There’s been a lot of gnashing of teeth over The Guardian’s revelations about how Verizon –…
Category: Opinion
WE’VE GOT MAIL: Avoid meat, live longer
To the Editor: This week’s issue of Time magazine brings more documentation that vegetarians live longer…
Thoughts & Views: What’s in a (street) name?
Okay, boys and girls, our new word for today is “contumacious.” According to the dictionary,…
Thoughts & Views: Ensuring they get ‘the best years of their lives’
As the nation prepares to remember America’s war dead on Memorial Day, the last Monday…
WE’VE GOT MAIL
‘Hail to the chief’ To the Editor: A page in the history of the Borough of…
Thoughts & Views: Still seeking answers, 4 decades later
It sounds like something from a “CSI” episode, but it’s not fiction. And though the story…
Thoughts & Views: Hold government’s feet to the fire
A couple of major news stories that made headlines recently made me wonder where the United…
Thoughts & Views: Ferreting out the furry facts
Okay, enough with the serious stuff. It’s time for another column of absurdities, or…
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Ag-Gag Laws and Freedom of the Press Dear Editor: “Despicable, unconstitutional, ridiculous, immature, idiotic, and mendacious.”…
Thoughts & Views: We all need to be vigilant today
Some weeks ago, after completing my work at The Observer after 4 p.m. Friday afternoon, I…
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To the Editor: In recognition of May as Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, I’d like to encourage…
Thoughts & Views: Running with a story – and stumbling
On Monday, April 15, being otherwise occupied and not one of those people who tweet or…
Thoughts & Views: Sportsmanship? ‘Show me the money!’
So the sword has fallen on the head basketball coach and athletic director at Rutgers, our…
Thoughts & Views: A story at any cost? No thanks
There is one aspect to a job in journalism that I have never quite understood, and…
Correction!
Last week’s story about neighbors up in arms about a development proposal that would replace a…