(HOST) This week we’re featuring a Sampler of some of the essays
recorded live at the Commentator Brunch earlier this year. The theme –
"Picture This" – inspired commentator Jeff Shields to describe – in some
detail – a transition that turned out to be full of surprises.
As the Vermont legislature prepares to launch a state-wide, single-payer health care insurance plan, commentator and Dean of the Vermont Law School, Geoff Shields, is trying to assess it’s potential impact.
When his own small town lost its general store recently, commentator Geoff Shields found himself thinking about what service a town needs most to survive.
Commentator Geoff Shields has been listening to the health care debate and observes that it seeks to address two separate – and possibly incompatible – goals.
It seems that every day there is fresh outrage about the AIG bonuses. And with good reason. But commentator Geoff Shields hopes that we aren’t losing sight of the forest for the trees.
Commentator Geoff Shields, President and Dean of Vermont Law School, has been thinking about human rights, civil liberties and the American public’s "need to know."
Commentator Geoff Shields is President and Dean of Vermont Law School. And he thinks that the best way to address the crisis in the auto industry would be to use a legal process that is already tested and ready.