Twenty years ago I ran an arts festival that all took place in 30-plus venues at the same time for 9 hours on New Years Eve 1997 in Flemington. Ours was the smallest town ever to have a First Night. But it…
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Poem by Carl Sandburg, undated and unpublished, found recently in the Sandburg archives at University of Illinois. Sandburg died in 1967. Hat/tip Adrian DeVore. Today: Frelinghuysen’s Columbus Day Sell-Out! (Also, DNC Chair Tom Perez in NJ, read below) Monarch butterflies are migrating….
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** Actually, I believe Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Trump a “fucking moron.” Accuracy is important. And here’s the Paper Towel-Toss from this Saturday’s People’s Motorcade, led weekly with relish by Jim Girvan (thanks, Jim), with video from my…
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Mark Murphy’s Oct. 8 cartoon BEAUTIFUL SNL’s cold open last night was Jason Aldean, “struggling to understand what happened that night” and singing Tom Petty’s I Won’t Back Down. CAMPAIGNS You’ve already heard from Confederate flag-posting GOP Assemblyman Parker Space, who got caught…
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NATIONAL Trump says property tax deduction has rest of America subsidizing NJ. He’s wrong. (Salant, NJ.com) The Second Amendment is 145 characters. How would you rewrite it? SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch tries to lecture the Court on civics, Ruth Bader…
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This is a Handmaid’s Tale Resistance demonstration, today outside the Freehold offices of anti-choice Republican zealot Rep. Chris Smith. We have video, posted at District 4 Coalition for Change (Facebook); video I believe was taken by my friend Jim Tobias….
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If Chris Christie’s TV commercials talking opioid addiction with addicts make you feel all warm and grateful, be aware that as much as his new obsession is about helping, he’s also out to fix his legacy problem. He wants us…
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I love an idea my friend Jackie Cornell came up with this morning: Dear Facebook – I’d love an algorithm that when someone starts typing “Thoughts and prayers…” a pop up asks, “What is the date of the next election?…
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Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign and Donald Trump’s election have both pumped so much vitality into New Jersey’s already vigorous base. There’s so much organizing and civic education going on in all parts of New Jersey, and new leadership emerging, even…
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Miranda probably wasn’t wearing the ruffled shirt when he said it. This is Sunday’s Daily News front page. Overnight, the deadliest mass shooting in modern history, at a music festival in Las Vegas with more than 40,000 in the audience; 50…
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