Bill Seamans covered the world as a correspondent for ABC News for many years. In this commentary, he reflects on the toll those years have taken.

All This week VPR Commentators are looking at the state of education. Listen during All Things Considered for this special commentary series.

After viewing a recent exhibit of photographs in Rutland, commentator Tom Slayton has been thinking about cameras, everyday life, and lasting images.

An advocacy group says there are 15,700 fewer jobs in Vermont now than there were at the start of the recession

When Lilly Ledbetter learned her male coworkers were paid more for doing equal work, she filed a complaint and began a wage discrimination debate that landed in the Supreme Court. Ledbetter appeared at Vermont Technical College with Senator Patrick Leahy on Saturday, October 17th.

David Walker, the nation's top auditor for several presidential administrations, is a vocal critic of wasteful government spending.

We'll talk about how - and if - the federal economic stimulus is working.

Listen to Paul Roberts, author of "The End of Food," at 8 Monday evening.   Roberts spoke at UVM as part of the George D Aiken Lecture Series last week.  Hear his dicussion about the shortcomings of our food system and what you can do to make it more sustainable. 

In this special series, scholars and surviving Japanese family members who were interned in camps during World War II discuss the internment experience.

Vermont Woman Newspaper brought feminist and author Gloria Steinem to Burlington June 11th in celebration of the Magazine's sixth year and Steinem's 75th birthday.

Bernie Sanders wants to know why Vermont gas prices are still higher than the rest of the country; Ski resorts look forward to the season; Demand rises for heating assistance; and commentator Mary Barosse-Schwartz on a localvore Thankgiving.

VPR reporters Bob Kinzel and Ross Sneyd discuss the week's top stories.

VT delegation hop to double low heating assistance money; VSAC loans for college students are going down.  U.S. Border Patrol officer fired shots in a scuffle in the woods at the Derby Line; Aabama authorities file child pornography charges against Brooke Bennett's former stepfather; commentator Philip Baruth on life, art and the Pixar film WALL-E.

Record high temperatures in the Northeast this week have people turning on air conditioners, breaking out the bathing suits and looking for a cool place to escape the heat. But VPR's Tim Johnson says that after this past winter, it can't get hot enough.

Many prime time television shows are returning to the air this week with new episodes. And Burlington comic Martha Tormey is pretty happy about it. She explains how imagining a TV show about her life gets her through boring moments.

the Herald of Randolph recently invited readers to submit poems about potholes.  This week's Herald contains a selection of odes written to the bane of Vermont drivers.  Here are just a few:

All this week, VPR has been reporting on the state of Vermont's roads after one of the worst winters. Today, commentator, storyteller and contractor Willem Lange is here with the lighter side.

VPR's Tim Johnson has found out his recent flu bug is a popular conversation starter and he wants to know who gave it to him.

Today, commentator Cyndy Bittinger tells how one of the best books about farm life in Vermont in the 1940s came to be written by a German refugee.

The way Martha Tormey sees it, how we drive says something about who we are - and there's a particular driving habit that clearly gets on the Vermont comedian's nerves.

Commentator Cheryl Hanna is a professor at Vermont Law School in South Royalton, and a few weeks ago, she had an experience that has made her re-examine how Vermonters are reacting to the high-profile murder cases recently in the news.

Christmas lights still up around the house?  Wreath on the door?  Tree in the living room?  VPR's Tim Johnson says it's time to let go.

The U.S. auto industry will appeal a federal judge's ruling in Vermont that said states could regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles; Senator Patrick Leahy says he'll oppose the nomination of Attorney General designee Michael Mukasey if the nominee doesn't disavow the torture policies developed by the Bush Administration; A California company wants to launch a new methadone treatment center in Berlin; Vermont's plan to use small rail cars on its portion of the Amtrak Vermonter route may have hit a snag; Vermont sportsmen are going to help maintain and improve some of the state's wildlife management areas; Hunters can expect to find big deer this season, and commentator Olin Robison on the conflict in Myanmar.

Both of Vermont's U.S. Senators say they're concerned that the Bush Administration may be planning military actions against Iran; It may be a particularly good foliage season for businesses in Vermont; The Vermont ski industry is concerned that a change in federal law could resorts short of workers this winter; A former Vermont State Police trooper will serve time in jail after pleading no contest to charges that he assaulted a teenager; Construction is starting on the busiest section of Interstate 89; and commentator Olin Robison on what the outcome of the war in Iraq could to us, Iraq and Iran.

Progressive Anthony Pollina is moving closer to becoming a candidate for Governor in 2008; Vermont students have outperformed their peers around the country in reading and math; Federal health experts will be in Vermont on Wednesday to hear concerns about chloramine; Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff will be in Vermont Wednesday to meet with Governor Jim Douglas; and commentator David Moats reflects on how seasons give definition to our lives.