Archive for: Hall
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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VIDEO: In search of Obama
By Douglas E. Hall It began with a tip I received: The president was coming to Cresskill on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 6, and would attend a fund raising dinner in a private home. It took a little further digging to determine that he was scheduled to arrive at 3 p.m. and would land in the [...]
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Federal aid, we really need
By Douglas E. Hall It’s about money. It’s about money. It’s about money. I hate to be redundant, but that’s the problem in a nutshell. It’s very nice that the Regional Plan Association (RPA) came up with a study showing that the Access to the Region’s Core rail tunnel from New Jersey to Manhattan would shave [...]
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It’s all about money
By Douglas E. Hall I don’t know if Governor Christie is: A. A shrewd gambler, B. An office holder who takes his fiduciary responsibility very seriously, C. a fool hearty ideologue. I’d like to think he’s a shrewd gambler, who’s cancellation on Thursday, Oct. 7, of the second rail tunnel under the Hudson River to [...]
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