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NJ Truthiness Watch — Amtrak Edition

By cassandra_m May 31, 20114 Comments

Sunday's editorial has the NJ wagging their wizened finger at Democrats for not embracing Rep. Mica's idea of carving out the Northeast Corridor for a rail privatization scheme.

More NJ Truthiness Watch — Hypocritical Finger Wagging at the Obama Campaign

By cassandra_m May 22, 20114 Comments

The NJ Editorial writers have decided to wag their confused (and often hypocritical) finger at the Obama re-election campaign for poking fun at the whole "birther" business and raising money from that amusement.

When Conventional Wisdom Rules and Even Leaves the NJ Confused

By cassandra_m December 4, 20101 Comment

If you've been reading the NJ Editorial page over the past week or so (I know, I know), you will find that the Editorials are still filled with the usual…

Harry Themal Endorses Chris Coons

By Unstable Isotope October 11, 201025 Comments

In an unusual column, Harry Themal expresses his contempt for Christine O'Donnell.

The News Journal Admits to Deficient Political Coverage

By cassandra_m October 4, 201015 Comments

Yesterday, John Sweeney took to the pages of the NJ OpEd page to tell us what we already know -- that the media isn't doing an especially good job at getting political candidates to discuss in detail their approach to issues of concern to voters:

Since the News Journal Couldn’t Be Bothered to Cover Chris Coons Launch….

By cassandra_m April 20, 201024 Comments

Did you notice what was missing from the News Journal today? Coverage of Chris Coons' official launch of his Senatorial bid. No wonder they have a hard time getting people to buy this thing. A serious candidate for Senate does the three county tour and the best the NJ can do is show a picture in the dead tree edition.

Insurance Commissioner is Failing Aggrieved Patients

By cassandra_m March 26, 201021 Comments

That title is stolen from the News Journal Opinion page today, whose writers I have to give some credit to today. They highlight an odd bit of business, where Senator John D. Rockefeller, D-W.V has written to Delaware Blue Cross to ask them to provide detailed documentation of why they would deny cardiac testing prescribed by doctors to patients exhibiting symptoms of heart failure.

The Perennial Sloppiness of the News Journal Editorial Page

By cassandra_m March 8, 201018 Comments

Let us count the ways: 1. Sunday's paper had a couple of UD Professors of Economics firing up the noise machine for tax cuts to stimulate the economy. Even though…

Things I Learned From Ron Williams

By Unstable Isotope February 26, 201020 Comments

This week's Ron Williams column in the News Journal was more informative than usual. I learned the following:

Anthony Wedo is rich.

Anthony Wedo is not running for the DE-AL U.S. House seat, did I mention that Wedo is rich?

Richard Korn has black hair, is from New York and has a New York accent.

Ginger Gibson Finds the JFC Still Not Open

By cassandra_m January 13, 20104 Comments

Last year's hard won HB 1 victory was supposed to mean that legislature business was to be done in the light of day -- with ample and good notice to the public of meetings and hearings as well as making sure that minutes or recordings of meetings were made and made public.