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Editorial: Is Vermont primed to overhaul its schools?
01-17-2025 10:01 PM

All elections have consequences, but some are more consequential than others. Such might be the case with the tax revolt last fall that upended the political order in Montpelier and brought an influx of Republican legislators to the Statehouse. It potentially created the conditions for a major overhaul of K-12 public education in Vermont.

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Editorial: A bad way to implement health care
02-07-2025 10:01 PM

Is this how American health care ends? Not with a bang, but a whimper of assent?


Editorial: Republicans in Concord play game of give and take
01-24-2025 10:01 PM

Of all the legislative maneuvers perfected by Republicans in Concord, the most accomplished is one we like to call the Reverse Robin Hood, in which financial benefits are lavished on the wealthy at the expense of everybody else.


Editorial: Social media is resistant to fact checking
01-10-2025 10:01 PM

Facts are the lifeblood of journalism, so any suggestion that they don’t matter is a grave affront to what is now referred to quaintly as the “legacy news media.” (Which is the only legacy the vast majority of journalists we have encountered over 45 years are likely to inherit.)


Editorial: A president whose star keeps rising
01-03-2025 10:01 PM

The market in presidential reputations rises and falls, like all markets, albeit more slowly and with less volatility. While coverage of Jimmy Carter’s death at the age of 100 late last month has properly celebrated his astonishing post-presidency accomplishments in human rights and public health, there are signs that his term in the Oval Office is being re-evaluated by historians and the general public alike with the hindsight provided by the intervening 40 years. For example, a Gallup poll last year found that 57% of Americans now approve of his presidential performance, compared with about 34% when he left office. How times change.


Editorial: Wanted: A state librarian who’s eager to ban books
12-27-2024 8:21 PM

“The Live Free or Die state seeks a strong leader who is truly passionate about banning books and censoring other library materials. Reporting to the wing-nut caucus of the Legislature and Executive Council, the successful candidate will be...


Editorial: Hartford bike lanes miss mark
12-20-2024 10:01 PM

Unhappily, the Vermont Agency of Transportation’s survey seeking community feedback about this year’s reconstruction of about 4 miles of Route 5 in Hartford from Bugbee Street to the town line with Hartland closed on Dec. 12. Having blown that...


Editorial: Free speech takes a hit in Concord
12-13-2024 10:00 PM

While the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech and religion, all too often these protections boil down the questions of, “Whose speech?” and “Whose religion?”A notable example is the recent holiday display erected in Concord by something known...


Editorial: Sununu and others have questions to answer about state leadership
12-06-2024 10:00 PM

Gov. Chris Sununu is fond of invoking “the New Hampshire Way” in touting the state’s (that is, his) achievements. Notwithstanding this claim of exceptionalism, when it comes to political scandals the New Hampshire way seems not so different from the...


Editorial: Twin State housing advocates need better dialogue with residents
12-01-2024 12:52 PM

Restrictive zoning, inadequate infrastructure, bureaucratic red-tape, high interest rates, soaring construction costs are all implicated in the housing crisis afflicting Vermont and New Hampshire. But we begin to wonder whether one of the most...


Editorial: OneCare’s aversion to transparency
11-22-2024 10:00 PM

Whatever else it was, or is, OneCare Vermont, the state’s only Accountable Care Organization, hasn’t been especially accountable. This is not to mention that its operations have been largely opaque — if not wholly unknown — to average Vermonters,...


Editorial: Republican gains bring some balance back to Montpelier
11-08-2024 10:00 PM

Regular readers will recognize that Republican electoral victories are celebrated but rarely in this space. Today marks an exception that proves the rule: We think Republican gains in the Vermont Legislature hold the potential to restore a healthy and...


Editorial: Vermont needs to look to principles on schools
10-25-2024 10:00 PM

Amid the uproar over the dramatic spike in school taxes many communities experienced this year, the Legislature created the Commission on the Future of Public Education in Vermont. It is charged with studying “the provision of education in Vermont and...


Editorial: So much for ‘community policing’ of protests
09-27-2024 10:00 PM

One of the lingering questions raised by Dartmouth’s hair-trigger response to a fledgling pro-Palestinian protest on the Green last May is why police from all over New Hampshire, including a state police Special Operations Unit outfitted in riot gear,...


Editorial: Returning Dartmouth students are right to be skeptical of administration
09-20-2024 10:01 PM

Reporting by our colleague Frances Mize in last weekend’s edition of the Valley News strongly suggests that Dartmouth students returned to campus last week harboring a healthy distrust of the college’s administration — as well they might. That...


Editorial: Republicans in Concord leave a gun loophole open
09-13-2024 10:01 PM

In the aftermath of last November’s tragedy at New Hampshire Hospital, Gov. Chris Sununu hailed Bradley Haas, the unarmed security guard who was shot and killed there, as “an absolute hero.” That opinion apparently was not shared by Republicans in the...


Editorial: Hartford’s school board needs to find some clarity
09-06-2024 10:01 PM

Defending the indefensible is never an easy proposition, but Hartford School Board members are not doing themselves any favors by responding contemptuously to residents’ misgivings about the lucrative severance package the board conferred on longtime...


Editorial: Conservatives in NH play fast and loose with ed funds
08-30-2024 10:00 PM

Republicans in the New Hampshire Legislature have pushed through several bills this year that are designed, the New Hampshire Bulletin news site informs us, to strengthen fiscal oversight of public schools.In particular, conservative lawmakers have...


Editorial: Rebuilding faith in democracy, beyond Trump
08-23-2024 8:00 PM

In announcing this past week that he would be voting for Kamala Harris in this fall’s presidential election, retired federal appeals court judge J. Michael Luttig denounced Donald Trump as a threat to the very existence of American democracy. As...


Editorial: Hartford school officials need to explain superintendent's departure
07-19-2024 10:00 PM

The Hartford School Board owes the public a much fuller explanation of the circumstances surrounding the recent departure of long-time school Superintendent Tom DeBalsi than the highly implausible version it has provided so far.Thanks to the reporting...


Editorial: Twin States need to stop taking money from children in foster care
07-12-2024 10:00 PM

What kind of a lowlife would steal from orphans and kids with disabilities? Sadly, the answer is not a character in a 19th century novel by Dickens, whose literary indictment of society’s mistreatment of children remains unsurpassed. In this case, the...

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