Yearly Archives: 2010

  Superb editorial from the journal Nature, printed in its entirety without permission. It was written by “scientists with stones” and closes with exactly the same observations and recommendations I have been making here:  Science scorned Journal name: Nature Volume: 467 , … Continue reading →

Secret Meeting Starts New DEP Science Advisory Board Off on the Wrong Foot [Update 2 – 9/10/10 – On October 10, 2009, I wrote to then DEP Acting Commissioner Mauriello to request that the SAB be subject to the Federal … Continue reading →

NJ Drinking Water Infrastructure Deficit Exceeds $7.9 billion Given yesterday’s long delayed DEP statewide drought watch, which is compounded by DEP’s failure to update the 1996 Water Supply Master Plan and the Christie Administration’s austerity and environmental rollback policies, we … Continue reading →

Governor Christie is holding a Town Hall meeting today in Raritan Township, the second in his “government reform” campaign. The campaign kickoff was yesterday, just coincidentally on the same day the Assembly held oversight hearings on his $400 million education … Continue reading →

Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure  ~~~ (Camus “The Stranger” (1942)) And so have the streams in the area (shown below as of Sunday 9/5/10). I live on top of the hill at the headwaters of the … Continue reading →