Monthly Archives: January 2015

Assembly Panel Approves Bills That Would Implement Gov. Christie’s Red Tape Attacks on Environmental & Health Safeguards

Bills Invite Industry Challenges to Block State Regulations  Policy Would Elevate Industry Compliance Costs Above Public Protections Why would a Committee, Chaired by a liberal pro-environment Democrat, with a Democratic majority, be releasing these kind of right wing, ALEC, Koch … Continue reading

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What Do You Think These Kids Were Being Trained To Do?

A Cautious Note From History For Today’s Video-Gamers  One phase of the aviation course offered to boys at Weequahic High School in Newark is shown in this photo from 1942. The student could actually orient the model plane by moving … Continue reading

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Senate Environment Committee Begins New Year Appeasing Animal Murderers, Gun Nuts, & The Cranberry Industry

“Educating Kids to be Terrorists Against Peaceful Animals Bill” After December to Remember, Democrats Join Republicans To Troll for the Bait, Bullet, & Ag Vote No Mention of Gov. Christie’s Record, The Day Before State of the State Address It … Continue reading

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Christie DEP & Assembly Speaker Confirm That Major Tourist Related Development Planned for Liberty State Park

Stealth Amendments Could Have Been End Run Around New Open Space Lease Revenue Dedication It’s All About Finance [****Updates Below – #2 provides Christie’s fingerprints on the deal] The Associated Press carried an important story today on the Liberty State … Continue reading

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After Selling Out State Parks, Some Environmental Groups Now Slither Onto the Liberty State Park Bandwagon

Chutzpa Award Goes To Ed Potosnak of NJ LCV [Update below] [Intro Note: an astute reader notes a conflict between my rhetoric and image, with this note: This is not a salamander (amphibian)…but a reptile…more specifically a Five-Lined Skink… Eumeces … Continue reading

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