As anybody who spends time muckraking can tell you, pursuing stories about political corruption can take you to some passing strange places. Particularly in New Jersey… In July the FBI bagged a passel of Jersey pols on corruption charges. Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini was among the indicted. An intriguing rumor about Beldini surfaced [...]

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I know that my stories about people throwing themselves and their family members under the proverbial bus are likely grating on a few readers. Well folks, its another bus story! Alas the room under the bus seems endless. It is not just the family members, everyone remotely involved seems to have a reservation. I spend [...]

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Both of these stories make my hair curl and give me a huge headache. One tot Caylee Anthony is most certainly dead. Caylee Anthony will never go to her prom, she will never have a career, never have a family. She was murdered. The only viable culprit is her mother Casey Anthony. Of course that [...]

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With all of the political haggling over the payday lending industry and whether or not the payday loan is a legitimate credit option, it is certainly an interesting twist to find that some of the top banks in the nation are entering the fray by offering similar loan products to their checking account holding customers. [...]

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Short stories and poetry are deceptively difficult literary forms. On the surface, they have the allure of simplicity. After all, they don’t require the detailed arcs or subplots of a novel. Short stories also need not deal with meter or rhyme. Yet these things also make them so difficult. They require far more exactitude than [...]

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Corruption is rampant in Washington, DC. The corruption starts with many career Congressional members unscrupulously representing themselves instead of their constituents, progressing to political expedient conduct, and ending with some members violating the law. Under these circumstances, the following analogy seems appropriate.   Once upon a time, in the capital of Never Never land, there [...]

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It is summer again on Sea Haven, NJ and things start innocently enough. Danny Boyle is now a full time police officer and remains partnered with John Ceepak. As Ceepak finds romance, Danny’s babe, Kate has left and moved to California. With Katie gone, Danny is coping as best he can, often finding just something [...]

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I have just received confirmation that Richard Grund will be joining us this afternoon on our radio program about Caylee Anthony and Haleigh Cummings. For those of you not familiar with Richard Grund, he is the father of Jessie Grund who at one point was engaged to Casey Anthony. Richard and Jessie both cared a [...]

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Former Senator George Mitchell is one of our nation’s proven peace negotiators — he was central in the Northern Ireland efforts. But he is facing a very hard sell in his current attempts to bring peace between Jews and Palestinians in Israel/Palestine and may face more in his moves to win mutual recognition for Israel [...]

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