Category: News and Politics
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A reflection on the lack of diversity among my business clients
Today I notice that my alma mater Villanova University, located in my former neighborhood, just named nine new members to its law school professional staff and included a headshot photo of each. Only one of the nine is an Anglo-Saxon man. That new hire ratio is quite a difference from my own new client ratio.…
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UFOs and government permits: an odd connection
For all our lives, there has been some background discussion of “UFOs”. It turns out that the simple fact is that at any given moment, there are thousands of “unidentified objects” data collection balloons in the sky above us. Some additional unidentified objects up there are apparently not balloons but something that some in our…
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SCOTUS will hear Anthony Novak case
The US Supreme Court agreed to hear an interesting case involving a familiar name “Anthony Novak”. Anthony Novak in Ohio was arrested, prosecuted and found not guilty of breaking local law for making Facebook posts that annoyed police. Now he wants to sue police but federal appeals court ruled that officers are protected by qualified…
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My own personal experience with prosecutorial overreach
The concept of prosecutorial overreach is in the news today after the former U.S. Attorney General stated publicly that the Trump children should not be charged with fraud. This post is not about the billionaire Trumps, but about the working class Novaks and our neighbors. In 2018 I had my own rude introduction to the…
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Boycott list
Uline Wendy’s CVS Taco Bell Estes Lauder Equinox SoulCycle Marvel Home Depot Hobby Lobby Goya MyPillow Martin’s Famous Pastry Shoppe
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Review of Biden administration tax policy progress after one year in office
The Biden administration proposed two major themes in its tax reform agenda. These were widely promoted during the campaign and then heavily promoted by the White House and the U.S. Department of the Treasury over the past year. Now, one year after the administration began work, this blog post reviews the progress made and the…
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Pandemic reopening update
The mess we’ve created in society’s response to this pandemic re-opening hit me hard yesterday. My wife was required to attend a training for managers charged with overseeing their office reopening. Apparently she will be in charge of approving the scheduling plans of her staff that largely want to continue to work from home vs…
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NJELEC clarifications
I called the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission help line for clarification on the following issues related to small local election campaigns: A school board candidate does not need to file an A1 Form. The candidate must sign Form A1 and form D1. The candidate electronic signature can be after the treasurer starts these…
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2021 New Jersey election: what it means for our small rural depressed communities
30 days from today is the New Jersey election. The anti-incumbent feeling is strong, as usual, but not strong enough to really make a difference. I’ve come to conclude over the years, sadly, that almost nothing at state level elections has much impact on our lives locally in rural South Jersey. Many of our local…