Yearly Archives: 2010

Christie’s Earth Week Preview

[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

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Landing In Atlantic City

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“Onerous Regulations” Had Nothing to Do with This Plant Closure

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

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Tax Day Essay: “On Civil Disobedience”

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

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Clean Air Council Looks Forward – Ignores Elephant in the Room

The New Jersey Clean Air Council held it’s annual public hearing today – this year’s topic was “Vision for the Next Decade: Air Quality and Air Pollution Control in NJ”. The Clean Air Council, since its creation in 1954, serves … Continue reading

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