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What are The Best Reasons for a Bottle Bill?

Quick Quiz: What are the relationships between the pictures? Best reader comment wins a huge prize!! Hint can be found on lines 22-23: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2008/Bills/A0500/121_I1.PDF Bill WolfeAnchor Glass plant, Salem NJ. Bill WolfeSalem River, just feet from the Anchor Glass plant. … Continue reading

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Hammer meet nail

Sometimes it takes an outsider’s fresh perspective to observe obvious absurdities in how the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) operates. The King’s courtiers always are blind to the fact that the King has no clothes. I was just reviewing today’s … Continue reading

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A cruel hoax – on many levels

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. ~~~ Groucho Marx [Update: 7/20/08 – “Am I the only one who finds it strange that our government so often adopts a … Continue reading

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Second Edition: Quality v. schlock journalism

Earlier in June, we established a novel award – the purpose being to compare good environmental journalism with what we call “stenography of government spin” or what other prominent media experts have dubbed “lapdogs” or “enablers”. see:”You’re Doing a Heck … Continue reading

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Builders Plan to Escalate Assault on Environment

Builders Taunt: “See You in September” Environmentalists: “Send Lawyers, Guns, and Money” Bill WolfeBulldozers destroy Highlands forests for more single lot McMansion sprawl With Governor Corzine about to hand the NJ Builders Association a major legislative and political victory in … Continue reading

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