Category: lifestyle/the_princeton_packet

  • Princeton U plans and Alexander Road

    Joel S. Greenberg of Princeton     Princeton University is in the planning stage for a massive expansion that will lead to a reshaping of the downtown Princeton area; in particular major changes are planned to the infrastructure in the area around Alexander Road. It is likely that the planned changes will, or could, result in…

  • McCain’s VP pick insults the nation

    Newton E. Godnick of West Windsor     The vice presidency of the United States is no longer the “bucket of warm spit” cited by Jack Garner, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first vice president. In recent years it has become crucial — Gore for good, Cheney for evil, but crucial nevertheless.    Sen. McCain, for all his past…

  • West Windsor Council finally acts

    Halle Madia of West Windsor     It was a pleasure to read a recent news report that says West Windsor council is finally seeing through the weeds and pushing redevelopment forward at the Princeton Junction train station. As a resident who lives within walking distance to the train (and grateful that I do because I…

  • Media fails to question Obama

    Steve Allen of Montgomery     I encourage New Jersey residents to consider some questions about Barack Obama as we move toward the presidential election in November. These are tough questions that, to my knowledge, no one in the media has asked Sen. Obama.    First, why does Sen. Obama associate himself with University of Illinois professor…

  • Scheme to steal votes from Obama

    Mary Ellen Marino of Princeton     The story is all over progressive talk radio about the McCain campaign sending absentee ballot applications to registered Democrats or people that have donated to Sen. Obama’s campaign. These ballots are deliberately misleading and have postage paid return addresses that are for an election clerk that is outside of…

  • We need McCain and a GOP Congress

    T.B. Fisher of Princeton    This country has a serious problem with the economy and the root cause of our troubles is the fast rising cost of energy which affects every aspect of life, from the fuel we use, to the products we buy, to the food we need, to the availability of jobs. How…

  • West Windsor’s green event a success

    Councilwoman Heidi Kleinman of West Windsor     GroWW — Greening West Windsor Environmental Education Fair on Saturday was first envisioned last February as a way to display the environmental initiations happening through our township to protect our natural resources. As a township we have embarked on a path to develop a Sustainability Plan for our…

  • West Windsor council wrong on station

    Sam Greco of West Windsor     I have been very encouraged by the recent letters that have been submitted questioning the wisdom of the West Windsor Council and mayor on their endeavor to redevelop the railroad train station — whose main purpose will be to attract more commuters at the expense of serious tax consequences…

  • Here comes the Italian festival!

    New this year will be a near-life-sized working replica of Rome’s renowned Trevi Fountain …     The ninth annual Mercer County Italian American Festival — New Jersey’s largest Italian American festival — will take place Sept. 26, 27 and 28, 2008 in Mercer County Park, West Windsor.     Named as one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s…