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By RANDALL BALMER

Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, a Religious Right organization, has a history of involvement with the Ku Klux Klan in his home state of Louisiana. In 1996, while running the unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign of his friend and...

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,...

By NARAIN BATRA

A few years ago, I was on a return flight from New Delhi to Paris and New York, when the chief flight attendant suddenly broke up the humming silence and asked passengers to ring the call bell if anyone was a doctor. One physician, a tall and handsome...

By LAILA ABDO VOLLE

In Lebanon, this month we have celebrated the Week of the Young Child, which concludes with schoolwide events this week. I am a mother of three daughters, a 5-year-old and twin 2-year-olds, yet I find it impossible to embrace Lebanon’s Week of the...

By LARRY SATCOWITZ

Act 250, Vermont’s visionary development statute, is over 50 years old. It is often credited as one of the primary reasons that our landscape looks the way it does. The law has been changed here and there over the years but is long overdue for a more...

By SUSAN HOLCOMBE

Do you think that policy governing how New Hampshire schools run is made by local, elected school boards and perhaps by the Legislature? Think again. We are about to see some radical changes in rules for public schools. These are changes that will...

By FRANCES B. LIM LIBERTY, KEITH J. LOUD and JESSICA A. SMITH

Across the country, politicized misinformation and disinformation is being used to misrepresent transgender and gender-nonconforming youth. For example, the term “Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria” (ROGD) is being used in social and traditional media to...

By BILL HUFF

Our state is facing multiple crises, mostly self-inflicted, the result of policies enacted by a Democratic supermajority made up of activists who are either out of touch with the real needs of Vermonters or too wrapped up in their own ideology to...

By MIKE SKINNER

When my friends recently turned-on “Jeopardy” to test their academic skills, I felt so embarrassed when I couldn’t come up with any correct questions; it’s like the shame I felt in high school after being threatened with a sonic wedgie in gym class....

By DAN MACKIE

The World Happiness Report is out, and America’s ranking might make you frown. The USA, where “the pursuit of happiness” is enshrined in the Constitution, just after “the Right to Taylor Swift Concert Tickets” and “Snacks on on Super Bowl Sunday,” has...

By CAOIMHE MARKEY

Music is made to be experienced in person. Watching performances online can be convenient, particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic shut down in-person concerts. The feeling of interconnectedness that comes from a festival, concert or backyard jam,...

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.”...

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...

By MARION UMPLEBY

The first time Vicki Ferentinos pictured herself telling jokes on stage, she didn’t get too far.“I remember saying to a boyfriend when I was 17, ‘I want to be a stand-up.’ And he said, ‘I’m funnier than you.’ Then I didn’t think about it...

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...

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...

By NICHOLAS BOKE

Finally, a well-known American college can act like a college.Now that Dartmouth’s men’s basketball team has voted to unionize, and the college has countered that “the students on the men’s basketball team are not in any way employed by Dartmouth,”...

By DAN MACKIE

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, and I suppose in Ireland there might be a pub on that very corner. So there’s a little bit of sadness in knowing that my West Lebanon corner leads to a gas station with hot dogs spinning on rollers...

By MICKI COLBECK

The people in the Ompompanoosuc valley used to love their river — good fresh water for gardens and drinking, and a beautiful thing to look upon, but then she changed. She became faster and stronger and destroyed the things people built, who then...

By KRISTA BROWN

Our New Hampshire Senator, Jeanne Shaheen, chairs the appropriations subcommittee responsible for Justice Department funding. This week, that committee released a new bill that would slash $45 million from the Antitrust Division budget. The bill,...

By NARAIN BATRA

In our daily lives we see some of the most talented people, experts in their fields, in academics, sports, entertainment and business, choke under pressure when the moment for performance comes for which they have prepared for days and days. Why do...