Editorial: The heavy hand of meter regulation in White River Junction

Hartford’s love-hate relationship with parking meters has been a 50-year affair, as our colleague Christina Dolan chronicled in last weekend’s Valley News.The lovers — business owners, planners and elected officials prominent among them — are once...

Column: What it means to be liberal

By WAYNE GERSEN

New Hampshire’s Governorship is one of the few competitive elections in the nation. The campaigns of former GOP senator and state attorney general Kelly Ayotte and Democrat Joyce Craig, former mayor of Manchester, are flooding the airwaves and our...

Column: Cooling the abortion debate

By PAUL MANGANIELLO

Justice Harry Blackmun, who delivered the majority opinion of the US Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade in 1973, humbly stated, “We need not resolve the difficult question of when (human) life begins. When those trained in the respective disciplines of...

Forum for Oct. 11, 2024: Grafton County Commissioner

Grafton County candidateI am asking for your support to become your next Grafton County Commissioner from District 3. I have been a Plymouth resident since 1997 where my husband and I had the privilege of raising our children. I believe I am well...

Forum for Oct. 10, 2024: Vote for Democrats

Vote for RamseySeveral years ago, I was grateful when Margaret Drye appeared at my house with a couple of other members of the Cornish Rescue Squad when I was having a medical emergency. For many years, Margaret has provided a valuable service to our...

Forum for Oct. 9, 2024: Public schools

A vote for public schoolsJoyce Craig is the only choice for governor to keep our public schools. She is a very capable, experienced leader and manager. In her position as mayor of Manchester, she also serves as the chair of the school committee. Joyce...

A Yankee Notebook: A first fall in New England

By WILLEM LANGE

It doesn’t seem possible it was that long ago, but it was. Seventy-four years now; my first autumn in New England. When you’re new to a place, you register everything completely, and with fresh eyes and ears. I had the incredibly good fortune to have...

Column: ‘Do we get more beautiful with age?’

By DIANE ROSTON

I bought this hand-carved salad serving bowl years ago at a farmers market, so long ago that I don’t recall from which town. Over the years, I have filled this bowl with greens, snap peas, carrots, peppers, tossed with my home-made vinaigrette. Food...

Forum for Oct. 8, 2024: Ayotte on abortion

Ayotte’s abortion claimsIn July 2023 when Kelly Ayotte announced her candidacy for governor of New Hampshire, she suddenly reversed her two decade, well-substantiated opposition to abortion rights. Subsequently, when asked a question during a WMUR...

Forum for Oct. 5, 2024: Skate parks

Skate park is not a playgroundSkate parks have not always had a reputation as friendly places for newbies and if you didn’t belong, you didn’t belong. But the times have changed and most parks (like Rusty Berrings in West Lebanon) are a welcoming...

By the Way: Ayotte helped deliver Trump court

By RANDALL BALMER

While the eyes of the nation remain focused on the presidential contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, equally riveting dramas are playing out in various states, including here in New Hampshire.The nation’s governors and gubernatorial...

A Yankee Notebook: Languages open new windows to the world

By WILLEM LANGE

Of all the cultural commentary that floods in here daily on the internet, this little story is one of my favorites. A man standing in a checkout line in a supermarket is talking in a foreign language with someone on his cell phone. The woman standing...

Editorial: Harris’ policy proposals are clearly superior to Trump’s

In endorsing Hillary Clinton for president in this space in 2016, we asked which America voters wanted to live in: Donald Trump’s — full of sound and fury, anxiety ridden and resentment driven, conspiracy-minded and fact averse; or Clinton’s — a world...

Forum for Sept. 30, 2024: Young voters

Note to young votersKnowing more young people get their news online than in a daily paper, this letter is addressed to Upper Valley parents. Do you have a child who will be 18 by Nov. 5? If so, I encourage you to have them register to vote in this...

Editorial: So much for ‘community policing’ of protests

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,...

A Solitary Walker: Fall’s messy metamorphosis

By MICKI COLBECK

The equinox has come— 12 hours of day and 12 of night— as if Vermont were in the tropics. The little brown dogs (LBDs) and I sit on the old velvet couch, which in an earlier life, was red, but has since faded to mauve, and is slouching towards the...

Column: Dartmouth created a problem it has yet to solve

By KELI’I OPULAUOHO

I bleed Green. Like many of you reading this, I have been a Dartmouth College alum longer than I have been or done anything else. It’s not something I assess in terms of trips to Hanover, although there have been many – most recently for Lu’au, Pow...

Forum for Sept. 28, 2024: Ramsey for House

Ramsey for NH HouseRandall Balmer, the John Phillips Professor in Religion at Dartmouth College, writes that public education is one of the two best things about America, the other being church-state separation. The success of 743 write-in votes for...

Forum for Sept. 27, 2024: Barred owls

No call to kill owlsThe recent decision by the US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to kill 452,000 barred owls in the Northwest (“To save native birds, killing of invasive owls to ramp up”; Aug. 31) is both shocking and puzzling. Barred owls have...