Editorial: Still a Bad Bet; N.H. House to Vote on Casino Bill

Casino gambling is likely to come up for a vote in the New Hampshire House this week, and it appears to have a better chance of passing than in any of the numerous previous attempts. Although a special House committee narrowly voted last week to recommend killing a …

Editorial: Tracking Leverage; Best Method for Detecting Bubbles

Are the easy-money policies of the world’s central banks setting financial markets up for a crash? We would have a much better idea if we measured how much of the buying is being done with borrowed money. In recent months, soaring prices of stocks and bonds have left …

Editorial: Hassan’s Pitch; N.H. Seeks Connecticut’s Help

Interesting letter that New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan wrote to Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, and not just because one state’s chief executive was weighing in on pending legislation in another state. The letter raised a number of challenging questions about energy strategy. Connecticut legislators are struggling to tweak …

• Letter: A Regional Strategy on Energy
• Letter: Alter Northern Pass to Benefit N.H.

Editorial: Everyone’s Rite; Tsarnaev Deserved a Decent Burial

Ultimately, the burial of Tamerlan Tsarnaev will be nothing more than a footnote to the Boston Marathon bombing and its aftermath. But as attentive readers know, footnotes sometimes tell a story of their own, one slightly different from the main narrative. Much has been made, and justly so, …

Editorial: Hospital Charges; Federal Data Reveal Wide Variation

The federal government’s recent release of data that showed wide disparity in hospital pricing did not break new ground — the variation in what individual hospitals charge for procedures has been well established for some time now. But even among those who have come to expect the U.S. …

Editorial: Targeting Journalists; Probe Likely to Have Chilling Effect

It’s no secret that the Obama administration has moved aggressively to punish those who leak classified information to the news media. At last count, six current or former government officials have been indicted in leak inquiries, double the number charged by previous administrations combined. What was a secret, …

Editorial: Sequester Victims; Flyers Spared But Preschoolers Aren’t

At the end of last month, Congress moved swiftly to eliminate flight delays caused by the $85 billion in across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester. As we noted at the time, there was remarkable unanimity on the need to end furloughs of air traffic controllers, which had …

Editorial: Boardroom Politics; Companies Should Disclose Political Donations

Two years ago, an idiosyncratic band of 10 law professors wrote to the Securities and Exchange Commission asking it to require public companies “to disclose to shareholders the use of corporate resources for political activities.” Their immodest proposal has since become a popular cause: The proposed rule has …

Editorial: Ayotte’s Preference; Senator Focuses on Mental Health

Many of her constituents remain incensed about Sen. Kelly Ayotte’s failure to support expanded background checks for gun purchases, but the New Hampshire Republican is standing her ground. She says she’s more interested in fixing the existing system, which she regards as seriously broken because very few people …

Editorial: Latin’s Lovers; The ‘Dead Language’ Lives

Generations of high school Latin scholars will recall this bit of verse, sometimes inscribed by a predecessor in the front of a textbook: Latin is a dead language/As dead as dead can be/First it killed the Romans/And now it’s killing me. As poetry it didn’t have much to …