Commentary Series
Commentary Series
Kashmeri: Assault Weapons Ban
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Recently, commentator Sarwar Kashmeri proposed that the Federal Government think about funding a billion dollar, ten-year, gun-buyback program to soak up as many of the 300 million firearms in America as possible. Now, he’d like to take that concept one step further.Commentary Series
Dunsmore: North Korean Threat
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Tensions continue in Asia as North Korea responds angrily to new United Nations sanctions and the latest U.S./South Korean military exercises, with threats to attack South Korea – and America – with nuclear missiles. Barrie Dunsmore offers his analysis.Commentary Series
McCallum: Poetry Month
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Besides being mud season in Vermont, April is also National Poetry Month, which has Mary McCallum thinking about the importance of poetry in everyday life.Commentary Series
Barlow: Asylum Cemetery
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Daniel Barlow has spent the last two years visiting as many Vermont cemeteries as he can. And while he’s found that they all have stories to tell – some are darker than others.Commentary Series
Gilbert: What JFK Jr. Taught Me
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Peter Gilbert recalls something a former student said now fifteen years ago and explains how, finally, he came to understand its wisdom.Commentary Series
Homeyer: Spring Is Sprung!
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Henry Homeyer keeps away cabin fever by starting some seedlings indoors. He says now is the time to plant tomato seeds.Commentary Series
Averyt: A Mud-luscious World
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April is for lovers and poets, observes Anne Averyt. It’s the beginning of spring, a time of giddiness, of magic and hope, when the world is mud-luscious.Commentary Series
Henningsen: The Four Freedoms
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In 1941 Franklin Roosevelt defined four essential human freedoms that Americans would enter World War II to defend. By 1943, they’d been forgotten. Vic Henningsen explains how, seventy years ago, a Vermont artist and his neighbors made the Four Freedoms an enduring American memory.Commentary Series
