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		<title>Campaign Rhetoric: Lower Taxes, Deregulation, and Job Creation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The gubernatorial campaign is underway, the fabulist hymnal is open and campaigners are in full-throated song, These are a few of my favorite things…. “As your Governor, I’m going to lower taxes on working Vermonters and businesses, and do away with regulation so that we can create jobs for Vermonters. How sweet the sound, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schubart.com/?p=693</link>
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		<title>Did He Pass or Did He Die?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The father of a dear friend died last month. In relaying the news to me, he said his father had “passed.” My mind immediately sought a grammatical object, knowing full well that the misery of massive medical interventions had finally ended for his father, my mind still asked what he had passed, his exams, another [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schubart.com/?p=689</link>
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		<title>Vermont&#8217;s Two Electoral Systems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vermont has two electoral systems. The traditional one we all know and a shadow cabinet of older men who, over the years, have provided many great services to Vermont, but who also have definite ideas about who should lead the State. These men vet and bless candidates of their choosing and will, as often, see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schubart.com/?p=685</link>
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		<title>The Blame Game</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a lot to be saddened about in the BP disaster. The damage to the gulf and shoreline may take a generation to recover, the economic loss to the region, a decade and, for many, will only follow a full environmental recovery. But we’re a blame culture, so it’s instructive to watch the game play [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schubart.com/?p=673</link>
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		<title>Stasis or Change?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Much of what I hear these days is, “I’m gonna vote for balance. If the legislature’s gonna be Democratic, I’ll vote for a Republican governor to keep them in check.” So, say we’ve achieved our goal of stasis, defined by The Oxford English Dictionary as “stagnation, a state of motionless or unchanging equilibrium. Is this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schubart.com/?p=669</link>
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		<title>Talk to me&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was a cub scout in Morrisville in 1953, one of my merit badge projects was to learn Morse code. Another was talking into orange juice cans connected by a piece of taut string. Although this bypassed our 4-party line, it only worked within the range of normal talking distance so we soon tired [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schubart.com/?p=665</link>
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		<title>Ah, Mother</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s time to think about Mother again. And then will come Father’s Day.  For many of us, it’s bittersweet to revisit our mothers and fathers, either in person or in memory. There are reasons for this. Good parents understand the challenges and difficult choices in life and don’t obsess about making their children or themselves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schubart.com/?p=661</link>
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		<title>Our Schools, Ourselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are in a six-passenger compartment on the eight-hour train ride from Marrakesh to Fez. It is like a small ensemble theater company that will change characters as we move through the cities in between.  As the packed train departs, we’re in the company of two Moroccan women, a young Moroccan girl, traveling alone, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schubart.com/?p=656</link>
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		<title>The Courage of the Nuns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the bishops have their vestments in a twist again, as if they hadn&#8217;t created enough problems for themselves, swearing the victims of their colleagues&#8217; sexual predations to secrecy. In spite of the bill&#8217;s hair-raising passage, they opposed it, health care access for God&#8217;s poor, imagining that somehow, somewhere, some poor child might terminate an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schubart.com/?p=652</link>
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		<title>A New Town Center for Vermont&#8217;s Small Towns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least for the time being, we must all get smaller. By “smaller,” I mean our government, town, school, non-profit, business, and household budgets. Though we may feel like victims of the recent experiment in capitalism without borders, and to a degree we are, we are also subject to the normal rise and fall of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.schubart.com/?p=646</link>
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