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Make 2026 the year you get involved

The hands of time move ever-forward, and as those hands spin round and round, life...happens. Long-running elected officials and members of civic boards grow old (or older, in some cases). While you have been going about your business, these people have been sacrificing their evenings to make sure you have the ability to ignore them. After all, if it ain’t broke, well, why pay attention? The thing is, just as life happens to you, it also happens to everyone else. Suddenly you turn around, and a bunch of people have resigned or retired — people you depended on without even ...

Help us to help you in 2026

It’s the end of one year, and the beginning of another, and we are feeling contemplative. In yesterday’s edition of The Express, we ran a story on B3 about how, as newspapers fade, people who used them for things other than reading are being forced to adapt (here’s a link, if that sounds like something you’d like to read: tinyurl.com/5569kjwz). At the end of the story, Sarah Wasserman — an assistant dean at Dartmouth — is quoted as saying, “These things will always continue to exist in certain spheres and certain pockets and certain class niches,” she says. “But I ...

Our Christmas wish

There are moments in time where the world just feels happier. We reflect on those moments — things like Woodstock or, for a younger generation, the summer of Pokemon Go — as brief flickers, glimpses of a happier world where we can just let the cold reality fall away, for a little while, anyway. The world just feels brighter during those rare moments. For many of us, Christmastime is another of those moments. It feels trite to say — or perhaps Hallmark-y — but there’s just something about Christmas. There’s a vibe that people everywhere are having amazing mornings opening ...

Healthcare costs are measured in more than just dollars

It’s no great secret that our healthcare system is broken. While a tired joke about American school shootings goes “there is no way to stop this, says only country that can’t stop this,” the same cannot be said of healthcare. Our system is famously busted — in keeping with the grand American tradition of doing everything bigger than anyone else — but we are far from the only nation where the inadequacies of a healthcare system holds back health and happiness of the citizenry. Critics are quick to point out issues with socialized healthcare in England and Canada, ...

Try understanding before the outrage

Though “tis the season” for holiday cheer, we’ve noticed a dark cloud of negativity has descended on our area in recent weeks, ranging from individuals upset at what they consider to be a lack of festive decorations to changes in what many apparently thought was an unchanging tradition. This cloud has manifested and festered within social media, as it so often does these days. This forms an echo chamber, where those shouts of outrage, pushing of conspiracies and the demand things change — frequently without offering solutions — grow and ripple throughout the area. It’s ...

What are you thankful for this year?

It’s 6:58 a.m. Thanksgiving morning, and you jolt up in bed, suddenly wide awake. In the fog of sleep, as the memory of your strangely poultry-themed dream fades away, one thought surfaces: the potatoes. You never bought the potatoes. As it happens though, you’ve got just enough time to dash to Weis for a bag of spuds before the bird needs to go in the oven. So, you throw on clothes, grab the keys to the Facebook Marketplace car your dad proudly negotiated down “two hundred bucks,” and roar off down Main Street. You’re not the only one. When you arrive, the store is crowded ...