LOOSE ENDS 7/31: Shin-Yi Lin, Eagleton Institute Fellow
By Pam Hersh
A few weeks ago, I had the honor of Zooming into a Rutgers University graduation that featured only four graduates, all accomplished...
LOOSE ENDS 7/24: John Weingart: Plagues and Pandemics: A Musical Tradition
By Pam Hersh
My longtime friend John Weingart, associate director at the Rutgers University Eagleton Institute of Politics, has a knack for delving into topics...
Comet Neowise illustrates the importance of dark skies
Since the earliest days of human civilization, the night sky has been a source of fascination and mystery. Ancient star-gazers saw human and animal...
SOLUTIONS 7/17: Our Changing World
By Huck Fairman
A tropical storm came ashore near Atlantic City and blew up along much of the Mid-Atlantic coast, flooding roads and fields. High...
LOOSE ENDS 7/17: Nick Sutter
By Pam Hersh
My angst antennae are particularly sensitive these days, so when I heard the news, I made my Edvard Munch “Scream” face, and...
LOOSE ENDS 7/10: Dr. Sean Naini
By Pam Hersh
COVID-19 has upended our reality in so many different ways including bringing us a brand new reality television show: Telehealth-2020. Gone are...
SOLUTIONS 7/3: The Coming Costs
By Huck Fairman
Along with the spreading of the coronavirus, this country is facing a range of destructive changes from the climate crisis. And, not...
What #Black Lives Matter and COVID have taught me about being a teenager in...
A few days ago I watched my friends graduate from high school, on my computer screen. The speeches were pre-recorded, the montage of the...
SOLUTIONS 6/26: Plastics everywhere in the warming air
By Huck Fairman
A new report published in the journal, SCIENCE, warned that microplastics are everywhere, not only in the planet’s waterbodies but in the...
LOOSE ENDS 6/26: Raising awareness for lung cancer
By Pam Hersh
Two weeks ago, I received an email from my friend Isabella de la Houssaye asking me to join her friends and family...
SOLUTIONS 6/19: Environmental Unraveling
By Huck Fairman
While many Americans are observing social distancing, working from home and not traveling, with the result that a majority of, if not...
LOOSE ENDS 6/19: Joe Greene and his company
By Pam Hersh
I am no Pollyanna, but I discovered several glass-is-half-full aspects of this COVID-19 pandemic. The very clean glass becomes even fuller when...
Urban farms taking off
By Michele S. Byers
When you think of farming in New Jersey, what comes to mind? Maybe huge rolling fields planted in rows of crops,...
SOLUTIONS 6/12: Fighting Trump’s Fuel-Efficiency Rollbacks
By Huck Fairman
Having watched President Donald Trump’s denials, delays, lies and wild forays into questionable medicine, as well as his appointing law-breaking, self-serving, incompetent...
Opinion: We must protect cancer patients during COVID-19 pandemic
I’m a volunteer for the American Cancer Society, writing on behalf of cancer survivors and their caregivers. I write out of concern for this...
LOOSE ENDS 6/5: Women who embody the YWCA mission honored
By Pam Hersh
On Friday, May 22, McCarter Theatre ’s retiring Artistic Director Emily Mann, also renowned as a playwright, asked me – and dozens...
A message from the County Prosecutors Association of New Jersey
The images of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis are deeply disturbing. Mr. Floyd’s death is being investigated not only by the Hennepin County Attorney’s...
LOOSE ENDS 5/29: Princeton artist Ryan Stark Lilienthal
By Pam Hersh
In the current phase of social isolation life, I became particularly nostalgic for social mingling, when I walked past Small World (the...
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