Editorials

Editorial: Jolie’s Mastectomy

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Angelina Jolie possesses a good brain, voluptuous beauty and, for now at least, Brad Pitt. Her creative talents, as an actress and film director, as well as her humanitarian work on behalf of poor children the world over, are noteworthy. She lives large — and largely in public view. So when Jolie, 37, announced last week that she had had a double mastectomy earlier this year in a bid to …

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

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

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 bill that would allow a single casino in the southern part of the state, a …

Editorial: Tracking Leverage; Best Method for Detecting Bubbles

Monday, May 20, 2013

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 many investors wondering whether the potential returns are worth the risk. The Standard & Poor’s …

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Oxbow’s Nate Smith slides into home for a run during the Olympians’ home game with Randolph yesterday. Oxbow prevailed in eight innings, 4-3. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

O’s Nip Ghosts

Randolph at Oxbow baseball in Bradford, Vt., on May 21, 2013. Oxbow won, 4-3. (Valley News - Sarah Priestap)

Photo Gallery: Randolph at Oxbow Baseball

In West Fairlee yesterday morning, Shay Paffenroth reaches for the fish she just caught, which she called a “pumpkin seed.” Paffenroth, of West Topsham, Vt., and her husband, David, were fishing in Lake Fairlee for the first time. “A lot of people don’t like catching small fish,” she said, laughing. “I don’t give a damn, as long as I catch something.” (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck)

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Editorial: The Holocaust Museum Turns 20

Friday, April 26, 2013

When the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum opened 20 years ago, there were questions about its mission and whether it belonged so near the Mall. The events took place in Europe; the victims were concentrated in one ethnic group; was this really an American story? Thirty-five million visitors later, …

Editorial: Dartmouth Dimensions; A Teachable Moment for the College

Thursday, April 25, 2013

It’s not all that often that demonstrators have the satisfaction of seeing the ills they are protesting against confirmed in the reaction to their protest. But that is precisely the case with a group of about 15 Dartmouth College students who disrupted a campus event over the weekend …

Editorial: A Criminal Matter; ‘Enemy Combatant’ Label Doesn’t Fit

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Barely had Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, been taken into custody last week when four Republican lawmakers — U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and John McCain of Arizona along with U.S. Rep. Peter King of …

Editorial: Hoppy Daze In Vermont

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Yes! Yes! Yes! We’re barely able to restrain ourselves from doubling up on the exclamation points. What could possibly prompt this uncharacteristically exuberant burst of editorial optimism — or, more accurately, this exuberant burst of uncharacteristic editorial optimism? It’s heady news on the beer front: Vermont is making …

Editorial: Feeding the Hungry

Monday, April 22, 2013

The United States has a proud tradition of supplying food aid to hungry people around the world, whether their plight is due to chronic poverty or sudden natural disaster. Still, food aid was never a purely altruistic exercise. In 1954, President Dwight D. Eisenhower kicked off the program …

Editorial: Military Strategy; Questions Emerge About Basing of F-35s

Sunday, April 21, 2013

A Boston Sunday Globe story last week raised questions about whether the Air Force’s decision to base the nation’s first Air National Guard squadron of F-35 fighter jets in Vermont was made not on the merits but rather to cultivate the state’s influential senior U.S. senator, Patrick Leahy. …

Editorial: Ayotte’s Vote; Senator Owes Voters an Explanation

Monday, April 22, 2013

Members of Congress are representatives, not proxies. They are expected to consult their constituents and act in their best interests, but not necessarily to submit to their wishes. There are times when elected officials defy popular sentiment by …

Editorial: Media Bias and Abortion; Lessons From the Gosnell Trial

Friday, April 19, 2013

The murder trial of Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion provider, entered its fifth week Monday riding a peculiar media firestorm. The focus of much attention in recent days was not on Gosnell, who is charged in the death of seven babies and an adult patient who died of …

Editorial: Hungry For Justice; Guantanamo Remains an Outrage

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Military officials apparently are very frustrated with the growing number of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison who are participating in a hunger strike — more than 40 of the 166 prisoners at last count. Their most recent grievance concerns searches of their Qurans for contraband, a procedure …

Editorial: Aftermath of a Tragedy; Reacting to the Attack in Boston

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

When the unfathomable happens, as it did in horrifying fashion near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday, it is only human nature to try to fathom it — to ask who would do such a thing …

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Editorial: Jolie’s Mastectomy

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O’s Nip Ghosts

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