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Here's hoping Gov.-elect Chris Christie is an answer to Newark's prayer
By Joan Whitlow
November 06, 2009, 5:24AM
On Wednesday, my car radio was telling me Gov.-elect Chris Christie was going to spend a quiet, restful day with his family. But an e-mail alert said Christie was going to visit the Robert Treat Academy in Newark in about an hour. There had to be a back story. So I called Steve "Big Steve" Adubato, the North... Full story »
Bruce Springsteen, bring New Jersey together and play Gov.-elect Chris Christie's inauguration
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board/The Star-Led...
November 07, 2009, 5:52AM
It took only two days for Gov.-elect Chris Christie to sell out. In an interview with The Star-Ledger that appeared in Friday’s editions, Christie put out a plea for Bruce Springsteen to play at the inauguration. He sounded like Marcia Brady pleading with Davy Jones to play at her school dance. "I’m not beneath begging," Christie said. That’s... Full story »
Michael Jackson's "This Is It" vindication; Save the bats; Pope John High School football coach was selfish
By Letters to the Editor/The Star-Ledger
November 07, 2009, 5:34AM
Don’t tarnish Michael Jackson’s name The Star-Ledger featured a review of Michael Jackson’s new film, "This Is It" ("Back in the spotlight, one last time," Oct. 29). The movie was fantastic, as the reviewer suggested, and Jackson was in top form. However, the review was horribly marred by added reminders of scandals in which the press reveled while... Full story »
Pardon N.J. marijuana grower; Good luck Gov.-elect Chris Christie; Sen. Richard Codey still has some juice
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board/The Star-Led...
November 07, 2009, 5:20AM
In our opinion . . . A review of some of the week’s Star-Ledger editorials: -- With the Legislature probably close to passing a bill that permits medical marijuana use, pardoning John Ray Wilson from the serious charge of maintaining or operating a drug production facility because he was growing marijuana behind his Franklin Township home makes sense. Otherwise, the state could... Full story »
Newark's fugitive surrender program: The gift of a fresh start
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board/The Star-Led...
November 07, 2009, 5:16AM
We haven’t seen this many people asking for forgiveness since the Mets held a team meeting. From Wednesday through Friday at the Bethany Baptist Church in Newark, the Fugitive Safe Surrender program allowed hundreds of nonviolent offenders to clear up open warrants voluntarily, with little chance of jail time. While providing an express lane through the legal process,... Full story »
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Rep. Steve Rothman's health care dialog across the divide
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board/The Star-Led...
November 07, 2009, 5:06AM
Rep. Steve Rothman got an earful when he agreed to meet with protestors from northern New Jersey who traveled to Washington, D.C., Thursday for a big rally against health care reform. "They’re my constituents," he said. "Many want me to vote against this bill." The Bergen County Democrat said he told the group that he supports universal health... Full story »
Christie to Toms River: Drop dead
By Paul Mulshine/The Star Ledger
November 06, 2009, 6:07PM
Well, that didn't take long. It was voters in my own Ocean County that gave Chris Christie a big chunk of his margin for victory, a 70,000-vote plurality. So where did he go the day after the election? To Newark, to shmooze with the Democrats. Apparently no one told Christie that his urban strategy was a disaster. He got just 3,269... Full story »
The lame duck and marriage
By Thurman Hart
November 06, 2009, 4:29PM
Tom Moran has an interesting column discussing the likelihood of a marriage equality bill coming up in the lame duck session this year. It's the same thing I've been hearing in private conversations since January..."Just wait until after the election, then we'll have it." It's a coward's way of seeking progress. The entire point of democracy is to make government... Full story »
Hey Abbott
By John Bury
November 06, 2009, 1:43PM
"I haven’t made up a priority list yet beyond the first three — which is tax relief, spending cuts and reform of urban education" governor-elect Chris Christie, 11/5/09 The first two priorities are bromides that would likely have been on for-now-governor Crozine's list. The 'reform of urban eduction' would certainly not have been. Here's why. Full story »
Honoring Taxpayers Nationwide
By Brian Campbell
November 06, 2009, 12:00PM
There has never been a day that honors us; no parade, nor monument, nor warship commissioned. Towns are named after others, as are parks, whole forests, schools and train depots. When a bridge or an interstate or any other public work project gets built, and our public “servants” need a name for posterity purposes, they look not at those... Full story »
The GOP FTW
Wallkill National Wildlife Refuge gets funding; New Jerseyans welcomed USS New York; Coach Vic Paternostro was no winner
By Letters to the Editor/The Star-Ledger
November 06, 2009, 5:43AM
Help for wildlife refuge Last week, Congress approved funding for the Wallkill National Wildlife Refuge thanks to the support of Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez and Rep. Scott Garrett, and to an important federal program called the Land and Water Conservation Fund. This funding will protect two holdings, adding 184 acres to the Refuge. These purchases protect... Full story »
Election lessons: Crystal ball still cloudy
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board/The Star-Led...
November 06, 2009, 5:19AM
It was Macbeth who spoke wearily of life as "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing." But it might as well be your average political pundit plucking meager meaning from Tuesday’s off-year elections. National Public Radio reported the results "are being watched by national politicians as a referendum on President Obama and his... Full story »
Sen. Richard Codey jockeying for position
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board/The Star-Led...
November 06, 2009, 5:15AM
Richard Codey, soon to be kicked to the curb as Senate president, wants the world to know: He’s still got plenty of juice. Just ask the White House. The day after the election, Codey said that Gov. Jon Corzine, so despondent about dismal approval ratings and a car-wreck of a campaign he couldn’t pull from a ditch, almost... Full story »
Unearned Victories
By John Bury
November 05, 2009, 2:54PM
One of the saddest/funniest aspects of local elections are the victory speeches of candidates who interpret getting more votes than their opposition as approbation of their tenure, policies, or personality when in fact, in gubernatorial election years like 2009, it has almost nothing to do with any of that as the results in Union County bear out. Full story »
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