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News that U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire will not seek re-election in 2026 is widely regarded as a serious blow to Democratic hopes of retaking control of that chamber, where Republicans now hold a 53-47 majority.

While America slept, Major League Baseball’s regular season dawned in the Land of the Rising Sun, where the Los Angeles Dodgers swept a pair of games from the Chicago Cubs at the Tokyo Dome a full week before the other 28 teams get into action this coming Thursday.

Gov. Kelly Ayotte is applauding the application by New Hampshire State Police to take on immigration enforcement duties for the Trump administration. We fear that this will not be a one-act play and that it will end in tragedy.

Before Vice President JD Vance arrived in Vermont for a ski trip with his family at Sugarbush Resort last weekend, Gov. Phil Scott issued a statement that read in part, “I hope Vermonters remember the vice president is here on a family trip with his young children and, while we may not always agree, we should be respectful. Please join me in welcoming them to Vermont.”

Four voices in the wilderness.

It was perfectly predictable — perhaps inevitable — that the Hartford Heroes Banners project would create discord. There’s bound to be conflict when a town allows public property to become a billboard for the expression of private groups’ opinions, even if the intention is to honor military veterans and first-responders.

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

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.

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.

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.)

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.

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...