Archive for: Douglas Hall
Nancy Merse 1931-2011
By Douglas E. Hall When you think about it, serving the public in an elected office really is a tough job. I’d say it’s more so when one considers this work on a municipal level. Starting at the top, being president of the United States may be the toughest job around, but the president has [...]
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Jane Russell among others
By Douglas E. Hall For the ten years I’ve been writing this column, I’ve taken the opportunity to write tributes upon their death to some of the 300 show business personalities I interviewed back in the 1980s when I was producing radio programming and interviewing the stars who in one way of another made music [...]
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The things we eat
By Douglas E. Hall The fertile farm fields in the Willamette Valley of Oregon may not seem a legal battlefield over genetically modified produce, but it is. The Willamette Valley is the heart of Oregon’s agriculture country. During spring and summer growing seasons, roadside stands dot the country lanes, and farmers’ markets appear in the [...]
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Calling Dr. Kevorkian
By Douglas E. Hall Death panels? Oh my. President Obama said last summer that he’d never want to pull the plug on Grandma, but some people paying attention to rule- making coming out of the White House think that’s just what the Obama administration has in mind. The New York Times broke this story as [...]
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A break for the adopted
By Douglas E. Hall Adoption is a subject that, to most people, is a sensible win-win solution for children who have no parents (at least parents who are available) and traditionally married couples who have been unable to have children. For those involved – adoptees and adopters it is not so simple. I come to [...]
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Putting skids under Christie?
By Douglas E. Hall So the Feds want their money back, all $271 million, plus interest and penalties. That’s chutzpah. The federal government wants their investment into building the ARC rail tunnel under the Hudson from New Jersey to Manhattan because they claim Governor Christie pulled the plug on the $8.7 billion Access to the [...]
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Old grudges continue
By Douglas E. Hall County Democrats took a drubbing in the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 2. Every possible Democrat that could be voted out of office on a county level was. It was apparent the ticket headed by Dennis McNerney, who was seeking a third four-year term as county executive, was in trouble when [...]
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One way or another — getting a tunnel
By Douglas E. Hall The ARC tunnel is dead. Long live tunnel planners, for we can do better. There are no New Jersey commuters who wanted a rail tunnel that would take them to Macy’s basement. They want a tunnel that would take them to Penn/Moynihan Station and maybe across Manhattan to Grand Central Terminal. [...]
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In defense of free speech
By Douglas E. Hall “Honesty is the best policy” is so ingrained in most human thought that it is accepted as almost an axiom. Yet we all know that in certain situations to speak the truth is to invite trouble. Such was the fate of Juan Williams, National Public Radio commentator, when as a guest [...]
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Edgewater’s Washington School yields to wrecking ball
By Douglas E. Hall EDGEWATER – Demolition work continues on the George Washington School and should be completed by the end of the month. There will be a presentation by the Board of Education on the work that is being done on the school property on River Road at Orchard Street on Thursday, Oct. 28, [...]
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