Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet
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How NJ achieved its high tax status
Arthur G. Mattei of Lawrenceville Now that New Jersey is announced as having the highest property taxes in the nation, along with a punitive income tax and sales tax, it might be well to reflect how we got to where we are. When some 40 or more years ago New Jersey began to grow…
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Unimpressed by Tom Ridge book
Ronald A. LeMahieu of Princeton I heard Tom Ridge, the former secretary of Homeland Security, speak about his new book at Barnes and Noble on Sept. 21. Hearing him reinforced my opinion that everything in the George W. Bush administration was political. The Department of Homeland Security was highly politicized under Mr. Ridge, who…
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Household budgets suffer under Corzine
Kim Taylor of Lawrence Recently Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-Ewing, applauded the Corzine administration and congratulated herself for the increased number of New Jersey children now covered by health insurance. Children’s health and access to quality affordable healthcare are issues of paramount concern to me, and the absence of access to health care greatly affects…
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PRINCETON AREA: Community Calendar: Sept. 25 – Oct. 4, 2009
Friday, Sept. 25 “Crossing the Finish Line”: William G. Bowen, former president of Princeton University, and Matthew Chingos, a research associate at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will discuss their new book on public higher education, “Crossing the Finish Line,” at Princeton Public Library at 7:30 p.m. Subtitled “Completing College at America’s Public Universities,”…
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PRINCETON: Bibliophilia! Princeton Public Library’s annual book sale Oct. 2 through 4
The Friends of the Princeton Public Library Annual Book Sale, taking place from Friday, Oct. 2, to Sunday, Oct. 4, will feature books of special interest donated from the libraries of Civil War historian James McPherson, novelist and translator Edmund Keeley, and pioneer in psychology and cognitive science George Armitage Miller, all professors emeriti…
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PRINCETON: Bibliophilia! Princeton Public Library’s annual book sale Oct. 2 through 4
Members of the Friends of the Princeton Public Library Book Sale Committee, seated, from left: Rashma Sharma; Book Sale co-chair Eve Niedergang; Julia Coale, and Jeanine Rosen; second row, from left: Greenie Neuburg; Helen Schwartz; Darryl Kestler; Wendy Pierce Evans, and Book Sale co-chair Bruce Kemp; third row, from left: Roslyn Vanderbilt; Book Sale co-chair…
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Cast a ‘yes’ vote for new fire trucks
Thomas C. Healey of Plainsboro On Saturday from 2 p.m. to 9 p.m., Plainsboro voters will be asked to vote on a proposal by the Board of Fire Commissioners to replace two pieces of fire apparatus that are more than 30 years old. I’m writing this letter to urge your support of this referendum. Plainsboro…
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Let’s get town’s assets moving
Pete Weale of West Windsor Plans, plans, plans. “A plan is not leadership. Leadership is getting people to act on that plan.” H. Fisk Johnson West Windsor is, and has been, planned to a slow demise by its long-time political demagogues. No-bid professional service contracts rule a landscape in which little gets accomplished. And…
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Proud support for Assembly candidates
Arthur A. Roedel Jr. of Monmouth Junction I am proud to support Democrat Assembly members Linda Greenstein and Wayne DeAngelo for re-election in November. Linda Greenstein is an intelligent, reform-minded leader. She has sponsored nearly every anti-corruption bill that has come out of the Legislature, even when comprehensive reform was unpopular within her own party.…
