Opinion

It is fall, and things change quickly. Leaves, like blossoming flowers, are on our minds and in the headlines these days. Down in Merrimack, a high school senior’s flower-holding portrait was banned from the school’s yearbook on grounds that it violated…

The state Supreme Court’s latest pronouncement on education funding simply kicked the can down the road. Far enough down the road that the new taxes needed to pay for the new spending that the new definition of an adequate education…

New York Rep. Charles Rangel, the chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, last month said he was willing to consider reducing tax rates on America’s corporations to help them remain competitive in a global economy. He also…