
Tom Blinkhorn
CommentatorTom Blinkhorn worked for 30 years in international development with the World Bank in Africa, India, and the former Soviet Union. Before that he worked for 12 years as a reporter for US and Canadian newspapers.
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President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker detested each other and made little effort to conceal it. Like today, trade was the…
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I’ve been observing or reporting on Town Meetings in Vermont and New Hampshire since moving to the Upper Valley about 15 years ago. In that time, I’ve…
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Llewelyn Sherman Adams was a flinty Yankee born in Dover, Vermont, who lived most of his life in Lincoln, New Hampshire. And no one ever called him…
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On Monday, December 19, seven prominent citizens – three from Vermont, four in New Hampshire - will assemble in their respective state capitols to…
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At first there were 100 German prisoners of war, eventually 250, housed in nine narrow, wooden buildings surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers in the…
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Last October, on a whim, I emailed David Carr inviting him to speak at a Dartmouth college symposium this coming summer.He didn’t know me from Adam, but I…
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Although it’s well off the beaten track in southern Ontario, next to Quebec and about 200 miles west of Vermont’s northern border, Ottawa, with its…
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I remember my quarantine experience vividly, although I was just a small kid in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. My mother was diagnosed with diphtheria, an…
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Crimea is a troubled peninsula about the size of Vermont that juts into the Black Sea, with a population slightly larger than Vermont and New Hampshire…
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Fifty years ago this week, President Kennedy signed one of the last bills before his assassination, a week later. The bill created what many believe was…