Madeleine Kunin
CommentatorMadeleine May Kunin is a former governor of Vermont, and author of "The New Feminist Agenda, Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work and Family," published by Chelsea Green.
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Lower the voting age to sixteen was the surprising proposal of a symposium I participated in at Oxford University 鈥� with no dissent among the鈥� -
Congratulations Vermont.We鈥檝e become the fifth state to guarantee three earned sick days per year after a two-year phase in. Here鈥檚 what that means for鈥�
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Summer is so short, and winter is so long. I didn鈥檛 want August to hurry by. The hot months were an excuse for laziness. For leisurely lunches holding鈥�
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The world is getting older. Imagine a graph that looks like a steep mountain trail. We鈥檙e climbing at a rapid rate to an unprecedented increase in the鈥�
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Whenever I鈥檓 invited to come back to the Vermont State House I experience both the familiar and the new. The golden dome still sparkles in the sun against鈥�
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鈥淚 can鈥檛 breathe,鈥� were the last words we heard from 43 year old Eric Garner who died from a policeman鈥檚 chokehold on a Staten Island sidewalk. None of us鈥�
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Let鈥檚 talk about it. Let鈥檚 stop whispering about mental illness and suicide. Two suicides - one close to home, Cheryl Hanna who many of us had known and鈥�
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It sounds like a Grimm鈥檚 fairy tale, only it is grimly true. The abduction of some 276 Nigerian girls in the middle of the night, by a terrorist鈥�
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I rummaged through the Lost and Found box in the gym. It smells of old sneakers, unwashed socks, faded shorts. Could I find my bathing suit here? Perhaps,鈥� -
The first time I visited the Vermont State House way back in 1962, I had a three month old baby who was sleeping in the car bed - this was before super鈥�
