Opinion

A Yankee Notebook: Spectating at spring’s arrival

By WILLEM LANGE

This is written in the last days of April. From my office window, the yard and the field and the woods beyond seem to be catching their breath before tackling what’s always come next. Out back, the air on this sunny day is alive with birdsong. So far...

Forum for May 8, 2024: Dartmouth protests

Dartmouth rejects its protest historyAs a member of Dartmouth College’s class of 1977, I was shocked and disappointed to hear about the arrests of 90 students and community members, including two professors, the evening of May 1 in a violent action by...

Forum for May 7, 2024: Pregnancy an inconvenience?

A brief inconvenience?Recently, I spoke with my local state representative about her anti-abortion views, and that conversation made it even clearer to me that many of our current politicians fail to see the long­ term impacts of their actions. One...

Forum for May 6, 2024: Darmouth’s climate plan

Dartmouth’s big green planOn Earth Day, President Sian Beilock announced the Dartmouth Climate Collaborative — an approach to addressing climate change that integrates “academic enterprise, campus operations, and community engagement.” Over the next...

Forum for May 4, 2024: A daughter’s grace

The meaning of graceI’m writing to thank you for publishing a recent article related to the murders of Susanne and Half Zantop (“Victims’ daughter responds with grace”; April 19). This article by John Lippman moved me deeply by its recognition of...

The tragedy of evangelical anti-feminism

By RANDALL BALMER

I wish I could say that the death of Beverly LaHaye on April 14 signaled the end of an era, but I’m afraid that’s not the case.Please understand that I’m not reveling in her demise (or anyone else’s), but she together with antifeminist Phyllis...

Column: Act 76 is transforming child care in Vermont

By SITHEMBISO MUHLAURI and TAMMIE AB HAZLETT

Last year, we came together as child care program owners and early childhood educators from around Vermont to sound the alarm on the dire state of Vermont’s child care system. Pandemic-era federal funding was running out, and we were facing the...

Forum for May 3, 2024: Newport senior housing

Approve Newport senior housingNewport has an opportunity to provide desperately needed housing for our senior citizens at a reasonable rent (“Zoning board delays senior housing vote”; April 22). The housing would be designed with seniors in mind and...

Forum for May 2, 2024: Sununu and ‘reality TV’

Sununu and ‘reality TV’After enthusiastically endorsing the odious warmonger, Nikki Haley, Chris Sununu now apparently refers to the charges against Donald Trump as “reality TV.”I wouldn’t stop there. I’d call them show trials. They’re persecutions of...

Forum for May 1, 2024: Sununu’s choice

No respect for SununuOn April 14, on the ABC This Week television show, Gov. Chris Sununu expressly endorsed Trump, as follows:“Just to sum up,” Stephanopoulos said, “You support (Trump) for president even if he’s convicted in (the) classified...

A Yankee Notebook: Old age and the way the world moves on

By WILLEM LANGE

The dying day breeze stirs only the treetops, and an evening stillness descends upon the woods. I sit on a bench in the park, as quiet myself as our surroundings. Kiki, restless as ever, alternates between the bench and my lap and short sniffing...

Forum for April 30, 2024: Briggs Opera House

How the Briggs Opera House worksA recent Art Notes (“JAG regroups with theater series”; April 18) presented mistaken information about the Briggs Opera House and its availability to community users in recent years. Until 2021, the owner (Gates-Briggs...

Column: On opposing America’s war machine

By BRANDON SMITH

I’m one of three newer members of the Hartford Selectboard. I’m going to explain why I voted last month against posting a dozen or more banners featuring veterans on poles in downtown White River Junction for six months out of the year.This is my...

Forum for April 22, 2024: Sununu and Trump

A shameful display from SununuI listened to the interview where Gov. Sununu now supports Donald Trump for president, despite the facts that Trump is a convicted fraudster and is now facing a multitude of criminal charges, including his attempt to...

Column: New Hampshire educators’ concerns must not be disregarded

By JANET WARD

On April 11, at the State Board of Education’s second public hearing on Commissioner of Education Frank Edelblut’s revisions of the 306 Rules which govern New Hampshire’s public schools, Board Chairman Drew Cline gave all those present an amazing...

Editorial: Parker parole a reminder of how violence reshapes our lives

The murders of Half and Susanne Zantop in 2001 not only imposed untold and unending grief on the family, friends and Dartmouth colleagues of the two professors, but also altered the psyche of the Upper Valley in ways perhaps not fully understood even...

A Yankee Notebook: What will karma have in store for Trump?

By WILL LANGE

Many of us are familiar with archy and mehitabel (more of us ought to be), a collection of essays, stories, and poetry written by archy, a cockroach with literary instincts and talents who’s been condemned to a life as a cockroach for the crime of...

Editorial: Chris Sununu’s moral vacuum

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu’s conversion from “Never Trump” to “Ever Trump” occurred not on the road to Damascus but on the Republican Party’s road to perdition.On ABC News last Sunday, Sununu affirmed his intention to support Donald Trump for...

Column: Vermont needs to address its entire education system

By RICK DUSTIN-EICHLER

Vermonters love to talk about the weather. Regardless of the social situation, conversations rarely start without some reference to past, current or future conditions. As the old Mark Twain saying goes, “if you don’t like the weather in New England,...