<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Vermont</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/vt?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><description>Vermont</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Sen. Jeffords Says He Plans to Step Down]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4481-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4481-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jeffords (I-Vt.), whose abrupt defection from the Republican Party in May 2001 handed control of the Senate to the Democrats for 19 months, will not seek a fourth term in 2006 due to his and his wife's health problems.]]></description><author> Dan Morgan</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[NEA, States Challenge 'No Child' Program]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4741-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4741-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The nation's largest teacher's union  joins school districts in Michigan, Texas, and Vermont in filing a federal lawsuit charging that the Department of Education has failed to provide adequate funding for the No Child Left Behind initiative.]]></description><author> Michael Dobbs</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conn. Backs Civil Unions for Same-Sex Couples]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51518-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51518-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Connecticut's House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday that would make the state the second to establish civil unions for same-sex couples, and the first to do so without being directed by a court.]]></description><author> Jonathan Finer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connecticut Closer to Approving Civil Unions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22026-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22026-2005Apr2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ HARTFORD, Conn.  --  Connecticut could become the second state in the nation to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples  --  and the first to do so without being prompted by a court order.]]></description><author> Jonathan Finer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memoirs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17330-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17330-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In    Losing the Garden: The Story of a Marriage , (Shoemaker & Hoard, $24) Laura Waterman describes her life as shaped to an astonishing extent by her husband, Guy Waterman. Guy was a serious climber, and Laura learned to climb with him. Inspired by the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s and the writings of Helen and Scott Nearing, the couple bought a parcel of land in Vermont and lived there in a cabin without electricity or running water for 30 years. They called this place Barra.]]></description><author> Juliet Wittman</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saying No Mow]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20015-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20015-2005Apr1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When Janice and Alex Dreier lived in Alexandria, they devoted a significant chunk of their weekend to yard work. Not so since moving to a house in Bethesda in fall 2003, when they hired professionals to care for their lawn.]]></description><author> Rebecca R. Kahlenberg</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[PERFORMING ARTS]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17386-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17386-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ravinia Musicians <br>On Wednesday evening at the Library of Congress, you might have been forgiven for momentarily confusing the wealthy Chicago suburbs with the Green Mountains. The young musicians of the Ravinia Festival's Steans Institute gave a vibrant chamber music concert that was uncannily similar to something you would hear at the famed Marlboro Music Festival in southern Vermont. As in any Marlboro concert, the institute's skilled young musicians worked nicely with established performers to give readings of uncommon polish and energy.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anti-Indecency Forces Face Opposition]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1962-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1962-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The push to crack down harder on radio and television indecency, which rose to national attention with Janet Jackson's brief exposure during the 2004 Super Bowl halftime show, is beginning to stir pockets of opposition.]]></description><author> Frank Ahrens</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Researcher Fabricated Data in Studies on Women]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45611-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45611-2005Mar17.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A researcher well known for his studies on women, menopause, aging and body weight fabricated data for more than a decade, falsified applications for federal grants and tried to cover up his misconduct, federal officials announced yesterday.]]></description><author> Rob Stein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an Ex-Python, and He's Okay]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22126-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22126-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In the fall of 2003 Eric Idle set off on a greedy bastard tour, as defined by a friend: "It's a rock-and-roll term" for a tour in which the star eschews the money-losing "full band with a big crew" and tours by himself, keeping all the money for himself.]]></description><author> Jonathan Yardley,</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Senate Impasse Stops 'Clear Skies' Measure]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20314-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20314-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush's bid to rewrite federal air pollution laws ground to a halt in Congress yesterday when Republicans were unable to overcome objections in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that the bill would weaken the central pillars of the nation's environmental protection framework.]]></description><author> Shankar Vedantam</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Has Floppy Ears And a Subversive Tale?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10415-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10415-2005Mar5.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Like forbidden dissenters in some intolerant land, a couple hundred families took refuge in a church basement in Washington yesterday for a morning of dangerous "Buster" television.]]></description><author> David Montgomery</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orvis's New Angle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A397-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A397-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Vermont-based company is extending its brand to luxury log homes, the better to shelter all that outdoor gear.]]></description><author> Annie Groer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Vermont's Ballots: Iraq War]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64186-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64186-2005Mar1.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Voters in 34 of 52 Vermont towns passed a nonbinding resolution Tuesday asking the congressional delegation to reassert state authority over Guard units and the federal government to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq.]]></description><author> Jonathan Finer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[No Bunny's Business]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31087-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31087-2005Feb16.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Pat Mitchell insists her decision to leave PBS has nothing to do with the controversy over "Postcards From Buster."]]></description><author> Lisa de Moraes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dean Tries on DNC Chairmanship]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19554-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19554-2005Feb12.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former Vermont governor claimed the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee by acclamation and used his opening speech to attack President Bush and the Republicans for "fiscal recklessness."]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Special-Interest  Group Hug]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17718-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17718-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Incoming  Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean spent yesterday in a series of meetings with valued Democratic constituencies at the Hilton Washington. He did the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Caucus at 12:15 p.m., the Seniors Coordination Council at 12:45 p.m., the Women's Caucus at 3:40 p.m., the Native Americans at 4:35 p.m., the African Americans at 5 p.m., the Asian Pacific Islanders at 5:20 p.m. and the Hispanics at 5:40 p.m.]]></description><author> Mark Leibovich</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dean Tries on DNC Chairmanship]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17539-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17539-2005Feb11.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Poised to claim the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Saturday, the former Vermont governor spent Friday preparing for his transition and rallying the party's many caucuses, where he attacked Republicans for their policies while praising them for their political skills.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[WETA Board Approves Switch To News-Talk Format]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15840-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15840-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WETA-FM listeners who had hoped to prevent the widely anticipated decision by the public broadcasting station's board of directors to drop classical music programs left its Shirlington offices disappointed last night.  By an overwhelming majority, the board approved a resolution to focus on news and public-affairs programming.]]></description><author> Philip Kennicott</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supercharged McAuliffe Revels in Closing Days of Tenure]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15398-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15398-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_nation/states/vt</guid><pubDate>Wed, 4 May 2005 22:01:39 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With two days left before he hands the gavel over to former Vermont governor Howard Dean, McAuliffe was running at full speed, wrapping up the last details of the party's finances, lunching with reporters, and being feted at a gala whose speakers included former president Bill Clinton and the party's 2004 presidential nominee, John F. Kerry.]]></description><author> Dan Balz</author></item></channel></rss>