While running errands last week, I discovered that I had misplaced my favorite cloth face mask. First I scoured the interior of my car. Not there. Then I pawed through the packages in the trunk. Not there either. Unwilling to accept the inevitable, I went through the car a second […]
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Do you have a plan in place for wildfire season? (Opinion)
Brian Formisano As the Tahoe region continues to deal with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s important to recognize that other emergencies, such as wildfires, can still occur throughout the year — often with little or no warning. When these events happen, safety is the number one priority leaving […]
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Opinion | Adji Sarr-Ousmane Sonko allegations: In Senegal, women’s bodies have become a political battleground
Sonko, a 46-year-old member of parliament and a major challenger to President Macky Sall, is accused of raping Sarr on a visit to a massage parlor at night and in the middle of a pandemic curfew, to ease what he claims to be a medically diagnosed acute back pain. The […]
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Young people can help us build back better with conservation projects | Opinion
By Michael Muckle As the new administration takes the reins, vaccinations ramp up, and an economic recovery comes into view, it’s time to talk about what “Build Back Better” means here in New Jersey. At New Jersey Youth Corps, we have proven solutions that do triple duty: educating minds, providing […]
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Opinion: 5 ways to make this year better than last year
Welcome to 2021, finally. Though plenty of challenges remain, there is something reassuring about the promise of a new year. Specifically, the coronavirus vaccine is a shooting star to which many of us are attaching our hopes for better, healthier, and more prosperous days. Among all its hard lessons, 2020 […]
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Opinion | Covid-19 has wreaked havoc on young people’s lives. We owe it to them to see this through.
It has wreaked havoc on their lives. Closed schools. Interrupted access to free lunch and essential technology. Canceled activities. Forced an inability to hang out with friends. In the United States’ desire to return to “normal” last year, we deprioritized young people. We floundered through decisions on closing schools and […]
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A More Circular Fashion Industry Will Require a Collective Effort | Opinion
This article appeared first in The State of Fashion 2021, an in-depth report on the global fashion industry, co-published by BoF and McKinsey & Company. To learn more and download a copy of the report, click here. When it comes to protecting the environment, the fashion industry knows that “less […]
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Our favorite op-eds from readers in 2020 | Opinion
There were plenty of opinions in 2020. Should the president be impeached? Should we shut down the economy? How do we make Black lives matter? Should we replace a U.S. Supreme Court justice in the twilight of a president’s term? And we published hundreds of views on those issues and […]
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Touch That Wall | Opinion
We live in a hurry up world. It’s a situation that may have gathered steam over 200 years ago with the invention of the railroad train, picking up the pace even more when automobiles showed up among the horse-drawn carriages. In the same century the Pony Express, the telegraph, and […]
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Opinion | Why Virtual Religious Services Aren’t Enough
When our congregation, Church of the Savior, moved to online services some nine months ago, our family tried to keep things normal. We had the children dress in nice Sunday clothes, though we would be watching via screen instead of entering a sanctuary. We arranged the chairs in the living […]
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Opinion | People with hearing loss shouldn’t have to pay Zoom for captions
So why is Zoom, the most popular video-conferencing company, asking people with hearing loss to pay for the equal access that they need? For those of us with hearing loss, captions are our ramps. But Zoom keeps them out of reach, hidden behind a paywall. We should not be forced […]
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Opinion | My wife and daughters got covid-19. Am I next?
Recently, within a week, my younger daughter, then my elder daughter and now my wife have tested positive for the virus. In April, I felt the virus would get me soon, so I wrote a will to my family that partly said: “If the virus attacks me, please stay away […]
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Opinion | You Don’t Have to Fake It Through Thanksgiving
A mental health professional might describe the period immediately after the death of my husband as shock. Anyone else would have described it as The Holidays. Three days after my husband, Aaron, took his last breath in 2014, it was Thanksgiving Day in America. The meaning of the holiday is […]
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Tens of thousands in N.J. to get extended unemployment benefits thanks to 1 woman | Opinion
By Joe Vitale, Craig Coughlin and Yvonne Lopez If there is any doubt that any one of us can improve the lives of tens of thousands of her neighbors, Chrissy Ventre is living proof that one person can make all the difference. Like so many others across our state, Chrissy’s […]
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Stick to the facts, especially when you’re late to the party | Opinion
By Agnes deBethune There is a local group who, prior to having received monetary inducement from a commercial entity with eyes on an irreplaceable parcel of our — the people’s — land, never showed the slightest interest in Liberty State Park. They did not lift a finger, shovel, rake, or […]
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Opinion | The Art of Holding On, Letting Go and Learning to Golf
I didn’t expect to fall in love during a global pandemic. On Dec. 31, 2019, I turned to my husband as we readied to ring in the new year in our hotel room in Cairo and asked him about the months ahead. “Maybe this year will be the year I […]
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Opinion | Prince George’s plan to build schools will help students and the community
For example, all schools must be delivered no later than July 15, 2024, or the developer will be subject to liquidated damages for each day that they are delayed; a design-build reserve account will be in place for the developer to access should there be cost overruns or unforeseen charges. […]
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Another N.J. restaurant refuses to follow Murphy’s rules. Who can blame them? | Opinion
It would be easy to dismiss the latest controversy at Cuban Pete’s in Montclair as just another reckless restaurant owner gone rogue. For months, Dominick Restaino has ignored Gov. Phil Murphy’s dining mandates, first being cited for illegal indoor dining over the summer and now filling his dining room well […]