Monthly Archives: December 2011

Occupy Dupont Pompton Lakes – January 5 – Free The Toxic Hostages

An Appeal to OWS Movement To Shame Chemical Industry Abuses Today, Occupy Wall Street holds a national day of action to occupy our homes, focusing their huge spotlight on home foreclosure. In Pompton Lakes NJ, chemical giant Dupont corporation has … Continue reading

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Is the “Fake Farmer” Reform Bill a Fraud?

On Thursday, the Senate Environment Committee heard a bill intended to close loopholes and prevent “Fake Farmer” abuses of NJ’s “Farmland Assessment Act of 1964” (see: last year’s Asbury Park Press investigation:  “Fake Farmers cost NJ taxpayers millions”). The bipartisan bill,  … Continue reading

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NJ Dem Leaders Back Dupont Frack

NJ is Open For Business – We are competing to import toxic waste! Last week, the Assembly and Senate environment committees heard lame duck legislation purporting to ban the treatment and disposal of fracking wastewater at NJ facilities (see: A4231[1R] and S3049). … Continue reading

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Ode to a Chainsaw – My “Sleepy Hollow Moment”

[Update: 12/7/11: check out both a remarkable resonance and a remarkable moment. Philip Glass spoke to the OWS at Lincoln Center. There is an echo of themes from the below post. The moral of the below post was about literature, … Continue reading

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An Open Letter to My Friends at NJ Spotlight

A very unfortunate scene went down in Trenton today, and it was over-heard by several people, including members of the press, which compels me to write this. I have praised NJ Spotlight here as “the only game in town“ when … Continue reading

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