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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While co-authoring a recent book about Vermont and presidential politics, I come up with an idea that could neatly shorten the Democratic selection… -
Over the long holiday weekend, many small parades and ceremonies throughout the state began or ended under the watchful gaze of uniformed Civil War… -
A proposed new law with 60+ co-sponsors to address neonicitinoid pesticide use in Vermont has certainly struck an ecological nerve. Bill H-205 responds to… -
Just this week, superstar cellist Yo Yo Ma made headlines again when he surprised a small group of onlookers with an outdoor, informal performance in… -
In his new film the acclaimed New Zealand film director and producer of Lord of the Rings, Sir Peter Jackson, has all but raised the dead – by means of… -
I was in Kennebunkport to interview George Bush senior for a book on presidents who fished. As former First Lady Barbara Bush waved cheerfully from the… -
In my first week as a cub police reporter in Chicago, when I called in to ask the night editor, Arnold Dornfeld, “What do you have for me?" he replied… -
When Matt Damon recently satirized Brett Kavanaugh on Saturday Night Live as a "keg half-full kind of guy" I realized our new Supreme Court Justice’s many… -
It all started when we won a stay at a 150 year old house on Isle la Motte that coincided with the island’s annual Teddy Roosevelt Day - sponsored by… -
Seems like we’ve barely reacted to one wave of bad news these days when the next one breaks over us – reminding me of the '60's musical and film Stop the…
