Circuit City closed several months ago, and the Lawrenceville store still has its Lease sign out front. Prospects for filling it, given the economy, seem slim, especially with so many other major retail buildings on Route 1 empty, as well.
Annie talked tonight with friends in South Carolina who are still looking for work almost six months after relocating.
The few manufacturing plants in New Jersey are on the endangered species list, car dealerships are closing, restaurants are cutting back hours, and so on and so on.
I keep hearing about these green shoots, but all I see is pain, pain and more pain. More stimulus is going to be needed — along with systemic reform — before anything grows in this fallow economic soil.
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Hank Kalet 