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By MARC B. SCHAUBER

Act 127 of 2022, the law that corrected 25 years of injustice in our education funding system, is a good law. It allows all children in Vermont to receive an excellent education regardless of their background or zip code, all while supporting local...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

Another New Hampshire presidential primary is in the books, and some political prognosticators are quick to proclaim that the Granite State’s storied first-in-the-nation primary and cherished candidate-to-voter retail-style campaigning are both on...

By STEVE TAYLOR

Erling Heistad came to Lebanon from Norway in 1923 and in a matter of a few months he set off a half century’s worth of excitement that would eventually establish a local Golden Age of what had been an obscure Scandinavian sport, ski jumping. For...

By MICKI COLBECK

It is Imbolc, the time for lambing, seed catalogues, and garden sketches. Groundhogs and bears are stirring. The sun lingers on the western hills, listing just a bit more to the north each afternoon. We are at the halfway point between the longest...

By BEN HOOKE

ORFORD — At small high schools across Vermont and New Hampshire, coaches can often be few and far between, and many of them have to stretch to help maintain active varsity and junior varsity teams at their schools.At Rivendell Academy, however, this...

By JULIE KIM and FRANCES LIM-LIBERTY

New Hampshire lawmakers are currently debating a bill that would take away the ability and rights of parents to make informed decisions about their child’s health care. This bill is HB 619 and, on its surface, it might seem like it “protects...

By WILLEM LANGE

Hagar and I dove into the big rotary at the foot of the Nahant Causeway, trying to judge the volume of traffic on a Sunday noon. The friendly voice of Siri spoke to me in her Irish accent from the dashboard: “At the roundabout, take the first exit...

By WILLEM LANGE IV

Clack, clack, clackety, ding, zzzzut, clunk. Clackclack clackety-clack… That onomatopoetic rhythm is tattooed in my memory of the 1970s more clearly than the Vietnam War, the Peanut Farmer President, or even the Beatles. Up in the attic loft there...

By PAUL STEINHAUSER

How much Chris Christie’s 2024 exit is impacting the race for the Republican presidential nomination depends on where you are.On the day after he dropped out, the candidate who benefited most from the former New Jersey governor’s departure – former...

By BEN HOOKE

HANOVER — The last few seasons have not been kind to the Dartmouth men’s hockey program. After pandemic disruptions and middling results, the Big Green appeared to bottom out last season, winning just 5 of 30 games and finishing in the basement of the...

By STEVE TAYLOR

It was 36 years ago, back when Lebanon was largely a moderate Republican bastion, and Karen Wadsworth was an up and coming figure in New Hampshire GOP politics. One day she hosted a good-sized gathering of the GOP faithful at her home on Bank...

By RANDALL BALMER

In the late 1980s, while I was teaching at Columbia University, I received an urgent request to attend a meeting at Union Theological Seminary. I don’t recall everyone who was in the room, but the half dozen or so in attendance included several...

By ARTHUR HOLCOMBE

A New Year should be a time for looking ahead and a time for hope. Securing peace and hope requires us to unite to stop the terrible slaughter in the Middle East before this killing drags us all into yet another world war. We can unite by building on...

By SCOTT BROWN

The resignation of University of Pennsylvania President, Elizabeth Magill, apparently the result of pressure from wealthy donors, is a dire warning to those who cherish free speech and academic freedom. Prior to her testimony before Congress on Dec....

By WILLEM LANGE

The narration, a modern version of the second chapter of Luke, began the old familiar Christmas story. Mary and Joseph shuffled down the church aisle on cue, Mary cuddling a bundle clearly intended to be the baby Jesus, and Joseph strangely...

By STEVE TAYLOR

Talk about all the things that have changed in the Upper Valley since, well, 1950 — the interstates, the rising influence of Dartmouth College and its ever-expanding health care colossus, disappearance of textile mills and hill farms, staggering gains...

By NARAIN BATRA

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a mighty technological force, transforming various aspects of our lives. With its potential to automate tasks, improve efficiency, and help us make complex decisions, collaborative AI holds great promises...

By STEVE NELSON

Even after 57 years it seems incomprehensible. My high school friend and swimming teammate Fred West was killed in Vietnam, only a few weeks into his tour of duty.Fred was a year behind me in high school and, as we were not particularly close, I was...

By MIKE DONOGHUE

BURLINGTON — A White River Junction man, who remains the primary suspect in the fatal shooting of a Windsor County teenager five years ago, has been jailed after he tested positive for drugs and failed to report to his federal probation officer, court...

By RANDALL BALMER

Catholic fundamentalism is on the rise. Who knew? Although the term has since been applied to other religious traditions — Islamic fundamentalism, Hindu fundamentalism, Jewish fundamentalism — the word fundamentalism derives from a series of pamphlets...