Madeleine M. 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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It was a different time 鈥� June 10, 1940 鈥� when my widowed mother and I, and my brother, walked down the plank of the S.S. Manhattan onto the New York City鈥� -
We had just crossed the border from Canada into the United States when we saw a long line of cars heading the other way.Cars crept on and on for miles.鈥�
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Sally wakes up at 7 am crying. She has a 102 fever and a sore throat. Her Mom is supposed to be at work at 8:30. There is no earned sick day policy in鈥�
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The right to vote is the core of democracy. The word is out. Voter turnout will be low in this mid-term election. Vermont will not be an exception. But we鈥�
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It鈥檚 time to accept the fact that there is little stigma to single parenthood. 鈥淏orn out of wedlock鈥� is a phrase seldom heard today. More than 40 percent鈥�
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Poetry isn鈥檛 dead. It鈥檚 kept alive by the 45 state poet laureates - and who knows how many city and county laureates. Vermont claimed Robert Frost in鈥�
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It doesn鈥檛 seem to make sense that the small state of Vermont should have 255 school districts, each with their own school boards and superintendents. But鈥�
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鈥淲hy did Chris die?鈥� Richard Martinez asked all of us after the shooting death of his son and five other students on the University of California, Santa鈥�
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I鈥檓 sick of winter. I hear that refrain in the locker room, on the sidewalk, and in the grocery store. Except of course, for the skiers. They couldn鈥檛 be鈥�
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The American Dream has been the back bone of my life story. In June of 1940, my mother, brother and I took the train from Zurich, Switzerland to Genoa ,鈥�
