Category: opinion

By Huck Fairman  The town of Princeton, led by its recycling coordinator Janet Pellichero and John Marshall, president of the Princeton Merchants’ Association, is about to launch a new recycling bin campaign for downtown Princeton. The Public Works Department will be placing 10 new bins along Nassau and Witherspoon streets. These bins will have…

 What’s become an annual tradition returned to Princeton last weekend, the Joint Effort-Princeton Pete Young Sr. Memorial Safe Streets Weekend. The event has been the creation of John Bailey, who grew up in Princeton and South Brunswick, but now lives and works in Denver. Begun as a basketball game, the event has grown into…

By Huck Fairman  Princeton resident, founder and lead instructor at YogaStream on Spring Street, Lara Heimann has long sought to combine her interests in anatomy, creative movement, positive thinking, harmony, and the world. And she has succeeded, by creating yoga with a difference — indeed a yoga revolution. Her approach is to see yoga…

Princeton residents received good news this week, learning they will have a way to get to the hospital in Plainsboro once NJ Transit ends the bus route that serves the hospital on Sept. 1. Princeton University has agreed to add a stop on its TigerTransit bus route that serves Princeton HealthCare System’s complex in Plainsboro.…

By Anne Waldron Neumann It’s summer: time for hobbies! But have you ever been embarrassed by one of your hobbies — ashamed to tell even close friends, for example? One American dictionary defines “hobby” as a “pursuit outside one’s regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation.” Isn’t there something inherently undignified — especially for Americans…

The Rev. Robert Moore  On July 14, after nearly two years of tough negotiations, an agreement on the Iran nuclear issue was reached. For obviously partisan reasons, many Republicans came out against the agreement before it was even delivered to them. On Aug. 6, the Senate’s third ranking Democrat, Chuck Schumer, also came out…

It’s that time of the summer when camps begin to wind down, summer jobs begin to wrap up, and families find a way to take a vacation out of the area. But it’s also the time when the Red Cross knows that a blood shortage is coming. The organization has issued a call for blood…

John Clearwater The political language of our world is full of wordy ideology and absent concepts of governance. To understand the present chaotic political situation one must clarify the real meaning of those words in terms of underlying ethical principles and their political implications in assuring individual rights in a democratic republic. The current ethical…