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[Editors note: This piece originally ran as the lead article in the April 14, 2012 NJ Highlands News email newsletter, and is being posted “retroactively” to the blog on August 2, 2012, since it did not post as intended at the time it was written. With apologies for that oversight.] I’m straying a little from […] Photo courtesy Bill Wolfe ©2012 The National Park Service (NPS) is expected to announce its “preferred alternative” for the Susquehanna-Roseland transmission line by the end of March. The transmission line which runs across the Delaware River and Appalachian Trail and through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area is slated for a major […] Police intervention in a public meeting – despite inappropriateness of citizen’s behavior – is disheartening for anyone who values free speech. It was like Déjà vu all over again. But this time, it seemed to be over in the blink of an eye. On March 19, 2009, Harold “Hal” Danielson, a Summit, NJ resident who […] “I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure” – Mark Twain Back in 2009, I wrote this very brief post for an e-newsletter I distribute daily, and today seems to be a perfect day to bring it back out and dust it off. I’m still wearing the band, […] Highlanders: Time for one of my Weekend Edition rants. Please take special notice to Jeff Tittel’s OpEd, “Tea Party trashing NJ with anti-environmental agenda used by Gov. Christie” and “Maine Gov. LePage: Loosen rules on environment” and “Paul LePage, new Maine guv, takes aim at the environment” as they all point out a disturbing trend […] “We never entered [politics] believing that we were taking our lives in our hands…we’re feeding anger, hatred, and division for quite a while. Maybe it is time for elected officials and leaders in this country that have been feeding that disease to realize that there are consequences to it. I hope people stop and think […] “These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with […] OpEd piece by Nancy Shukaitis and Scott Olson on the proposed PSE&G Susquehanna-Roseland power line project and its potential impacts on the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. […] |