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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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BergenPac not likely to get public funding
By Douglas E. Hall The 11th-hour plans of a lame-duck; Democrat-controlled Board of Freeholders to rescue the financially-ailing BergenPAC will probably come to naught, even if a suit filed by Republican County Executive-elect Kathleen Donovan against the Democrats plan is found to be without merit. That’s because the ordinances passed by the lame-duck Freeholders to [...]
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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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The dark future ahead
By Douglas E. Hall Thursday, Dec. 16 was a historic day for our nation. Two things took place signaling, a major shift in the way we, as a nation, govern ourselves. Following the action of the Senate that took place on the day before, the House of Representatives approved a tax bill that extends the [...]
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Government: Patron of arts as last resort?
By: Douglas E. Hall These are tough times for many segments of our society. Theater is no exception and many centers of our culture and art are suffering. BergenPAC in Englewood is no exception. It’s a problem that plagues many institutions as well as individuals in a down economy: Too much debt with too little [...]
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The feds send us a bill
By Douglas E. Hall It isn’t easy being a Republican governor with a Democratic administration in Washington – especially when the State of New Jersey is one Democrats used to count on being true blue, all the way through – and especially when the governor is an outspoken aggressive guy who has been around the [...]
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Subway to Secaucus
Wow! Who would have thought the cancellation of the ARC tunnel under the Hudson River, designed to double rail capacity between New Jersey and New York, would have spawned such a good idea. But that’s just what has happened. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who kept out of any involvement between New Jersey and [...]
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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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