Opinion Forum

Toxic Trails

July 15th, 2011

By Jan Barry Residents of a once-isolated mountain community in Ringwood, NJ have a bone-chilling tale to tell the rest of America. And HBO is offering its cable television services to help convey this story via a new documentary called Mann v. Ford. Highlighting the community’s fight against a plague of illness and deaths they […]

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Tags: cancer, children, deaths, EPA, Ford, lawsuit, New Jersey, superfund, toxic
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American-Made Mayhem

January 20th, 2011

By Jan Barry The good people of Tucson, Arizona are still reeling from the massacre in a shopping mall a few days ago that killed six public-spirited citizens and wounded 13 other folks including a popular congresswoman. Horrendous and heartbreaking as it was, it was just the latest outbreak of a peculiar American ritual. Given […]

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Tags: Arizona, Earth Songs, handguns, New Jersey, post office, shooting, violence
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Fighting the Good Fight

May 14th, 2010

By Tom Carter At a time when the U.S. is running huge deficits and sliding further and further into long-term debt, one courageous governor is fighting the good fight regardless of the political costs. According to an article in The Hill, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey is fighting a determined battle to cut spending […]

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Tags: budget, Christie, Corzine, deficit, New Jersey, spending, taxes
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Kinky and Political Theater

November 4th, 2009

By Tom Carter The most delicious political news is that Kinky Friedman is running for governor of Texas again! He’ll be running in the Democratic primary, and he’s convinced that he can beat either incumbent Governor Rick Perry or Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, depending on which of them wins the Republican primary, which he calls […]

Articles written by Tom Carter
Tags: elections, Kinky Friedman, New Jersey, stimulus, V, Virginia
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