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...
Opinion: Mercer County Community College offers safe ways to make education decisions
COVID-19 has dramatically and quickly altered the way we live, work, communicate, socialize and enjoy ourselves. It certainly changes the way higher education delivers...
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...
Opinion: Be aware of important New Jersey Primary Election changes
The League of Women Voters of the Princeton Area reminds the public of changes to the upcoming July 7 Primary Election. As a result...
State Health Insurance Assistance Programs help seniors navigate the Medicare maze
Every day, 10,000 people across the United States celebrate their 65th birthday and become eligible for enrollment in Medicare. Even without the additional challenge...
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...
Opinion: A season of loss, from COVID-19 to the ‘virus’ of racism
This has been a season of expectations and loss.
Only because I am an optimist and I have very good friends who give me cause...
NJSIAA begins to plan for students’ return to high school sports in New Jersey
By Mary Liz Ivins
In my decades as an educator and school administrator, I’m hard pressed to find a situation as challenging as what we...
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