Monthly Archives: April 2010

[Update: Philadelphia Inquirer: Red-tape panel has no easy answers – the claim that environmental groups had mixed reactions is not accurate, unless an off the record source offered a favorable assessment that was not reported in the story] Today is … Continue reading →

[Update #2 – glad to see Senator Buono take a stand: NJ Senator distances herself from Gov. Christie’s ‘red tape’ report The report, released shortly before 11 a.m., says the group had “arrived at a series of unanimous recommendations” — … Continue reading →

Just day’s before the release of Governor Christie’s Regulatory Czar’s “Red Tape Review Group” Report, the Star Ledger reports today that a GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical plant in Clifton will close and destroy 270 good jobs. Contrary to the Christie Administration’s simplistic … Continue reading →

I never subscribed to the first sentence of Thoreau’s famous essay “Civil Disobedience “(1849). That lede has been misleadingly overplayed, in terms of distracting from more central points of his essay and it also has served to legitimize certain anti-social … Continue reading →