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This summer and autumn of labor discontent signals not only the rise of a revitalized union movement. It also represents a substantive attempt to shape the forces of technological innovation that promise to transform the American workplace and the...

New Hampshire Republicans expended some time and effort last month trying to gin up alarm over the purported threat of crime posed by people illegally crossing the northern border from Canada. Of this proposition there is scant evidence. But the party...

Lebanon city government continues to distinguish itself by tackling head-on the most pressing issues facing the community. While this kind of activism will not be met with universal favor, in our view it represents the triumph of realism over the...

It’s hard to regard news that Pomfret and Woodstock are closing a couple of the area’s most scenic roads during foliage season as anything but a day of reckoning for our corner of the world, which for decades has sold its soul for the tourist dollar...

Enfield is the latest area town trying to get a handle on short-term rentals — the catch-all term for residential properties that are rented to guests for up to 30 days and which are frequently marketed on such internet platforms as Airbnb and VRBO. A...

The Claremont and Newport school districts made the right call and sent an important message in tightening restrictions on cell phones for the coming academic year. We believe students will benefit socially, emotionally and educationally as they try...

There are points on the political spectrum where the arcs of far right and far left converge: adherence to outlandish conspiracy theories, for one. Another troubling commonality is explored in an alarming new report from PEN America — a nonprofit...

The state Board of Education has paused New Hampshire Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut’s latest attempt to undermine the public schools, but we fear board members will not stay the course.As the New Hampshire Bulletin reported, the board earlier...

The rebirth of small-scale agriculture in Vermont and New Hampshire is one of the most inspiring stories of our time. But undeniable challenges to its sustainability persist, including the unprecedented volatility of weather in a warming climate; the...

The decline and fall of Hanover’s retail empire did not unfold overnight; nor will it be rebuilt in a day, or in the same form. But at least the town’s government, business and college leaders seem to understand the need for a coordinated effort to...

New Hampshire presidential primary voters pride themselves on separating the contenders from the pretenders, and fairly often they succeed. A number of potential candidates who looked strong on paper over the years have instead been exposed in the...

It is no wonder that books are on the front lines of America’s culture wars. They are arguably the most dangerous thing in our national life, notwithstanding that an estimated 16 million Americans own at least one AR-15 semiautomatic rifle.Dangerous...

Vermont is trying to thread the policy needle by promoting, on the one hand, affordable housing and, on the other, land conservation. This experiment, in the form of two bills passed by the Legislature this year, will test the proposition that these...

Question: What kind of a Legislature would pass a $15.2 billion state budget while allowing 6,000 school children to needlessly go hungry at lunch on the theory that it would cost too much to feed them? Answer: The New Hampshire kind.Indeed, the final...

U.S. District Judge Landya McCafferty has imposed a tight deadline on the state of New Hampshire to end the practice of detaining in hospital emergency departments patients involuntarily committed to the mental health system while they wait for...

U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen recently told a Boston television station that New Hampshire voters are too independent-minded to back Donald Trump in 2024. Recalling that Donald Bolduc, a certified conspiracy theorist and election denier, got 44.5% of the...

Given all of Vermont's charms and all of its challenges, state government's continued determination to lavish taxpayer dollars on the attempt to lure new workers to the state is beyond puzzling. These incentives are probably at best a marginal factor...

Members of the Hartford Town Manager Search Committee held five community listening sessions during the past week to identify what skills, characteristics and experience the public wants in a new manager. (We vote for quiet competence, a thick hide...

Why would a prestigious institution endowed with an embarrassment of riches risk embarrassment by trying to get just a little richer? And, can donors to New Hampshire nonprofits be assured that their charitable gifts will be used as intended? These...

One does not have to read the Valley News obituary columns for many days before encountering some such encomium as “he could fix anything,” or “he was never happier than in the presence of a piece of equipment that needed repair.” Indeed, that kind of...