Opinion
Column: Robert Frost connects the local to the global
By NARAIN BATRA
Last June in a White House meeting, President Joe Biden gave India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi an extraordinary gift, an autographed first edition copy of the “Collected Poems of Robert Frost,” one of America’s greatest poets.Modi responded with an...
Column: Construction waste dump is wrong for Claremont
By JIM CONTOIS, REB MACKENZIE, NELIA SARGENT, JUDITH KOESTER and HAYLEY JONES
Claremont residents have a long history of resisting dangerous pollution, protecting the health of our most vulnerable neighbors, and fighting for the thriving economy that we all deserve. Given that we spent decades organizing to shut down a...
Forum for March 23, 2024: Lebanon firehouse project
What’s the tax impact of Lebanon’s firehouse project?The new Lebanon fire station project discussed at Monday’s Planning Board meeting is estimated to cost three and a half times the $10 million proposed by the School Board a few years ago for a new...
Column: Only the US has the clout to end the war in Gaza
By ARTHUR HOLCOMBE
The Biden Administration remains committed to the ability of Israel to defend itself, and to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state able to improve the prospects for its people living peacefully in close proximity to Israel. The...
Column: Dartmouth isn’t prosecuting student protesters
By JUSTIN ANDERSON
Newspaper editorial boards are entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts. This paper’s editorial, “Dartmouth’s puzzling prosecution of protesters,” is sloppy at best and, perhaps more likely given its recent...
Forum for March 22, 2024: VT-ALERT
Sign up for VT-ALERTI encourage everyone living in Vermont, or who spends time there, who is not already signed up to VT-ALERT to do so.Vermont Emergency Management launched VT-ALERT in 2013 as a means of reaching Vermonters directly with emergency...
Forum for March 21, 2024: Dartmouth sports
Dartmouth needs sportsNick Boke (“Union Vote gives Dartmouth room to dream,” March 14) is correct in suggesting that the attempt by Dartmouth College’s men’s basketball players to form a labor union offers an opportunity for the college to...
A Yankee Notebook: Travel generally involves some tension
By WILLEM LANGE
This coming Saturday morning, a Boeing 737 Max 8 bound for Denver will be taking off (or at least is scheduled to be taking off) from Logan Airport at 7:19 a.m. This means that my intrepid traveling companion, Bea, and I need to be at the United...
Forum for March 20, 2024: Vote for democracy
Let’s vote for democracyAs the world’s superpower, the U.S. has two systems that contradict each other: democracy and capitalism.Democracy operates as a public system of collaboration; capitalism as a private system of competition. Both operate within...
Forum for March 19, 2024: Paid leave in Vermont
Paid leave is overdueAs a mother of two who experienced the value of paid leave, I hope Vermont legislators pass a universal paid family and medical leave program this year.Paid leave after the birth of my children afforded me time I could never get...
Editorial: Dartmouth’s puzzling prosecution of protesters
It’s a great mystery why Dartmouth College, the new home of “brave spaces” for public debate, continues to pursue the criminal prosecution of a pair of peaceful pro-Palestinian student protesters accused of trespassing on their own campus.The mystery...
Column: Vermont should stop sending public money to private schools
By G. GREGORY HUGHES
The Common Benefits Clause of the Vermont Constitution provides “that government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection and security of the people, nation, or community, and not for the particular emolument or advantage of...
Forum for March 16, 2024: Vermont conservation
Vermont delegation’s conservation recordI am writing to express my gratitude for the Vermont Congressional delegation’s impressive scores on the recently-released League of Conservation Voters’ 2023 National Environmental Scorecard. As the chair of...
Column: Public school equity is going to require more funding
By WAYNE GERSEN
Two recent Valley News’ editorials focused on what it called Vermont’s “education funding mess.” Vermont’s education funding is a mess, but a mess that is hardly unique to Vermont. It is not unlike New Hampshire’s “education funding mess” or the...
Column: The burning world and cares close to home
By MARY K. OTTO
Chugging up the sunny hillside toward home after our usual morning walk in the woods, my husband and I entered our warm cottage. It felt good on a 13-degree Vermont day, in contrast to the previous day’s 55 degrees We hung up our heavy coats and moved...
Column: Grieving for Palestinians and the dream of Israel
By DOV TAYLOR and JUDITH TAYLOR
In June 1967, after quickly defeating Egypt, Jordan and Syria in what has come to be known as the Six-Day War, Israel began a military and economic occupation of the Palestinian territories — the West Bank of the Jordan River and the Gaza Strip. What...
Column: Basketball union vote gives Dartmouth room to dream
By NICHOLAS BOKE
Finally, a well-known American college can act like a college.Now that Dartmouth’s men’s basketball team has voted to unionize, and the college has countered that “the students on the men’s basketball team are not in any way employed by Dartmouth,”...
Forum for March 14, 2024: NH school funding
NH must solve its school funding crisisAs a concerned New Hampshire resident, I’m deeply troubled by the inequitable distribution of education funding. The current system, which relies overwhelmingly on local property taxes, perpetuates disparities...
Column: New Hampshire should support Palestinian freedom
By AHLAM ABUAWAD
Two years ago, New Hampshire declared May 21 Ona Marie Judge Day. Doing so, our state honored the woman who fled enslavement by our first president, George Washington, and bravely boarded a ship for New Hampshire.The story of Ona Judge exposes the...
A Yankee Notebook: Our fixation on age is getting kind of old
By WILLEM LANGE
It’s likely the unavoidable fate of both teenagers and golden-agers that most news reporters and writers are aspiring 20-somethings eager to make splashes. Thus, if a young person with a newly minted driver’s license loses control of their vehicle on...
