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Health: Happiness vs Meaning

There’s good news for all the volunteers who help keep the FLOW towns running, and give each town their own unique character. Good news for all the volunteers who serve on municipal and school boards in Wyckoff; good news for those volunteering for commissions or committees in Franklin Lakes; and […]


The Hocus Pocus of Alan Marcus

Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan was the subject of a recent Bergen Record article that details her relationship with Alan C. Marcus, and what influence Marcus played in the awarding of Bergen County contracts. Many – mostly allies of Alan Marcus – attributed the Donovan win in 2010 to the […]


Is Oakland in The Hunger Games?

New video trailer at bottom of post. “Ending up on the cutting room floor”, is a phrase that came about before the days of computers when film editors would physically cut the film strip while editing it. That scene would then be tossed on the floor, and never make it […]


Facebook Secret, Your Friends Are Ignoring You

A Standford University study, conducted with the cooperation of Facebook, was written up in a BuzzFeed.com article entitled The Number Facebook Doesn’t Want You to See. That article inspired a response from Lars Backstrom who works at Facebook and wanted to address the implication that Facebook is hiding numbers from […]


Found Money in Oakland-UPDATED 11

On July 10th, The Oakland Journal was contacted by a person representing himself as a member of the Oakland Police Department’s detective division; and, as the call originated with an ID indicating it was a Borough of Oakland phone number, The Journal assumed the authenticity of the caller.