By Mark Fuller on October 26, 2007
With the tentative agreement reached in the General Motors strike, the biggest news is not that organized labor won out, but that it is dying. That is good news for me because I like buying American, and there was no way GM was going to be making any car I would want if they were [...]
Posted in National | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
By Mark Fuller on February 1, 2007
New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine delivered his annual State of the State address on January 9. While many items were on the agenda, fiscal issues remained the most pressing and included New Jersey’s highest in the nation property taxes and budgetary shortfalls. Perhaps some of those nasty highways, including the infamous Turnpike, could [...]
Posted in National | Tagged February 2007, Volume V Number V
By Mark Fuller on November 16, 2006
On the 25th of October, the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey issued their ruling on Mark Lewis and Dennis Winslow, et al. v. Gwendolyn L. Harris, etc., et al. (A-68-05), the Garden State’s equivalent of so many other suits for gay marriage. They reached a conservative 4-3 decision. Relatively conservative, [...]
Posted in National | Tagged November 2006, Thanksgiving, Volume V Number IV
By Mark Fuller on October 20, 2006
I discovered recently in my email a message forwarded many times over containing an article meant to provoke thoughtful discussion. The article was entitled “What is it We Should Celebrate?” by Charley Trujillo and appeared on the editorial page of the San Jose Mercury News on September 29, 1992. The editorial, being written for the [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2006, Parents’ Weekend, Volume V Number III