Barry Fey, legendary Colorado concert promoter, dies at 73
Source: The Denver Post
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-04-29 06:56:16 -0700 | political-news
The cause of death was not immediately available, but Fey told The Denver Post last week that he was recovering from hip replacement surgery. "Barry Fey is one of the giants of a generation," said William Dean Singleton, chairman and...
Why Your Supermarket Only Sells Five Kinds of Apples
Source: Mother Jones
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-04-26 03:27:06 -0700 | political-news
Last September, once again, they covered every possible size, shape, and color in the wide world of appleness. There was a gnarled little yellow thing called a Westfield Seek-No-Further; a purplish plum impostor called a Black Oxford; a massive, red-streaked...
AC Transit cancels plan to raise fares, agrees to study possible decrease
Source: The Berkeley Voice
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-04-25 15:08:31 -0700 | political-news
AC Transit has canceled plans for a July 1 bus fare increase, and may consider lowering its fares instead. With bus system ridership and revenues on the increase, the AC Transit board voted unanimously Wednesday night to rescind a plan...
The Learning Network Blog: Test Yourself | Math, April 22, 2013
Source: The New York Times
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 13:55:32 -0700 | political-news
Archive Recent Posts April 22 What events led to the death of one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing and the capture of another? April 22 Can you calculate the total value that was lost in a single day in...
Opinion: In Memory of a Friend, Teacher and Mentor
Source: The New York Times
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-04-20 14:08:09 -0700 | political-news
April 20, 2013 I WAS 12 years old when I entered the Hawthorne Avenue Annex in February 1946. The Annex, a 15-minute bus ride for me from the main high school, was where you went in those days as a...
MSM complicit and irresponsible in not reporting on the prostitution story involving NJ Senator Bob ...
Posted by: Redhanded
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-02-04 15:34:22 -0800 | political-news
The sex scandal involving Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been circulating since back in April of 2012 and has even gotten into the hands of a couple of investigative reporters at ABC News where it apparently went to die. When...
Drawing of slave woman having sex with master draws fire, reconciliation
Posted by:
Herbert Dyer, Jr.
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-02-10 02:51:50 -0800 | political-news
According to a recent report by the Newark Star-Ledger, Newark Library has decided to leave uncovered a controversial drawing that originally sparked protests and complaints from staffers and the public. Displayed in the library’s second-floor reference room, the drawing, which...
NRA's ad hits President Obama below the belt
Posted by: Mary Grace Keiner
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-01-21 12:33:55 -0800 | political-news
President Obama's toughest foe against his gun control law just hits him below the belt, when NRA's ad dragged the President's children. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie strongly condemned NRA's ad, which politically mentioned one's public figure children, like President...
Newark's Booker offers $1,000 for turning in illegal gun-owning neighbors (Video)
Posted by: VeronicaS
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-01-10 14:06:06 -0800 | political-news
As the gun debate rages on after the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, many measures -- some controversial -- are being implemented in states across the US. One that is being talked about is from Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J....
New Jersey woman accuses husband of plot to blow up jetliner
Posted by: Herbert Dyer, Jr.
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-03-20 10:46:31 -0700 | political-news
As if the East Coast has not suffered enough this year, an obviously disturbed New Jersey woman falsely accused her husband of planning to blow up an airplane at the Newark Airport on Saturday. The threat was made to Newark...
Mayor Booker’s one week on food stamps: Self-serving stunt or spotlight for change?
Posted by:
VeronicaS
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2012-11-30 11:07:57 -0800 | political-news
I am always leery when high-profile folks take on “causes” for short periods of time: You know, living like others do in the name of undergoing the same experiences. Remember talk show host Tyra Banks’s “fat suit” or “homeless living”...
Newark Mayor to go on food stamps for a week
Posted by:
Herbert Dyer, Jr.
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2013-03-03 13:20:09 -0800 | political-news
Mayor Cory Booker pf Newark, N.J., has today confirmed that he will live on nothing but food stamps the week of Dec. 4-11. Booker decided to take the “food stamp challenge” after tweeting with a woman who calls herself TwitWit....
With six days left in the elections, Obama still touring storm ravaged areas
Posted by: wendyzachary
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2012-11-04 16:33:59 -0800 | political-news
President Barack Obama is busy doing his duties with less than a week from the general elections. He visited the storm hit areas for a fourth consecutive day and told the Sandy victims in New Jersey that the government is...
The project would not be changed for Military withdrawal from Afghanistan, Rasmussen
Posted by: gureyajanu
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2012-09-19 02:42:27 -0700 | political-news
Secretary General of organization of North Atlantic, NATO, Fogg Rasmussen explained that after attack on NATO soldiers from Afghan officials the withdrawal from war-torn country would not happen before time. Nor there would be any change in plan of withdrawal...
Cory Booker bangs Obama campaign’s ad attacking Romney’s work for Bain Capital
Posted by: Jennifer Rees
Newark :: NJ :: USA | updated 2012-07-27 15:14:31 -0700 | political-news
Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Sunday said that he felt uncomfortable with President Obama’s campaign ad attacking Mitt Romney’s services for Bain Capital. Booker, an important ally of Obama in the forthcoming election, said that the Obama camp’s drive to...
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