Editorial: Spring is a wash of color – don’t miss it!

If fall is the peal of maul on wedge, spring is the scritch of rake and swish of broom, the scream of the line leaving the reel, the chorus of peepers in the upland swamp, the piercing trill of the tree frog and the song of ball off … 4

Editorial: Four decades on, a sign of progress

In the fifth episode of the ground-breaking All in the Family television show, Archie Bunker directs a homophobic slur at a friend of his son-in-law Mike and is outraged when Mike retaliates by saying that it’s actually Archie’s friend, a retired pro football player, who is gay. “You … 5

Editorial: State must professionalize its regulators

Maybe it’s a small matter. But coming, as it does, while the House is preparing to vote on legalizing casino gambling, and in the middle of yet another battle involving the state liquor commission, the gaming commission’s order that the Lakes Region Casino shut down its slot machines … 11

Editorial: Cancer doctors taking the lead

When the subject is the fight against cancer – from UNH track athlete Cameron Lyle’s selfless decision to give up his final months of competition to donate marrow for a leukemia victim, detailed last week in the Monitor, to a breakthrough in cell therapy that could save thousands … 1

Editorial: An urgent need for tax reform

Two dogged members of Congress, Sen. Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who heads the Senate Finance Committee, and Michigan Republican Rep. David Camp, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, are committed to making major reforms to the nation’s 4-million-word tax code this year. The unwillingness to … 4

Editorial: Let’s not make New Hampshire the Casino State

Think of Vermont, and you picture Holsteins and maple syrup; Maine, lobsters and lighthouses on a rocky coast. As for New Hampshire, even before the Old Man of the Mountain did a face plant on the floor of the notch, the state had a branding problem – so … 3

Editorial: Now the sequester is starting to hurt

Congress has been holding its breath during the long tantrum called the sequester, but it’s the American public, and most of all its poor, who are turning blue as the impact of the across-the-board budget cuts hit one sector after another. Virtually everyone involved, including Sens. Jeanne Shaheen … 4

Editorial: On internet tax bill, Ayotte and Shaheen are right

As a rule, the greater the reliance on sales taxes to fund government, the more regressive the tax system, since sales taxes claim a far bigger share of the income of the poor and middle class than the wealthy. For us, that’s reason enough to oppose the Marketplace … 8

Editorial: Are you smarter than Scott Brown?

Yesterday’s editorial posed a question to would-be U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown: Just how well do you know New Hampshire? For those readers playing along with the state trivia challenge we issued to Brown, here are the answers: 1. Among New Hampshire’s new, year-round residents: robins, cardinals, possums … 0

• Editorial: Just how well does Scott Brown know New Hampshire?

Editorial: Just how well does Scott Brown know New Hampshire?

Former Massachusetts senator Scott Brown has been making the political rounds in New Hampshire and playing coy about whether he’s gauging support for a 2014 run against Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. If Brown wants to be taken seriously, he’ll have to demonstrate some rock-solid Granite State bona fides. … 1

• Editorial: Are you smarter than Scott Brown?