies of jellyfish - and remembering childhood vacations at the beach. 

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43842/</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Friday June 27, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43911/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Commentator Willem Lange has some thoughts on the little creature you often find in wet towels in the summertime.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43911/</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Thursday June 26, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43909/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Technology can change the world, but commentator Bill Shutkin thinks that when it comes to climate change, what's most important is vision.

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43909/</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Wednesday June 25, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43910/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Commentator Deborah Doyle-Schechtman has been thinking about TV journalist Tim Russert - his sudden death, a high school friendship and home town values.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43910/</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Monday June 23, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43849/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[
Charlie Nardozzi is an all-around gardening expert who says that East can meet West in the garden - by planting bamboo.&nbsp;

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43849/</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Friday June 20, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43877/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[To round out this week's sampler of the &quot;Turning Point&quot; essays - recorded at this year's Commentators' Brunch - commentator Willem Lange observes that sometimes it's the little things that count.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43877/</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:30:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Friday June 20, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43876/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This week, we've been sampling the &quot;Turning Point&quot; essays recorded at this year's Commentators' Brunch. This morning we hear from commentator Barrie Dunsmore as he recalls events that led up to a &quot;watershed moment&quot; in world history.
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        <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Thursday June 19, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43869/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This afternoon, in our &quot;Turning Point&quot; sampler of essays recorded at this year's Commentators' Brunch, commentator Deborah Luskin recalls a moment of both clarity and profound transformation.

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43869/</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Thursday June 19, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43857/</link>
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Continuing our &quot;Turning Point&quot; sampler of essays recorded at this year's Commentators' Brunch,  commentator Helen Labun Jordan has some thoughts about the passage of various childhood friends into adulthood. 

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43857/</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:55:23 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Wednesday June 18, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43858/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[As we continue to sample the &quot;Turning Point&quot; essays recorded at this year's Commentators' Brunch, we hear about a major transition in the life of commentator Jay Craven that involved a creative mix of art and money.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43858/</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:48:25 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Wednesday June 18, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43856/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This morning, as we continue to sample the &quot;Turning Point&quot; essays recorded at this year's Commentators' Brunch, commentator Mike Martin reflects that some transformative events are very slow in coming - if indeed - they come at all.

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43856/</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Tuesday June 17, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43855/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[As we continue to sample the &quot;Turning Point&quot; essays recorded at this year's Commentators' Brunch, commentator Howard Coffin recalls how one event had a profound effect on his sense of priorities.

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43855/</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Tuesday June 17, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43854/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This week we're sampling the &quot;Turning Point&quot; essays recorded at this year's Commentators' Brunch. Commentator Deborah Doyle-Schechtman thinks that life is full of potential &quot;Turning Points&quot; - but that their meaning is determined by how we respond to them.  
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43854/</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:55:11 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Monday June 16, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43859/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[On a Saturday morning in mid-April, thirty-plus commentators and assorted guests gathered for brunch - and a reading of short essays on the theme of &quot;Turning Points&quot;. VPR recorded the event - and this week we're sampling some of the results. Commentator Ruth Page departed from her usual environmental beat to discuss some of the &quot;Turning Points&quot; she has encountered in family life.

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43859/</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:50:01 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Monday June 16, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43853/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[On Saturday, April 12th, more than thirty commentators gathered at the Stoweflake Mountain Resort and Spa for brunch - and to present a series of short essays on a common theme of &quot;Turning Points&quot;. The event was recorded and this week we're sampling some of the results. Commentator Tom Slayton, veteran journalist and editor-emeritus of Vermont Life magazine, came to his &quot;Turning Point&quot; on a mountain hike. 

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43853/</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:36:46 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Friday June 13, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43845/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Today's date - Friday the 13th - has inspired anxiety and superstition for generations. And commentator Dan Rockmore - professor of math and computer science at Dartmouth - wonders why.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43845/</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Friday June 13, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43818/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Andrew thinks we've abandoned &quot;Authentic Vermont&quot; in favor of the lazy and uncreative
harvesting of the low hanging fruit of nostalgia.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43818/</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Thursday June 12, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43805/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[With the Democratic nomination finally in hand, Barack Obama last week created an informal committee to help sift the names of potential running mates. Vermont Senator Pat Leahy has apparently agreed to lend a hand. But commentator Philip Baruth, himself an early supporter and now an Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention, believes that Leahy could easily play a more central role.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43805/</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Wednesday June 11, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43804/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The gardening season is now in full swing, and commentator Tom Slayton, veteran journalist and editor-emeritus of Vermont Life magazine, is remembering last year's garden - even as he plants this year's basil...
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43804/</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Wednesday June 11, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43798/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[It's the season of commencement addresses. And commentator Peter Gilbert, the executive director of the Vermont Humanities Council, offers some advice for graduating students - and all of us - about the difference between goal-setting and the process of getting to that goal.

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43798/</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Tuesday June 10, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43797/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Commentator Ted Levin recently returned from Costa Rica, where he discovered a business venture based on the conservation of an dangered species and the preservation of a rural culture.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43797/</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Tuesday June 10, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43787/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[School will be out soon.  Historian, teacher and commentator Vic Henningsen reflects that what teachers do - and might do -  makes summer &quot;vacation&quot; a misleading term.    


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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43787/</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Monday June  9, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43786/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Rebecca Coffey is a freelance writer with a special interest in mental health issues, who believes that sharing adventures may help make famlily ties stronger.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43786/</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Monday June  9, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43774/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Charlie Nardozzi is an all-around gardening expert with some creative ideas about how to get kids involved in gardening.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43774/</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Friday June  6, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43764/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[According to commentator, storyteller and contractor Willem Lange, Maine's Rapid River more than lives up to its name.&nbsp; &nbsp;
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43764/</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Friday June  6, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43768/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[
Kerstin
Lange, of Burlington, feels at home in a place where love of the land
is a shared value.

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43768/</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:50:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Thursday June  5, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43765/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Commentator Henry Homeyer is a gardening coach and writer who lives in Cornish Flat, New Hampshire - and he says that even a very small garden can add a lot to your table.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43765/</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Thursday June  5, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43754/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[There are several important groups that are uneasy with the prospects of a President Barack Obama, among them the American Jewish community. This morning commentator Barrie Dunsmore, former diplomatic and foreign correspondent for ABC News, examines that issue.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43754/</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Wednesday June  4, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43759/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[You may like cream with your coffee, but commentator Bill Mares, who is an author as well as a retired teacher and legislator, likes a little social activism with his....
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43759/</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Wednesday June  4, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43752/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Commentator Cheryl Hanna, a Professor at Vermont Law School, attended much of the trial of Brian Rooney for the rape and murder of Michelle Gardner-Quinn.&nbsp; She shares her thoughts on the meaning of it all.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43752/</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Tuesday June  3, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43758/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The New England Collegiate Baseball League season is here, and the champion Vermont Mountaineers play their first exhibition game tomorrow at Montpelier's Recreation Field on Elm Street at 5 o'clock. Commentator and Executive Director of the Vermont Humanities Council Peter Gilbert has some thoughts about the poetry of pitching.

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43758/</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Tuesday June  3, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43736/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The legislature made an effort this past session to grapple with two huge issues that tower over Vermont: energy and climate change. Commentator Alan Betts, President of the Vermont Academy of Science and Engineering, reviews the results and urges Vermonters to take action.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43736/</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Monday June  2, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43737/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Commentator Dan Rockmore is a professor of math and computer science at Dartmouth, and - as many network TV series wrap up another season - he's reflecting on the one in which mathematics has a starring role.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43737/</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Monday June  2, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43735/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Green-up day may have come and gone for another year, but&nbsp; free lance writer, teacher and commentator Mary McCallum says that on her road - the effort to keep Vermont green - goes on forever.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43735/</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Friday May 30, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43734/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Teacher, writer and commentator Deborah Luskin was inspired by VPR's My Vermont project to reflect on how she came to live in the Green Mountains. She says that her Vermont is a place to both work and play.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43734/</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Friday May 30, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43717/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Commentator, attorney and lifelong sports fan Brian Porto thinks that the man who broke the color barrier in professional hockey fifty years ago, should be more widely celebrated - for that accomplishment and for a great deal more.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43717/</guid>
        <pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 07:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Thursday May 29, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43715/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Storyteller, contractor and commentator Willem Lange has been climbing mountains again - and reflecting on the legends that sometimes become associated with them.

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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43715/</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 17:55:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <title>Thursday May 29, 2008</title>
        <link>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43704/</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Commentator Tom Slayton is a veteran journalist and editor-emeritus of Vermont Life magazine, who's been reading a new book about the demise - and possible resurrection - of the American Chestnut tree.
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        <guid>http://www.vpr.net/episode/43704/</guid>
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