Daily Archives: March 4, 2011

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Homerule: Use It or Lose It

4 Mar, 2011  in OaklandNJ

The newly launched website, TownStats.org, is providing residents of New Jersey with a new tool for comparing budget items of different towns, side by side, line by line. On the surface, this might appear to be a beauty contest between budget numbers, but in practice it should lead to innovation […]

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The Red Garden

4 Mar, 2011  in Ted Odenwald

Alice Hoffman. The Red Garden. New York: Crown Publishers, 2011 as reviewed by Ted Odenwald Through a collection of interwoven stories about the citizenry of rustic Blackwell, Massachusetts, Alice Hoffman has earned a place of honor on the bookshelf near Saroyan’s The Human Comedy, Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, and Joyce’s Dubliners. […]

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