Support Jersey growers
      There's more than just vegetables for sale at New Jersey's farm stands this growing season. Buying locally grown products will help New Jerseyans reduce their carbon footprints, improve their health, and help state farmers keep their land out of the hands of developers.
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Your Turn
Take advantage of New Jersey State Library's summer reading program
Norma E. Blake Guest Column
      With the summer recess from school just a few weeks away, many parents are thinking of ways to keep their children's minds and bodies active after those first weeks of euphoric freedom erode to boredom. Let me suggest that before you become frazzled, your local library may offer a solution.
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Dealers were a testament to conspicuous consumption
GREG BEAN Coda
      Back in the days when I was a court reporter, I covered the trial of a Colombian drug importer who had made a fortune bringing South American cocaine to this country and selling it to more-than-willing clients. The feds busted him, not after a long undercover investigation, but after an angry ex-...
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Where's a good ray-zapper when you really need one?
DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN Red State/Blue State
      A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson - a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist - and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. Dear Greg: Honestly, Old Pal, I could eat this stuff up with a spoon, then lick the b...
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Quack, quack, I want my darned seat back!
LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet?
      I'm beginning to wonder if I'm spending too much time with my children. I first became suspicious of this fact one evening as I attended a birthday party. The night was young, the moon was high, and laughter filled the air. Since seating was tight, I arose from my chair and said to those around me...
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