Every Sept. 11, The History Channel (for once living up to its name) broadcasts actual history programming — dealing with the…
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We’re all in this together, folks
As we hurl headlong into another presidential nomination cycle, it’s an opportune time for all of us to step back…
Thoughts & Views: To celebrate wretched writing
In 1982, the English Department at California’s San Jose State University launched the annual Bulwer- Lytton Fiction Contest, inviting deliberately “wretched writers”…
Thoughts & Views: Refreshing paws on a summer day
If you don’t recognize the photo accompanying this column, you must have neither television nor Internet access. It’s a still…
Brother, can you spare a billion?
Puerto Rico is $70 billion in the hole and Greece is seeking approval from the European Union and the IMF…
Thoughts & Views: Get a horse!
No, I am not speaking about American Pharoah, although he has been in the headlines. (Congrats, Pharoah, on the recent Haskell…
Thoughts & Views: Can technology trigger trust?
For many communities today, distrust reigns between minorities and the local gendarmes. We have been focused on outcries from Staten…
Thoughts & Views: The kindness of strangers
Why is there a photo of the Geico gecko accompanying this column? Because he is my alter ego. At least…
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‘LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT I MEANT’ To the Editor: I write to explain my position that the…
Thoughts & Views: Some things on my mind …
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is playing the “Ugly American” role to the hilt, if news accounts about veiled efforts to…
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‘THINK TWICE BEFORE KILLING DOGS’ To the Editor: Every morning and night, I ride my skateboard to…
Thoughts & Views: Straight from the shark’s mouth
Following our June 24 column, in which we celebrated the 40th anniversary of “Jaws,” we received a call from an Observer…
Remembering Tom MacFarland
For those too young to remember, or for those who didn’t follow politics in Kearny long ago, Tom MacFarland was…
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‘GOOD LUCK, GLOVERS’ To the Editor: Your article in the June 24 edition of The Observer on the…
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‘GIVE YOUNG KIDS MORE TO DO IN NA’ To the Editor: I have been a North…