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THE SWAMPS OF JERSEY The Swamps of Jersey, Frank Nagler Mysteries Book One: They buried everything in the Old Iron Bog. But who buried the young woman? And why does the ring she was wearing remind Detective Frank Nagler of his old girlfriend? “You can practically smell the corruptive influences and the dank, putrid odor of the swamp in this book. A gritty crime novel that could be ripped from the headlines.” https://www.amazon.com/Swamps-Jersey-Michael-Stephen-Daigle-ebook/dp/B0DGYFCFML?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5PuY3o2z7o1AOorAzpirYsZ
Category Archives: Commentary
Heal (reposted)
Was messing on the website and saw this post got all coded up into a mess. So I’m reposting, for anyone who cares. T.S. Eliot can not be right, because what would be the point if everything ends in such … Continue reading
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How stuff gets done
This is how stuff gets done. Take a well-run non-profit like the United Way of Northern New Jersey and have them connect with a committee from an economic segment like the region’s commercial real estate professionals and suddenly there is … Continue reading
Creating a permanent underclass
Add the good burghers of Pennsylvania to the list of those who would balance government budgets on the backs of the poor. This month, Pennsylvania, governed by Republican Tom Corbett, a former businessman, plans to make the amount of food … Continue reading
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Measuring the cost of society
Society has costs. In this post-recession Presidential election year, how, or even whether, to pay those costs is at the heart of the debate to come. What will be on display is the vision of the country each political party … Continue reading
Praise for the ‘liberal heart-throb’ people
Two recent events displayed two distinctly different views of the world. The first view was expressed by a group of Morris County residents who came to the county freeholder meeting bringing fear of conspiracies and windowless rooms where anonymous bureaucrats … Continue reading
Some thoughts on health care
A couple thoughts on the health care debate before the U.S. Supreme Court. 1. In the mid-1990s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that garbage was an interstate commodity. Based on a case that originated in New Jersey, the justices ruled … Continue reading
There is always baseball
Looking for clips, I found this one, published in the Daily Record in 2000. Offered here in honor of baseball players everywhere BY MICHAEL DAIGLE Daily Record The playing fields now are parking lots or shopping centers, and the rickety … Continue reading
The Tallahatachie Bridge Solution
Whereas, proposed legislation to address all these sexual relations, procreative or otherwise, that are going on right under our very eyes, or worse, in places we can not see them, that are vexing certain members of venerated state legislatures, whose … Continue reading
Margaret Chase Smith “Declaration of Conscience”
With announcement today that Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe is not going to run for re-election, I thought of this famous speech by the model of all women public office holders, Margaret Chase Smith of Skowhegan, Maine. She delivered on the … Continue reading
Being polite won’t end homelessness
Yeah, I know. Everyone who is not homeless knows exactly why those people who live in the woods do so. They’re drunks. Or junkies. Or both. They’re criminals. Or going to be. They see ‘em, you know, sleeping on the … Continue reading →
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