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A Yankee Notebook: Among the crowds on vacation out West

03-27-2024 9:30 AM

By WILLEM LANGE

Our cab arrived at 4:40 a.m. on the dot and deposited us at the entrance to United Airlines about 5:30. Check-in was amazingly easy, and the trek to our gate likewise. We took off from Logan also on the dot — it seems to be true that the earlier in...


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Column: No one should be bullied because they stutter

03-26-2024 3:53 PM

By KENDRA LaROCHE

Recently there has been an increase of ableist bullying of people who stutter after a former president mocked President Joe Biden’s stuttering in the State of the Union address. This bullying is a result of our ableist culture. Here are some ways to...


Forum for March 26, 2024: ‘Moral compass?’

03-26-2024 3:52 PM

Whose ‘moral compass?’A recent op-ed (“There must be room for debate on Palestine,” March 12) begins by stating dialogue is important and then goes on to say “Yet, the Israel lobby and supporting groups are working overtime to ... suppress any...


Column: Israel’s history enables its self-defense

03-25-2024 12:37 PM

By PHILIP J. KINSLER

Rashoman’s elephant is a tool to teach multiple perspectives. Several persons hold a part of an elephant and describe the animal. The person holding the ear … “It is soft, fluffy, cuddly.” With the trunk “it is powerful, maneuverable, dangerous.”...


Editorial: Baseball season opens amid a farewell to arms

03-22-2024 9:31 PM

With Opening Day* of the Major League Baseball season right around the corner, we sing today, as did the poet Virgil, of arms and the man — specifically the arms of pitchers and injuries to them.First, though, let us dispose of the Boston Red Sox, as...


Column: Robert Frost connects the local to the global

03-22-2024 3:10 PM

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

03-22-2024 3:05 PM

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

03-22-2024 3:05 PM

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

03-22-2024 2:21 PM

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

03-22-2024 2:20 PM

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

03-22-2024 2:19 PM

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

03-21-2024 10:50 AM

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

03-20-2024 12:16 PM

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

03-20-2024 12:16 PM

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

03-19-2024 5:02 PM

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

03-15-2024 9:48 PM

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

03-15-2024 5:29 PM

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

03-15-2024 5:26 PM

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

03-15-2024 5:26 PM

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

03-15-2024 5:26 PM

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...



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