Bill Mares
CommentatorWriter Bill Mares of Burlington is also a former teacher and state legislator. His most recent book is a collection of his VPR commentaries, titled "3:14 And Out."
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The city of Burlington is polling residents for ideas on how to re-develop Memorial Auditorium, hopefully an easier task than trying to save the hulking鈥� -
Slowly, I edge down the forty-five degree slope, on rain-slick pine needles and maple leaves. I鈥檓 in waders with fishing rod and wading stick in one hand,鈥� -
First, Stephanie Wilkinson, owner of The Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, upset by many of President Trump's policies, asked White House press鈥� -
Normally, I work in the bee yards to escape thinking about the direction of American politics and the state of the world. But this year is different.In鈥�
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From the raising of another Black Lives Matter flag, this time at Brattleboro High School to the opening of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in鈥� -
As both a former high school history teacher and a gun owner, I鈥檇 been trying to decide how the Parkland school tragedy last month might be transformed鈥�
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I wish Americans today might follow the sensible example of an organization I鈥檝e belonged to for quite a few years now. One hundred and forty years ago,鈥�
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Orwell and Churchill were two of my boyhood heroes. Both men regarded politics, not as dirty work, but as an honorable calling, capable of changing the鈥�
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I was lucky. I grew up in a house full of books and often heard my mother say that "Books are the next best thing to friends."I read dictionaries and鈥�
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For 20 years, my license plate read THINK as an injunction to both my students and the general public.My mission was to turn high school students into鈥�
