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Aug 27, 2013
Opinion: Young, invincible and not very selfish
The Record
SO I SAY to my 21-year-old son, “you might want to think about…” Fill in the blank. Ironing your shirt before going off to a job interview. Phoning the utility company to make sure the lights won’t go out in your college apartment. Whatever. The kid is quick ...
Comment
Opinion: The march and the merry-go-round
The Record
THERE will be many commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Aug. 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Once these events are over, there will remain in Washington several reminders of the march and its message
Comment
Aug 26, 2013
Doblin: This is the pope; can you hear me now?
The Record
Last week, The Associated Press reported that the new pope likes to call up average people who have sent him letters. The pope doesn't use a secretary to place the call; he picks up the phone, dials and says, "This is the pope," or words to that effect. Francis ...
Comment
Jersey's still the best: Howard Ball's Bits 'N Pieces column from Aug. 2008
Suburban Trends
Bringing greetings from Tustin, California, Howard Ball describes the environs as "God's backyard," but says New Jersey still grows the best tomatoes.
Comment
Aug 25, 2013
Kelly: Memorializing a life and a tragic death in Hillsdale
The Record
EVERY TOWN has its memories. The happy ones of high school teams that win championships, and local kids who grow up to be movie stars or national political leaders are easy to keep and remember.
Comment
Opinion: Besides 'The Butler' there was Fred Morrow
The Record
Hackensack native worked on Eisenhower's executive staff Michael J. Birkner is a professor of history at Gettysburg College. His is the author of two books on New Jersey history and co-editor of an expanded ...
Comment
Harrison: Campaign money always finds a way in
The Record
It is time to rethink the state's campaign finance laws, including the public gubernatorial funding. GOVERNOR Christie announced last week that he would opt in to the state's public campaign financing system. ...
Comment
Opinion: Living his dream
The Record
Living his dream 50 years after the March on Washington, much to celebrate and much to do Mark C. ...
Comment
Opinion: The U.S. should not take sides in Egypt
The Record
Moustafa Bayoumi, a professor of English at Brooklyn College, is author of "How Does It Feel to be a Problem: Being Young and Arab in America." He wrote this for Progressive Media Project. The United States needs to completely ...
Comment
Aug 23, 2013
AIM Vernon: The Thumbs Tell It, Aug. 16, 2013
Aim Vernon
Thumbs Down to the person who thumbs downed my comment about the school playground fundraisers. I speak from experience with them. They are more focused on money than anything. And I am entitled to my opinion.
Comment
Lowry: Machinery turning in slow motion
Herald News
One more needless delay in City Hall.
Comment
Doblin: Nightmare on Elm Street, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
The Record
WHEN YOUNG people randomly gun down a man on the streets of Chicago, there is little notice. When it happens in suburban Oklahoma, the world screams for justice. And when it happens little more than a week before the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther ...
Comment
AIM Vernon: The Thumbs Tell It, August, 23, 2013
Aim Vernon
Thumbs Up to the Vernon DOT for patching breakneck road.
Comment
AIM Jefferson/AIM Vernon: Word Around Town August 23, 2013
Aim Vernon
“In a recent Rasmussen Report poll, only 29 percent of Americans said they think U.S. is headed in the right direction. Do you?”
Comment
AIM Jefferson: The Thumbs Tell It, August, 23, 2013
Aim Jefferson
Thumbs up to all the volunteers at St. Thomas the Apostle Church Vacation Bile School last week! My daughter had the best time! Thank you to everyone involved, especially the many teenagers who were such wonderful role models for the younger members of our parish.
Comment
Aug 22, 2013
AIM West Milford: The Thumbs Tell It, Aug. 22, 2013
Aim West Milford
Thumbs Up to West Milford transportation for offering two buses for the kids attending St. Catherine's in Ringwood! You've made it easier to give our children the catholic school education that West Milford is unable to offer!
Comment
Belleville opinion: Remembering the wonderful and vibrant Mary Cetrulo
Belleville Times
Silver Lake mourns the death of a wonderful friend to St. Anthony’s Church, Silver Lake Civic Association and St. Anthony’s Seniors, and me.
Comment
By any other name
Suburban Trends
Columnist Holly Ennist Stewart wants people to share opinions and to back them up by attaching their names to them.
Comment
Norwood Board of Health: Finding help with health related issues in Bergen County
Northern Valley Suburbanite
The Bergen County Department of Health Services offers help, services and advice on everything from addiction to occupational health.
Comment
AIM West Milford: Word Around Town, Aug. 22, 2013
Aim West Milford
“The West Milford Autumn Lights festival is scheduled on Oct. 12 for its 19th year. As a resident, have you attended and what would you like to see at the festival?”
Comment
Nutley opinion: Introducing Maryann Lauber, active Nutley volunteer
Nutley Sun
A few months ago, Dom Tibaldo, president of the Nutley Historical Society, suggested that it might make an interesting column if I introduced each member of the society's executive board, and outlined their roles in the organization.
Comment
Old, but is it really an antique?
Suburban Trends
Suburban Trends columnist Joe Phalon faces up to the fact that at some point, everything becomes an antique -- even that Volkswagen Rabbit he considered buying years ago.
Comment
Closing Gitmo: America’s military didn’t fail, it’s our policymakers
The Record
THE DETENTION facility on our military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is holding 166 individuals. Most of them have been there a decade or more.
Comment
Aug 21, 2013
Pouring out a bucket of thoughts
Ridgewood Suburban News
I made my bucket list long ago. I also made a reverse bucket list (of things I'd never ever want to do). So, as an obsessive list-maker, I'm now compiling a list of major events I've experienced and enjoyed over the years. Here's a peek: As a reporter in my ...
Comment
How an innocent Russian kiss became a global scandal
The Record
SOMETHING is awry when a congratulatory kiss between two female Russian athletes becomes an international embarrassment for their country.
Comment
Aug 19, 2013
Doblin: Lautenberg would never ask 'Please, may I?'
The Record
Frank Pallone is not cast in Frank Lautenberg's mold; Cory Booker is.
Comment
A favorite American pastime - Howard Ball's column from Aug. 2008
Suburban Trends
This was the time of year when the Romain Avenue Tigers would wear their football Jerseys when they played baseball. We were up early in the morning and made our way to Lakeside Oval (Feiler Field, Lakeside School site). There was a backstop and baselines ...
Comment
Aug 18, 2013
McFeatters: You're photogenic, whether you like it or not
The Record
Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service. YOUNGSTERS star-struck by Hollywood once fantasized about being on camera. Now, they're on camera whether they want to be or not, and so is the rest of the country. Everyone is starring in somebody's movie — the ...
Comment
Aug 17, 2013
Thomasson: Top colleges struggle with student diversity
The Record
The system is becoming more polarized racially. MOST OF America’s select institutions of higher education are straining to find a sustained path to diversity. But according to a new study from Georgetown ...
Comment
Aug 16, 2013
Lowry: In 'Carolina, voters rights take a hit
Herald News
North Carolina takes a step back.
Comment
AIM Jefferson: The Thumbs Tell It, Aug. 16, 2013
Aim Jefferson
Thumbs Down to the Jefferson “food pantry.” The government now taking over charity? Isn’t this aptly handled by the churches in the area? What next is to be provided for “free” by our bureaucracy? I suppose door-to-door delivery of food!
Comment
AIM Jefferson/AIM Vernon: Word Around Town August 16, 2013
Aim Jefferson
QUESTION: “Was MLB’s suspension of Alex Rodriguez ‘just’ or ‘just too much’?”
Comment
Aug 15, 2013
AIM West Milford: Word Around Town, Aug. 15, 2013
Aim West Milford
“Student enrollment in West Milford has been going down over the last few years. Were you aware? Any comments?”
Comment
Verona-Cedar Grove Opinion Column: Bullying does not belong in government
Verona-Cedar Grove Times
Bullying is humiliating and attacks an individual's inner being, according to an article by Karl Egan dubbed, “Bullying and the Politics of Power and Influence.”
Comment
Nutley opinion: Few hot days are bargain
Nutley Sun
Although we had those miserably hot couple of weeks last month, I was just thinking that we've been rather lucky so far this summer with our weather.
Comment
Bloomfield opinion: Like kid in a candy store
Bloomfield Life
Since I come across interesting books all day long, I keep a list of titles to read later.
Comment
A reluctant royal-watcher
Pascack Valley Community Life
I vaguely remember Queen Elizabeth’s coronation – believe it or not. That was in 1952 when an 11-year-old girl might be expected to get caught up in the lofty, extravagantly princessey occasion of a young woman becoming queen. I don’t remember at all being ...
Comment
Bloomfield opinion: What makes town special
Bloomfield Life
Those who have left Bloomfield always look back with fond memories of our town.
Comment
'Ranger' of yore isn't the 'Ranger' of yours
Twin-Boro News
Apparently, my attempt to masquerade as a movie critic by commenting on the latest incarnation of "The Lone Ranger" in the movies didn’t settle well with a few readers of this column. In my imagination, he is always sitting astride his horse, Silver, wearing ...
Comment
Belleville opinion: Seniors throw luau; my National Night Out
Belleville Times
Condolences to the family of Irene Pica of Brighton Avenue who passed away on Friday, July 19 at the age of 96.
Comment
Aug 12, 2013
Doblin: Nine years later, few care about McGreevey's unique truth
The Record
HARD to imagine nine years have passed since Gov. James E. McGreevey said, "And so my truth is that I am a gay American." On Aug. 12, 2004, McGreevey came out of the closet, publicly ...
Comment
Bits 'N Pieces column from Aug. 2008: Not a night to miss
Suburban Trends
If you missed the National Night Out, you missed a good time! Howard Ball talks about police work and National Night Outs from days past.
Comment
Ensuring a healthier ‘view from the grass roots’
Suburban Trends
If there was ever a year to grow a lush, green lawn, this has been it. With a cool spring, record rainfall and with the exception of a week of hot days in the 90s in July”it is summer after all”the conditions have been perfect for sporting what could pass as a ...
Comment
Aug 10, 2013
Thomasson: Military justice system failing in Fort Hood case
The Record
For the Army to have taken so long to bring Hasan to the bar of justice is despicable. It should have happened long ago.
Comment
Aug 09, 2013
Lowry: Of butterfly bushes and aching backs
Herald News
Taking a few moments for the small joys of late summer.
Comment
Glen Rock's Backyard Environmentalist: Zucchini horrors
Glen Rock Gazette
Columnist offers general rules for vegetable gardening.
Comment
Aug 08, 2013
Morris: Common sense needed on comp time
Herald News
Weighing comp time for public service
Comment
Radio days (and nights)
Suburban Trends
Columnist Holly Ennist Stewart recalls the great radio stations of her youth growing up in Kinnelon.
Comment
Phalon's File - Aug. 7, 2013: The rediscovered country
Suburban Trends
I used to think New York and its suburbs were surrounded by some kind of shroud or force field that kept country music out.
Comment
Kinnelon's library director welcomes readers to try eBooks
Suburban Trends
Kinnelon Public Library is checking out more eBooks but finds that print books remain popular.
Comment
Bloomfield opinion: Nuclear disarmament
Bloomfield Life
Once you hear the Hibakusha's horror stories from the 1945 bombings and the days that followed, your view on nuclear weapons is changed forever.
Comment
Green Valley: No more plastic bottles
Northern Valley Suburbanite
It's summer and people are hydrating themselves all over the place, so I'm going to revisit the plastics issue for those of you who've been reading this column.
Comment
Belleville opinion: SLCA celebrates 20 years with foods, friends and a few dances
Belleville Times
What a wonderful time we had at our 20th Year Block Party of the Silver Lake Civic Association.
Comment
Guest Editorial in The Montclair Times: A grassroots rebellion succeeds
The Montclair Times
The recent announcement by Township Councilman Bill Hurlock that the Bellevue Avenue Library would reopen on Saturdays marks a dramatic leap forward in the quest of the Friends of the Bellevue Avenue Library to fully reopen the library.
Comment
Nutley opinion: Positive trip home
Nutley Sun
One of the great things about summer is that it affords far-flung family members the chance to get together.
Comment
Before there was air-conditioning
Twin-Boro News
"Backward, turn backward, O’ time in your flight; Make me a child again, just for tonight!" The other evening, when the temperature outside still hovered in the high 80s, that couplet ...
Comment
Aug 07, 2013
Life's a game, played by the easily addicted
Ridgewood Suburban News
I have an addictive personality. It's an easy admission, especially because I know I'm not alone. First, and always is my compulsion to complete the New York Times crossword puzzle - a quick task on Mondays, even Tuesdays, but the Times' puzzles get more ...
Comment
Aug 05, 2013
Doblin: No rainbow flags will fly at the winter Olympics
The Record
Russia's new policies on gay people: In short, the government is against them. Even tourists who promote homosexuality, whatever that means, could find themselves detained in jail for up to 14 days and then expelled from the country. No gay couples can adopt ...
Comment
Harbinger of another Ice Age?
Suburban Trends
Columnist Gregory Rummo addresses today's "weird weather" and the sun's moody contribution to it.
Comment
Aug 04, 2013
McFeatters: Manning case shows Army has work to do
The Record
Distributed by Scripps Howard News Service. The Manning case raises troubling questions. A MILITARY judge found Army Pfc. Bradley Manning not guilty of the most serious charge against him, "aiding the ...
Comment
Aug 03, 2013
The Montclair Times' Carpe Caffeam: The funnybone connects to the wishbone
The Montclair Times
Community Editor Kelly Ebbels plots to take back the megaphone from a self-deprecating monkey.
Comment
Mercado: Donating organs, saving lives
Herald News
Organ donation can save a child's life.
Comment
Murdock: ObamaCare should be defunded now
The Record
Even as it paces its cage, Obamacare already is wreaking havoc. CONGRESS possesses the power of the purse, but only if it wields it. And it should do so to defund Obamacare before this medical Godzilla grows ...
Comment
Aug 02, 2013
Lowry: 'Free-for-alls' keep raining on Paterson
Herald News
People deserve better from their public servants
Comment
Ridgewood Mayor's Corner: Celebrating summer
The Ridgewood News
Mayor Paul Aronsohn's monthly column in The Ridgewood News.
Comment
Aug 01, 2013
When the crowd went wild at Wimbledon
Pascack Valley Community Life
My favorite sport, perhaps because I once played it, is tennis. Initially played on a croquet lawn, it was closely associated with the upper crust. "Tennis anyone?" Only 13 years after the first tennis club opened in England in 1874, the clay courts of the ...
Comment
Belleville opinion: 'The Panther' explores agents' lives
Belleville Times
I dream of being a real estate agent when I watch “Million Dollar Listing New York” and I fantasize about being a designer when I watch “The Rachel Zoe Project.”
Comment
Nutley opinion: Stationery is now stationary
Nutley Sun
Communicating is a good thing, but now there are so many ways to do it, it seems overwhelming.
Comment
'Eggspert' encounter makes the front page
Twin-Boro News
Someone – I’m not sure who – once said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. So, why do people keep trying to fry an egg on the sidewalk during a heat wave? During the recent heat wave, for ...
Comment
Summer in the '70s, Suburban Trends style
Suburban Trends
Columnist Holly Ennist Stewart recalls growing up in Kinnelon in the 1970s.
Comment
Bloomfield opinion: Tale of two projects
Bloomfield Life
It was great to see so many Bloomfield residents come out on Monday night to oppose the two development projects taking place.
Comment
Bloomfield opinion: A good friend is there for you
Bloomfield Life
A friendship is the most beautiful thing two people can share.
Comment
Belleville opinion: Birthday wishes and 'Just a Party' returns for ninth year in September
Belleville Times
Just when I think I could not find any more Silver Lake residents in their 90s, another one emerges. How could I forget Assunta (Sue) Pipitone, as we affectionately call her?
Comment
Jul 31, 2013
A too frequent, easy to refuse invitation
Ridgewood Suburban News
There are few invitations I refuse, but the request to "join the conversation" about a news story by posting comments online, on Twitter or Facebook is a request I choose to decline. First, many people who share their views via keystroke are too often ...
Comment
Jul 29, 2013
Oradell Then and Now: Celebrating America and my town
Town News
Columnist says the borough's Fourth of July spirit is still with her.
Comment
Doblin: Christie goes down slippery slope in Aspen
The Record
Governor Christie went to Aspen to reenact the Manhattan Project. Speaking at the Aspen Institute in Colorado, the governor went nuclear on Sen. Rand Paul, the libertarian in Republican's ...
Comment
Planning a random act of kindness
Suburban Trends
In his column "View from the Grass Roots," Gregory Rummo tells how an overabundance of food led to a random act of kindness during a family vacation in Montreal, Canada.
Comment
Bits ' N Pieces: Howard Ball's column from July 27, 2008
Suburban Trends
Suburban Trends' column tells how cancer can have its survivors
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