Deborah Lee Luskin
CommentatorDeborah Lee Luskin is a writer, speaker and educator.
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I was enjoying an article by political historian Michael Kazin in a recent issue of The New York Times Magazine about the term 鈥減opulist鈥� in American鈥�
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While Act 46 aims to meet the challenges of declining school population, it has also increased educators鈥� concerns for job security, parents鈥� concern for鈥�
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As Moderator of Newfane鈥檚 Town Meeting, I鈥檝e learned it鈥檚 impossible to predict what will become a bone of contention on which the body politic will gnaw.鈥�
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More than half the world鈥檚 population already lives in urban areas, which may help explain why we humans are spending so much time sitting indoors.Cold鈥�
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As saddened as I was by the terrorist bombing in Sultanahmet Square in Turkey last week, I also felt enormous relief. The bombing took place on a Tuesday;鈥�
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A kindergarten teacher once taught me a game that I play all the time in my adult life. It鈥檚 called The Good Thing, and it鈥檚 a way to make the best of a鈥�
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When I was eighteen, so was the drinking age. My friends and I drank our parents鈥� booze in each others鈥� homes. One icy December night I was on my way home鈥�
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Like most Vermonters, I spend a fair amount of time driving though Vermont鈥檚 beautiful and largely forested landscape. As a result, I tend to think of the鈥�
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For the past thirty-one years I鈥檝e stayed out of the woods in November. Every rifle season during deer hunting, I鈥檝e donned blaze orange to walk the dog鈥�
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I鈥檓 piqued that leaf peepers come peeking at peak foliage on the Green Mountain pinnacles as if nature were a spectator sport and autumn the champion鈥�