Author: hankkalet

Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

Are you paying attention, Mr. President

This story sums up the debacle in Iraq and is just another reason why even members of his own party are jumping ship on the president.

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Killing us, body and soul

Bill Moyers tonight offered his thoughts on the divide Congress and its failure to reign in a presidency that sees indefinite war as this nation’s future — “a constitution crisis that could change the nature of our democracy.”

His close is too important not to quote:

We should keep Iraq in primetime every week, the fighting and dying, the suffering, the debate, the politics, the extraordinary cost. It is months until September and this war is killing us now, body and soul.

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Time for a plan B?

This does not bode well for the school district’s efforts to get a new high school built. Perhaps it is time for begin looking for alternative sites, just in case.

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Target is coming …though not soon enough for my wife

Target will be opening in a little more than two weeks — finally. Construction on the store seems to have been taking forever (though the reality is it hasn’t).

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