Highland Park Mirror

JULY 3, 2008

H.P. council challenged to stand against war

The Central Jersey Coalition Against Endless War and the Rutgers Walkout Coalition plan to bring a resolution against the Iraq War, similar to the to one passed recently by New Brunswick, to the Highland Park Borough Council meeting on Tuesday, July 15 at 7 PM. . . .

From Our June 19th Issue

LETTERS

2003 Master Plan showing its age
”Open and timely” update needed: Residents

The time has come again for our Master Plan Reexamination. The 2002 Master Plan Reexamination and the following 2003 Highland Park Master Plan presented a vision for borough development based on conditions at that time . . . .

From Our May 25th Issue

MY TURN / STEVE BARNES

A New Climate for Water

Whether you think global warming is a myth or not -- whether fossil fuels do or don’t have an effect on temperature here and worldwide -- our climate is changing, and this is having a major impact on the water resources....

LETTERS

Mirror overlooks partisan gamesmanship

Allowing Councilwoman Elsie Foster-Dublin to speak publicly at the Highland Park Conservative Temple and Center-Congregation Anshe Emeth groundbreaking on May 4 constituted an inappropriate politicizing of...

Cartoons strain bounds of probity

Let me start out by saying how much I appreciate this publication. Since moving to Highland Park in 2000, I often wondered what was happening...

Biomed engineer rebuts column’s claims

I have to disagree with a few comments made in the DIY Health column [April 23rd]. For one, sea salt and table salt are almost exactly the same chemically...

From Our May 16th Issue

LETTERS

Mirror feature dubious at best

In the April 23rd edition of The Mirror, an article appeared in the column DIY Health titled “Weight Loss”. The author made unscientific claims and has perpetuated myths about food safety and the process of human digestion...

From Our March 18th Issue

REFLECTIONS / REV. JANICE L. SUTTON

Shadows of winter fade with return of the light

Last week our church held our annual Prayer Breakfast. We enjoyed breaking-eggs together and reflecting on the Lenten season, our spiritual discipline, our stewardship of the created order, and our giving to those less fortunate. With the help of Rev. Lisanne Finston from Elijah's Promise, we committed to being in a posture and attitude of prayer about ways that we can address root causes of injustice, finding ways we can faithfully live committed to seeking solutions to eradicate poverty, hunger and homelessness. We will therefore be doing the work of discipleship....

LETTERS

Mirror feature strains credulity

From Our February 12th Issue

A Homer's Odyssey
Looks like Thomas Wolfe was right

The winter has always been a time for homecomings. Students come home from college, flushed with stories of independence and discovery; the children who have grown up and moved to that place we know as 'AWAY' come back to hang ornaments on the tree, and light candles in the window. Over the past few years I have done my share of wandering about the country, going to school in Boston and various periods of employment that have taken me from Des Moines, to Albany and down to West Palm Beach, plus other shorter trips in between...

From Our January 20th Issue

LETTERS

Hoodwinked

Watching the watchers

Mirror feature is offensive

From Our December 18th Issue

MY TURN / SEBOUH GEMDJIAN

Requiem for Space 234

THE MAN won, but who was fighting? Pilgrims to Highland Park, the land of the free-range radical, looking forward to a pit stop to charge their activist and anarchist expression needs, will be disappointed to see that Space 234 has turned the lights off and locked the doors. An amazing self-sustaining institution that supported itself for six months on retailing donation priced pop art and propaganda has crash-landed into the hard bottom line...

From Our December 6th Issue

REFLECTIONS / REV. JANICE L. SUTTON

Season of stillness brings time to unplug and reflect

In my sermon on Sunday morning I challenged the notion of a God who is all-controlling, even all-powerful. I suggested that God could not have had any idea what humans were capable of, or any idea that the faithful would miss the ever-so-sacred stories, commanding that we beat swords into plowshares, and make war NO MORE. Instead, pious people would isolate texts that seem to insist that nations should rise against each other, or that we were made free to develop precision targeting methods and cluster bombs...

From Our November 24th Issue

LETTERS

Downtown must provide the essentials

Rumors have been flying about the property for lease currently occupied by Stop n Shop and the likelihood that the space will be leased by a completely redundant pharmacy across the street from our well established Rite Aid. Many residents like myself wonder what the Mayor and the town, what anyone, is doing to ameliorate what we see as a crisis - the loss of our only grocery store...

From Our November 13th Issue

LETTERS

Safe sidewalks

Sidewalks have been provided for good reason. Why not use them...

From Our November 3rd Issue

EDITORIAL / ANNE BARRON

How green can Highland Park go?

How green?

This is the challenge confronting Green Highland Park, an effort by the Borough to encourage sustainable living among residents, businesses and civic groups. The "greening" of Highland Park has a monetary focus as well, through a number of cost-saving green measures that should reduce municipal costs in the long run...

From Our October 6th Issue

EDITORIAL / ANNE BARRON

Will Highland Park Council do the right thing?

Much of local environmentalism takes place at local zoning and planning board meetings. While local and state statutes are heavily loaded to favor the developer, concerned citizens have the opportunity to review plans, land use law and local ordinances to promote their cause.

Many residents, including members of SaveOpenSpace (SOS), have logged long hours at Planning and Zoning Board meetings taking notes, researching land use law, querying developers' applications, and pushing the Boards to consider other needs in addition to the basic zoning, traffic, construction, and finance considerations...

From Our September 26th Issue

LETTERS

Let's take a comprehensive view on development

The YM-YWHA property is under contract for sale, with the developer purchaser's price subject to the results of the effort to re-zone for high rise, high density housing...

From Our September 14th Issue

MY TURN / WILLIAM KRAMER

Farm & labor leaders find solidarity in New Jersey

As communities around the world - from the Bronx to Bogota - struggle to feed themselves, farmers are also facing desperate times. Both of these crises are due in part to US agricultural trade policies. Some farmers have been driven to suicide, and others have migrated to cities or other countries in search of work.

But now, farmers and consumers alike are responding by building national and international movements to fight for food sovereignty: the right of all peoples to define their own food and agricultural policies. In essence, food sovereignty means good food for all and fairness for those who produce it.

During September the Farmer Solidarity Project , along with World Hunger Year and many other groups in the northeast, have organized a "Campesino Leaders in Residence" tour featuring prominent farmer leaders from Latin America...

From Our July 14th Issue

MY TURN / JEFFREY AARON

Highland Park Deserves Wise Growth

The re-zoning of the YMHA lot concerns everyone. The outcome could affect traffic, the environment, schools, and taxes. The issue will return, since the new owner profits from building as many units as possible.

The positions of Highland Park Citizens for Responsible Riverfront Development (HPCRRD) are as follows...

From Our June 20th Issue