EDITORIALS

IN A SINGLE vote last week, the Manchester Board of School Committee gave the public all the reason needed to justify converting the city schools into a department overseen by the mayor and aldermen.

WITH THE declaration in his 2007 budget address that "state agencies must stop using the highway fund like an ATM," Gov. John Lynch focused attention on one of the biggest financial problems facing New Hampshire: The ongoing diversion of state highway trust fund money to uses other than road construction and maintenance.

WHAT, IF ANYTHING, is the governor going to do for the 200 workers for payday lenders he will make jobless at the start of next year?

TO ALL who haven't visited Manchester's Hands Across the Merrimack bridge, make a point of strolling across it -- slowly -- on the next sunny day.

INSTEAD OF the usual flowers and store-bought card, try giving mom the feeling of total contentment.