Category: opinion/the_princeton_packet

Age 55 vs. 62 is not about environment    The environmental impact of a proposed age-restricted housing project on Bunn Drive is an important policy question for Princeton Township. But so is the question of whether 62 is a commercially viable age threshold for market-rate senior housing in Princeton.    The issues are separate and distinct. The…

   Over the years, the complexion of the New Jersey Legislature has occasionally undergone some sudden and dramatic changes.    In 1967, for example, after the Supreme Court’s historic “one-man, one-vote” ruling expanded the state Senate from 21 to 40 members and the Assembly from 60 to 80, Republicans won 31 seats in the upper house and…

Lori Singer of Princeton    My sister and her family came to my home in Princeton for a visit over New Year’s holiday. Because they planned to stay the weekend, they brought along their pet cockatiel, Wally. As they were transporting Wally from the car to the house, the bottom fell off of his cage. Wally…

   Kimberly Green could face up to 50 years in jail if she is convicted for her role in a Route 1 traffic accident last week.    And yet, she is the lucky one.    The 32-year-old Somerset woman survived. Kylie Pinheiro, 18, of Dayton, wasn’t so lucky.    That’s why the Middlesex County prosecutor has charged Ms. Green…

   So 2008 has finally arrived — and with it all the new and exciting challenges every new year brings, along with a fair amount of unfinished business the old year has left behind.    As one of those years that happens to be divisible by four, 2008 promises to be unusually eventful in the political arena…

The following was published Sept. 21, 1897 in The New York Sun. The editorial was written by the newspaper’s assistant editor, Francis P. Church.      Is There a Santa Claus?     We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered…

“I heard the bells on Christmas day Their old familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good will to men.” —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863.     Alarm over all considerations of the proper place, recipients and composition of Christmas greetings has become just another wrench in the toolkit of ideological…

By Vanessa Holt    It seemed to happen all at once.    One day, I went out to run a few simple errands and I think I came home with 30 different plastic bags. I bought a single greeting card. Got it in a plastic bag. I bought a gallon of milk and some eggs — got…

   Another year, another school funding formula.    That’s pretty much how we keep track of time here in New Jersey.    Ever since 1973, when the state Supreme Court declared the state’s method of funding the public schools unconstitutional, a succession of governors and legislators has grappled with the vexing problem of how to make New Jersey’s…