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We should listen to Lamar Alexander
READER COMMENTS: 1Last week, Lamar Alexander proposed a budgeting swap that New Hampshire should support.
Another View -- Kathy Sullivan: Vaillancourt, Mead flaps eclipse 'war' on schools
READER COMMENTS: 7The Vaillancourt blow-up, and to a lesser extent, the Mead mini-scandal, overshadowed a more serious controversy: the war that has erupted against New Hampshire’s public schools. It is not just...
David Harsanyi: The President's ridiculous 'to do' list
READER COMMENTS: 2Obama's make-believe seriousness in a "to-do list."
Ramesh Ponnuru: Facts do not support efforts to ban cell phone use while driving
READER COMMENTS: 0Should we ban cell phones in cars?
A small step for NH, a big step for our kids
READER COMMENTS: 2A very small step for the state will be a huge leap for individual students if the Legislature decides to adopt a modest school choice scholarship act today.
James Bennett and Matthew Stover: Chester College has always struggled while continuing to serve
READER COMMENTS: 2President Baines has the confidence of the Chester College Board of Trustees.
Fergus Cullen: Serving in state Senate takes a heavy toll on self-employed
READER COMMENTS: 0Reflections on serving a single term in the state Senate.
Another View -- Maggie Hassan: R&D tax credit should not be held hostage to GOP social agenda
READER COMMENTS: 1The Republican social agenda gets in the way of job creation.
A constitutional amendment worth everyone's support
READER COMMENTS: 5Proposed education funding amendment won't reduce local power.
David Harsanyi: Barack Obama and the hypothetical presidency
READER COMMENTS: 63Plenty of Americans believe that the President’s rhetoric runs counter to facts, but actually, it’s the President’s own counterfactual arguments that matter most.
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Monitor hypocrisy: Speaker as Hitler is only 'harsh'?
READER COMMENTS: 2In last week's furor over an editorial page cartoon that even its editor conceded was “harsh,'' the Monitor's hypocrisy was on full display.
Tax cap v. dunce cap: Six aldermen cut and run
READER COMMENTS: 2With six aldermanic votes in its pocket, the teachers' union can now concentrate its fire on picking off four more votes (10 would be needed to override a veto), plus trying to turn the tax cap into...
A veteran's memory: Thanks for your service
READER COMMENTS: 1(Cliff Schmidt is a World War II veteran and a former business executive. He resides in Henniker. His essay seems appropriate for this Memorial Day weekend--Editor.)
Pakistan no friend: U.S. must show some spine
READER COMMENTS: 13We have not been able to trust Pakistan for decades. It is time to end the charade.
Anger in the streets: It's all about the money
READER COMMENTS: 5Street protests have brought the politics of confrontation into the streets of North America and Europe. The datelines and details change, but the script stays the same.
Primaries matter: And upsets happen
READER COMMENTS: 3One good indicator of the state's political health is the number of hard-fought, competitive elections.
Saving America: Challenges for our students
READER COMMENTS: 0The following is excerpted from remarks made by Publisher Joseph W. McQuaid at the recent 19th annual Francis Wayland Parker Scholar Awards banquet in Manchester:
Hiding public business: This time it's Wilton-Lyndeborough
READER COMMENTS: 0What’s worse than a public body denying access to an investigator’s report that was paid for with taxpayer money?
Curb your cougar: Manchester's animal control
READER COMMENTS: 2Manchester will get back its second animal control officer come July 1. That is probably a good thing, given what seems to be an increase in wild varmints entering the city.
Unfair trade: Obama stalls, China wins
READER COMMENTS: 9Unfair foreign trade hurts New Hampshire. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the state lost 16,300 jobs between 2001 and 2010 because of China's trade practices.
Obama history: Watch out, Mt. Rushmore
READER COMMENTS: 3Until recently, you could go to the official website of the White House and find a brief biographical page on every American President. But now there's a twist.
Fled to Singapore: Not alone, either
READER COMMENTS: 32Before Facebook went public last week, co-founder Eduardo Saverin gave up his U.S. citizenship and became a citizen of Singapore. The move saved him a reported $67 million in taxes. As youthful...
Killing CON: Pull the plug now
READER COMMENTS: 8The New Hampshire House of Representatives acted responsibly this spring in passing a bill to eliminate New Hampshire’s Certificate of Need (CON) law. So why did the Senate mess that up by...
What's in a name? 'A baby that has not yet been born'
READER COMMENTS: 18A national right-to-life group picked up on a turn of phrase last week that was odd, not for the phrase, but for the source.
Bloody boondoggle: Rhode Island's Schilling deal
READER COMMENTS: 8Low spending, low taxes beat "incentives" for economic growth.
Tech education: NH moves forward
READER COMMENTS: 2Three days before Facebook's big IPO, New Hampshire's public colleges and universities signed a commitment to double the number of technology, science, engineering and mathematics graduates by 2025.
Granny D Day? A step too far
READER COMMENTS: 6A day for Granny D?
Congress' bank: Corporate welfare lives
READER COMMENTS: 10Subsidizing huge companies is not the same as being pro-business.