Editorials

New Hampshire legislators are right to move forward with bills protecting young female athletes from being physically injured by boys who want to be girls.

Of the many troubling aspects in the recent story of state Rep. Jonathan Stone, most disturbing to us is another example of a public body agreeing to keep from the public information that it is entitled to and ought to know.

It’s early but Manchester state Sen. Donna Soucy is clearly in the running for non sequitur of the year with her amazing statement in defense of transgender boys competing against girls on New Hampshire sports teams.

Half Zantop, 62, and Susanne Zantop, 55, were stabbed to death after Half opened their door in Etna to two Vermont teens pretending to be working on a homework assignment.

Younger generations as well as transplants to New Hampshire may not know of a time when certain vested medical interests fought tooth and nail against the idea of independent medical service and testing clinics for our state. What we take for granted today in terms of options for ambulatory …

When the sabbath was over,

Annie Kuster will step down after serving 12 years (six terms) in the U.S. House. Good for her.

A House panel recommends against adding the New Hampshire Presidential Primary to the state Constitution. Good.

Here is a snap quiz for you. What is the difference between a President Joe Biden official appearance and a Biden campaign stop?

Moving New Hampshire’s state primaries from September to late August makes more sense than fast-forwarding them to June. The House concurs with Secretary of State David Scanlan on this.

New Hampshire has decided to press pause on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to grade essays in standardized testing — but only temporarily, they say, to let AI bone up on the latest test.

Kelly Ayotte and Chuck Morse should be ashamed that their consuming interest in becoming New Hampshire’s governor trumps the very principles that they will no doubt claim to uphold in that high office. Like many other cowering Republicans, they have pledged their fealty to Donald Trump, who …

We sympathize with the TV and radio talking heads who must fill endless hours of otherwise dead air with — something, anything.

This week’s hearings into due process complaints against the state’s Division of Children, Youth, and Families have already stirred the pot. Not because they’ve unearthed glaring lapses in due process within DCYF — that story is still being told. Rather, it has shone a spotlight on one of th…

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell will step down from that role in November and not seek reelection in two years. “It’s time for the next generation of leadership,” he said.