Category Archives: Family & kids

Trenton Protest Against Christie Budget

[Update: the Governor’s spokesman’s comments in the Star Ledger article on the protest reveal a dangerous arrogance. The governor’s spokesman, Michael Drewniak, said the protesters are “blinded by their own rhetoric and are on the wrong side of history.” So … Continue reading

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Life’s a Beach, and then …

[Updates below EPA Region 2 Administrator Judy Enck, Congressman Frank Pallone, and local officials from Old Bridge held a press conference yesterday to discuss the cleanup of the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund site with concerned community members and environmental groups … Continue reading

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DEP Will Delist Threatened Cooper’s Hawk to Promote Development

[Update: 11/11/09 Ed Rodgers of NJN TV news did a great story last night, click here, runs from time 8:55 – 11:15 – end update ] At the recent NJ Business and Industry Association panel discussion, DEP Commissioner Mauriello made … Continue reading

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“This is Not A Trail”

“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.”  Robert Frost “The Road Not … Continue reading

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New Toxic Daycare Exposes Loopholes in Corzine Reforms

Symbolically illustrating the importance of the issue, the very first piece of legislation Governor Jon Corzine signed in the year 2007, was the so called “Kiddie Kollege”  law (P.L. 2007, Chapter 1.). To much fanfare, in a January 11, 2007 … Continue reading

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