November 9, 2022
Dear Senator Ruiz: You are a true champion for education to children across the state – and one of the top policy experts on the […]
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November 7, 2022
As many of you have read over the months, I like to try to create some good trouble in Newark. Sometimes I push the line, […]
September 22, 2022
We have more than one pandemic in Newark. As if COVID’s not enough, we have an escalating disease of car-jacking, car theft, and violence, particularly […]
April 1, 2022
Most recently, in “Murphy Just Put a Ceiling on my Daughter’s Future,” I wrote about the developing educational crisis here in New Jersey. Thanks to […]
February 28, 2022
You all know I wear a lot of hats. Housing developer. Community activist. Political observer. But by far my most important role is that of […]
February 7, 2022
I’m not sure if everyone has been reading their emails or seeing the reports in the news, but if things were not challenging enough, it […]
January 24, 2022
As a housing developer and a community activist, I have a lot of reasons to walk around our city. It is something I really enjoy. […]
January 11, 2022
While it is not a very happy time for many of us right now, I do want to begin with wishing everyone a Happy New […]
September 8, 2021
As many of you may remember, I started this blog for really one reason — like so many other Newark parents during COVID, I could […]
May 19, 2021
Newark is in line to potentially receive hundreds of millions of dollars between President Biden’s already-passed COVID-19 stimulus legislation and his pending infrastructure bill. That […]
April 26, 2021
In my last editorial I shared my prayers for a safe return to school. But we need far more than a prayer. Today, I will […]
March 29, 2021
Before I talk about how happy I am that our kids will be going back to school, I want to start with a quote from […]