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Left Out By frank Capece Sylvia Weisbrot as usual had the best seat in Union on Monday evening. As an official time keeper for the League of Women Voters local debates over the past thirty years, the...
View ArticleDon’t run and please don’t lean on the barriers
Left Out By Frank Capece By Saturday evening the biggest line at the Target Store in Union on Route 22 was at the small little Pizza Hut near the entrance. Quite a difference from 48 hours prior when...
View ArticleA bunker mentality in Cranford
Left Out By Frank Capece They had a contentious town meeting in Cranford last week regarding the status of Chief of Police Eric Mason and others caught up in the swirl of vacant positions in the local...
View ArticleGreeting and Humbugs in Union County
Left Out By Frank Capece The list of “Greetings and Humbugs” in Union County seems to grow each year. So without further delay, let’s get started. Greetings to Liz Weishapl from Union. For the past...
View ArticleA passion for books in Union County
Left Out By Frank Capece The passion for books of Lois Cantwell and Andrea Hirschfeld is undoubtedly shared by many. Their Union operation, bookBgone, makes their passion special and their hard work...
View ArticlePractice what you preach
In a day and age when the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has his own 21st century pulpit, a Twitter feed, why is it so difficult for the Archbishop of Newark to grant an audience...
View ArticleYou wouldn’t ask a paralegal to sit in as judge
In recent months the question of what it takes to meet the standards of a journalist hit the headlines when Tina Renna, activist, blogger and president of the Union County Watchdog Association, asked...
View ArticleVoters make the case for Freeholder Districts in Union County
If anything came out of the Republican loss for the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders, it was the need for freeholder districts. During the freeholder debates, hosted by the Union County League...
View ArticleMerry Christmas
EDITORIAL On Dec. 25, people around the world celebrate Christmas and the birth of Jesus Christ. Literally meaning Christ’s Mass, the phrase derives from Middle English and Old English and traces its...
View ArticleAmerica needs the Fair Tax, not more fiddling with the tax code
By Robert C. McNair Some 150 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: “The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”...
View ArticleEndorsements: It’s business, not personal
UNION COUNTY — Although endorsements for municipal and board of education races usually show up in an editorial on the opposite page, this year LocalSource is breaking with tradition. It would be...
View ArticleDon’t run and please don’t lean on the barriers
Left Out By Frank Capece By Saturday evening the biggest line at the Target Store in Union on Route 22 was at the small little Pizza Hut near the entrance. Quite a difference from 48 hours prior when...
View ArticleA bunker mentality in Cranford
Left Out By Frank Capece They had a contentious town meeting in Cranford last week regarding the status of Chief of Police Eric Mason and others caught up in the swirl of vacant positions in the local...
View ArticleGreeting and Humbugs in Union County
Left Out By Frank Capece The list of “Greetings and Humbugs” in Union County seems to grow each year. So without further delay, let’s get started. Greetings to Liz Weishapl from Union. For the past...
View ArticleA passion for books in Union County
Left Out By Frank Capece The passion for books of Lois Cantwell and Andrea Hirschfeld is undoubtedly shared by many. Their Union operation, bookBgone, makes their passion special and their hard work...
View ArticlePractice what you preach
In a day and age when the head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI, has his own 21st century pulpit, a Twitter feed, why is it so difficult for the Archbishop of Newark to grant an audience...
View ArticleYou wouldn’t ask a paralegal to sit in as judge
In recent months the question of what it takes to meet the standards of a journalist hit the headlines when Tina Renna, activist, blogger and president of the Union County Watchdog Association, asked...
View ArticleVoters make the case for Freeholder Districts in Union County
If anything came out of the Republican loss for the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders, it was the need for freeholder districts. During the freeholder debates, hosted by the Union County League...
View ArticleMerry Christmas
EDITORIAL On Dec. 25, people around the world celebrate Christmas and the birth of Jesus Christ. Literally meaning Christ’s Mass, the phrase derives from Middle English and Old English and traces its...
View ArticleAmerica needs the Fair Tax, not more fiddling with the tax code
By Robert C. McNair Some 150 years ago, Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: “The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.”...
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