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On marriage, gay and otherwise
Published: 11/19/09
I’m married. To a woman. In what opponents of gay marriage like to call a “traditional marriage” that “upholds …
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$10 million to train people for casino jobs? What jobs?
Published: 11/18/09
Can you spend too much public money on training workers for the casino and hospitality industries?
Crime in Atlantic City: Perception vs. reality
Published: 11/16/09
Anthony Marino has been around for a while. He is a retired South Jersey Transportation Authority administrator and an …
Bad storm, a missing boat and no night to be in the Coast Guard
Posted: 11/12/09
3 p.m. update:
Hey, Chris: Just cancel the inaugural parties
Published: 11/11/09
Because of what is being called a legislative oversight, the state’s pay-to-play rules do not apply to inaugural comm…
Fat kids
Published: 11/09/09
When I went to Atlantic City High School in the 1970s, the breakfast of choice in my homeroom seemed to be orange soda …
What's a few dead birds?
Published: 11/06/09
I like birds. I can tell a snowy egret from a glossy ibis. (Yeah, one's white and the other's black, but still ...)
OK, Chris Christie - you got the ball
Published: 11/04/09
I like Jon Corzine. I think his heart is in the right place. I think he is in politics, and has spent millions upon mil…
Question: What percentage of U.S. children will get food stamps at some point in their childhoods?
Posted: 11/03/09
I found this shocking. According to an analysis published in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescen…
The teachers are coming, the teachers are coming
Published: 11/02/09
Yes, it's that time - the annual teachers convention in Atlantic City. Kids get two days off from school, as an estimat…
Pssst ... did you hear about Sasha and Malia and the swine-flu vaccine!
Published: 10/30/09
Can Barack Obama's critics get any meaner?
Baseball and the governor's race: South Jersey gets stiffed
Published: 10/29/09
Phillies? Or Yankees?
Afghanistan ... yes, Afghanistan
Published: 10/28/09
Regular readers (I have some, right?) probably have noticed that I don't take myself too seriously, and I don't often w…
Do the region a favor: Fly out of ACY
Published: 10/26/09
The good news is that
What's the Monopoly World Championship doing in Las Vegas?
Published: 10/23/09
So here's the first paragraph of an Associated Press story on the wire this morning:
Ray Kot, a unique soul
Published: 10/21/09
Nine times out of 10, when someone dies an untimely death, friends, neighbors and coworkers tell reporters what a great…
It's all the DEP's fault? What nonsense
Posted: 10/19/09
Ah, campaign season, the time of year when the leaves turn color and candidates for state Legislature tell you how they…
Speaking of a three-day (or four-day) northeaster, any Hemingway fans out there?
Published: 10/17/09
Well, the fun's over. It's starting to feel like winter. And in the midst of our three-day (or four-day) northeaster he…
Sex and blackmail
Posted: 10/15/09
Sorry about that "Sex and blackmail" headline. This post isn't really about - not directly, anyway - the attempt to bla…
Success? In Atlantic City?
Posted: 10/14/09
Atlantic City can't ...
Health reform, Miami's Dr. Joe (and a guy named Spenser)
Posted: 10/13/09
I get most of my moral instruction from a guy up in Boston by the name of Spenser. True, he's not real. He's a fictiona…
Coaches and child molesters
Published: 10/12/09
Should youth sports leagues perform
An ode to Wawa
Posted: 10/11/09
Today's all-important question: How does Wawa do it?
Biden's trip to Atlantic City
Published: 10/08/09
It didn't bother me at all when Barack and Michelle Obama flew from Washington to New York for dinner and a show in May…
A Nobel Prize ... in Waretown?
Posted: 10/07/09
I love
Suggestion of a mob threat? An update
Posted: 10/05/09
Here's an update to the post below. Check out Donald Wittkowski's
Annoying bicyclists
Posted: 10/04/09
The MS City to Shore Ride goes by my house every year. The organizers do a great job - an excellent job, actually - mar…
Christie, Corzine ... and Bruuuuce!
Posted: 09/30/09
I was never prouder to be a Jersey-shore boy than on Oct. 27, 1975 - the day Bruce Springsteen appeared simultaneously …
Kindles instead of textbooks?
Published: 09/29/09
Note to "the Kindle will change the world" crowd: Maybe not.
Our children are drinking poisonous water!
Published: 09/28/09
Yes,
Who will save the Atlantic City Marathon?
Published: 09/25/09
What a shame about the
See Atlantic City ... in 1951
Published: 09/23/09
I know some people don't get the fascination that a lot of us South Jersey natives have with the old days in Atlantic C…
The 'czar' thing
Posted: 09/22/09
Dick Polman, of the Philadelphia Inquirer, had a great column Sunday on the right's outrage over President Obama's "cza…
Ban smoking on the beach?
Posted: 09/21/09
I'm about as anti-indoor-smoking as you can get. Your right to swing your fist ends at my nose ... and all that.
Sex in the firehouse
Published: 09/18/09
You know what I don't get about the whole sex-in-the-firehouse-with-young girls thing in Atlantic City?
A flag, and a nation, torn in two One image
Published: 09/17/09
Donna Rothman, of Avalon, sent in this picture. She said she and her husband, Craig, thought it demonstrated the nation…
VLTs for Blockbuster?
Published: 09/16/09
Blockbuster video-rental stores are going out of business.
Ban plastic bags? Fine with me
Published: 09/15/09
Ocean City is the latest town to consider banning the ubiquitous plastic bags used by stores. Of course, it's not clear…
Married to the mob
Posted: 09/14/09
Phyliss Merlino has a point. "Is this like life without parole?"
Corruption and you
Posted: 09/11/09
We have a great package of five guest columns on Sunday's Opinion pages on the issue of public corruption in New Jersey…
A speakeasy? In Pleasantville?
Published: 09/09/09
Damn, a speakeasy - in Pleasantville.
Good for Laura Bush
Published: 09/08/09
I like Laura Bush. Sure, she often seemed to have that deer-in-the-headlights, "Stepford Wives" look. But there have be…
Getting Revel finished
Posted: 09/07/09
Why syringes wash up on beaches
Published: 09/04/09
Let me try to bring some perspective to
The bandana-wearing, bow-and-arrow-toting bicyclist
Published: 09/03/09
Note to self:
Harry Klause: A good guy in my book
Published: 09/02/09
Having a Harry Klause sticker on the back of your car is a sign of being a true local. Many families have been buying c…
State-owned casinos in Kansas: Yo, professor ...
Published: 09/01/09
The state of Kansas plans to open three new casinos in addition to the four Indian casinos already operating in the sta…
Ted Kennedy: Lout or lion? (Or ... the nature of truth)
Published: 08/31/09
Most of what I know, I learned ... not in kindergarten - but by selecting the quotes in the Thought for the Day feature…
Reopen Bader Field? Hmmm ...
Published: 08/28/09
The Press published lots of editorials over the years urging that Bader Field be shut down. Too dangerous. Unnecessary …
Tracking a storm like Danny
Published: 08/27/09
I like weather. All kinds of weather. Good weather, bad weather. In 1984, I took my then 3-year-old son out for a walk …
Ted Kennedy and me: I apologize
Published: 08/26/09
Confession is good for the soul ... right?

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