Trentonian Insider


Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Murder rap

It's not a big secret.
Some music venues in Trenton are reluctant to book rap acts because they fear they will draw a crowd that could get out of hand.
This morning's news about the rap performance followed by a murder could stoke those fears.
It's important to note, however, that this was more of a Karaoke performance gone bad than an incident in which professional musicians were drawing a bad crowd or inciting violence in some way.

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Coming tomorrow: L.A. Parker on Trenton murders

Coming in tomorrow's Trentonian, columnist L.A. Parker writes about Trenton's murder rate and how we lose track of the lives and people behind the numbers.
Here's a sneak preview:
"What we also know now is that people living in South Trenton with agendas — whether they are political or parochial — will kick, yell and march when an officer is taken away from his post but when in this case a young African American woman is removed from this world, they remain silent.
"Desiree E. Napper-Jones deserved a better man than the one she got and her life and death should receive more attention than their current reception.
"Unfortunately, in Trenton, like so many other urban areas, the lives of black gangsters or dark-colored girlfriends are reduced to numerical identification.
"Napper-Jones garnered a murder No. 15 tag while alleged gang member Arnold Poole is No. 16, etc.
"Jose-Duran Almonte, 28, of Reading, Pa., shot and killed during an incident in a Centre Street bar, is No. 17.
"Whether you care or don’t, these people were once real life human beings."

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Blogging up a storm

The Trentonian has launched a number of new blogs over the past few months.
In addition to supplementing what we offer in the print edition and at www.trentonian.com, these blogs give you the opportunity to comment on issues of the day or the topic in question, and also allow you to interact with some of the beat writers we have covering areas such as the Trenton Devils and Rutgers football. They have access on a daily basis to the players and coaches you follow. So if there are questions you want answered or points you want explored, use the "comment" function of our blogs to fire away.
In case you missed them, check out:
Strange But True: All the wacky and weird news you can stand.
Rutgers Football: By Rutgers beat writer Ben Doody.
Trenton Devils: By Devils beat writer Rob Chakler.
Back Talk Blog: Your opportunity to comment as often as you'd like and at length on any item in our popular daily Back Talk feature.
Yankees Fan: Sports staffer Josh Norris provides his thoughts on that baseball team from New York.
Yankees Suck: The other side of the story.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Inevitable dismissal of Rider charges happens

After dismissing charges today against two Rider University officials in the alcohol poisoning hazing death of a fraternity pledge, Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph Bocchini has a lot more explaining to do about why this was pursued in the first place.
The case against the dean of students and head of campus life at the college were certainly provocative, and sparked a hell of a lot of debate about when college officials will step in and do something about these kind of deadly shenanigans on their campuses.
But these were charges that didn't meet the common sense test. Everyone - from laymen to lawyers - had the same reaction when they heard about them. And that was that this was a stunt by a publicity-seeking or crusading prosecutor.
This isn't an episode of "Law and Order." You can't charge a high school principal for stuff that students do at the prom. You might feel like they're not doing their job well, but you haven't walked in their shoes.
And you certainly are abusing your position as the people's representative in the court system by trumping up some kind of criminal charge against them.

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Monday, August 27, 2007

That sparkling new empty building

Doug Palmer is drawing a line in the sand. And the much-heralded $37 million renovation of a downtown high-rise is doing nothing to revitalize Trenton while his pissing match with developers continues.
Palmer claims that the building's developers "want to change the deal" that they made with the city, and he refuses to budge.
The gist of it is that Palmer insists that the developers charge higher rent than they want to. The not-veiled-at-all goal of the mayor is to gentrify downtown.
Not a bad thing in this case, but Trenton's revitalization can't be forced if no one wants to rent at that price.
Downtown Trenton - and who is ultimately responsible for this other than the city's top elected official? - doesn't have a lot going for it right now.
It's a chicken and egg thing. More upscale residential housing will bring money into the area that will feed new retail, restaurants, etc. And having these kinds of businesses open after 6 p.m. and on weekends might attract more higher-income residents.
But the former won't happen overnight without some of the latter.
You've got to start somewhere, and that's why Palmer should compromise on the Broad Street Bank.
Not to mention that a great new building that could be the start of something in the downtown is sitting empty while he squabbles.

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

But where is the missing mom?

Rosario DiGirolamo's formal indictment on child abandonment charges in Delaware brings us back to the same question we've -- and we hope, police -- have been asking from the beginning.
What does he know about the whereabouts of Amy Giordano, the 27-year-old Hightstown woman who bore the child he abandoned in a hospital parking lot?
She's still missing, and despite DiGirolamo's statement through a lawyer a few weeks ago that he's helping find her, something stinks.
If he has come clean with everything he knows, why haven't more details about Giordano's possible whereabouts made it out to the public?
The Trentonian ran a photo on its front page earlier this summer of surveillance camera footage showing DiGirolamo shopping with Giordano and their baby in a grocery store only hours before her disappearance.
Did she tell him he was taking off? What happened?

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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Every voter crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed mayor

Well, he can't solve the gang problem, put much of a dent in urban decay or keep the school district from teetering in the brink of a state takeover, but he sure does look fine!

That's right. Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer has made Esquire magazine's list of the nation's best-dressed mayors.

He's pictured above wearing a "two-button wool suit ($1,995) by Dolce & Gabbana; cotton shirt ($490) by Domenico Vacca; and silk tie ($125) by Dunhill."

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

A typical liberal tax-and-spend non-solution

Maybe you just can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Trenton's school department is so screwed up, so much on the brink of failure, that the state has come out and said it is on the verge of seizing control from city officials, just like it did in Camden.

Parents and the public have lost confidence in the integrity of school administrators in the wake of the Sherman Avenue school report card tampering scandal.

And what is Mayor Doug Palmer's solution?

Extend the school year and the school day.

And of course, you'd have to spend big bucks on more staff, and of course, you'd have to pay the teachers' union through the nose for cutting into their lengthy summer vacation by a few days.

Another tired, unoriginal, tax-and-spend solution that was predictable from a leader of establishment liberal Democrats who know no other solution than to throw money and more government bureaucracy at every problem.

How could keeping students longer in schools that are failing them every day possibly be the anwer to Trenton's problems?

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Gangs: The Wal-Mart solution

Since we poked fun of Ewing Mayor Jack Ball's comment that building a new Wal-Mart could solve the area's gang problem, he's been mercilessly skewered by Trentonian Back Talk callers.

Today, Back Talk printed his response.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Will it take Newark-style crime to wake up Trenton?

Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer's comments about the horrific execution-style killings of three students in Newark are important as the city grapples with its own problems.

The Newark case (click here for latest update) hits home in these parts because, as unimaginably horrible a crime as it is, it's not much of a leap at all to think that it could have happened right here in Trenton. The pages of The Trentonian are filled daily with godless violence that gives the impression the city borders on chaos some nights.

What will it take to get some real action to bring our personal mayhem under control? A spectacularly high-profile crime like the Newark case?

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Thursday, August 9, 2007

New Eagles blog launched

Trentonian.com has another blog to offer you.

You've come to rely on Journal Register News Service beat writer Bob Grotz coverage of the Eagles.

Now you can read more of his thoughts with "Blogging with the Birds."

And remember that you can comment anytime on Back Talk items that get you going. Check out our Back Talk Blog today if you don't have it bookmarked already.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Coming tomorrow: L.A. Parker on Newark killings

Coming in tomorrow's Trentonian, columnist L.A. Parker tackles the media swarm around the execution-style killings of three students in Newark.

"Every report refers to the three dead students and wounded survivor, Natasha Aeriel, 19, as 'good' kids," Parker writes. "The inference in the description is that if they were 'bad' children then somehow we could all handle the the quadruple shooting and triple killing. If they were 'bad' kids we could all head back to the beach, TV, or bar with exclamation that all is right in our world. It’s not."

Parker argues that anger at Newark Mayor Cory Booker is misplaced.

"Mayor Booker can only say so much, attempt so much and do so much to effect change in Newark," he writes. "The realization is that black people must accept responsibility for our share of a daily deadly destruction. At some point, we must stand and say — enough."

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Help us write the headline for Bonds' 756th

Here's your opportunity to write a Trentonian front-page headline.

With Barry Bonds tied with Hank Aaron at 755 career home runs, the record being broken by the sultan of steroids is inevitable and could happen any day now.

It's an historic front page in the making.

What do you think our headline should be?

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Our new attorney general is a hottie


New Jersey's new attorney general, Anne Milgram, has been all over the news since taking office a short time ago.

Sounds great.
What's not surprising about this article profiling her latest cause, however, is her revelation that she's been asked out by complete strangers numerous times since her face started appearing before the cameras every day.

We've believed since her appointment by Gov. Jon S. Corzine that New Jersey now, easily, has the hottest attorney general in the country.

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Sunday, August 5, 2007

Wal-Mart and gangs ... huh?

The 2007 award for most obscure parallel between two completely unrelated political issues goes to ... Ewing Mayor Jack Ball.

In commenting for today's Trentonian story about the proposed Wal-Mart in Lawrence, the mayor listed one possible benefit of Wal-Mart's arrival as, get this, fighting gangs.

What's Wal-Mart's connection to gangs, other than providing another outlet for the purchase of cheap firearms?

Mayor Ball sees Wal-Mart bringing more jobs to the community, and if there are more jobs available, maybe young people will be less likely to join gangs.

Hey, it makes sense. What prospective gang-banging, bling-flashing drug dealer wouldn't exchange that lifestyle for a $7 an hour job greeting Wal-Mart customers?

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Friday, August 3, 2007

'The deal of the century'

Prosecutors should be ashamed and the public should be outraged that Trenton teacher Sylvester Jones was offered a special form of probation yesterday for having a sexual relationship with one of his teenage students.

As prosecutors described it as the "deal of the century," they should have taken pause at their own words.

Why is Jones "getting off" with a slap on the wrist?

Let's dispel some misconceptions about this case and cases like it.

The girl was 17, practically an adult, right? Well, the girl was 16 when prosecutors allege that Jones started an inappropriate relationship with her. The law is the law, first of all, and statutary rape laws are on the books because CHILDREN CAN'T "CONSENT" to sex. They are too young to make that decision, especially when it involves an adult who should know better.

But more importantly, she was HIS STUDENT. He was in a position of authority over her, and to take advantage of that relationship is immoral and illegal and NEVER OK.

The fact that special probation - designed for first-time offenders who make an error in judgment unlikely to ever happen again and that hasn't had too much victim impact - was applied in this case is mind-boggling considering the factors above and that Jones was charged in this case and then allegedly caught having sexual contact with the girl in a public park while on probation!

Does that sound like someone who made a one-time error in judgment?

Does that sound like the kind of judgment we want to tell our children, parents and the public that it's OK to exhibit as a teacher in the public school system? That's what we're saying by not meting out a proper punishment in this case.

And a proper punishment would be Sylvester Jones behind bars.

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Thursday, August 2, 2007

Bridge tragedy: Could it happen here?

How frightening was the news last night of the rush-hour bridge collapse in Minnesota?

Four are confirmed dead, but as many as 30 others are missing, some believed to be dead in cars submerged in the river below the bridge's ruins.

For people of this area, it immediately brings to mind the sorry condition of the bridges over the Delaware River between Mercer and Bucks counties, the huge amount of traffic that they get every day, and the fact that most are due to undergo major construction projects.

It's unclear at this point if the construction project underway on this bridge in Minnesota sparked or contributed to the bridge's collapse, but it's a scary thing to think about when you drive over the Route 1 toll bridge every day in Trenton.

This morning, Gov. Corzine ordered emergency inspections of New Jersey bridges to make sure a Minnesota tragedy isn't repeated here. We hope that the state's top engineers look at the under-construction angle closely as well.

Thoughts or information on this story today? Contact Charlie Webster, who's working on this story for tomorrow's paper, at (609) 989-7800 or cwebster4@trentonian.com.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

National retail in downtown Trenton

The good news?

Foot Locker will dedicate a new store at 31 East State St. in Trenton with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 2 p.m. Aug. 2.
The sad news?

It is being touted by the Trenton Downtown Association as "only the second national retailer in downtown Trenton."

How pitiful is it for there to be only two national retailers in the downtown of a state capital. If we were the Trenton Downtown Association, it's not something we'd want to be touting.

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Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Murder rap

It's not a big secret.
Some music venues in Trenton are reluctant to book rap acts because they fear they will draw a crowd that could get out of hand.
This morning's news about the rap performance followed by a murder could stoke those fears.
It's important to note, however, that this was more of a Karaoke performance gone bad than an incident in which professional musicians were drawing a bad crowd or inciting violence in some way.

Labels:

Coming tomorrow: L.A. Parker on Trenton murders

Coming in tomorrow's Trentonian, columnist L.A. Parker writes about Trenton's murder rate and how we lose track of the lives and people behind the numbers.
Here's a sneak preview:
"What we also know now is that people living in South Trenton with agendas — whether they are political or parochial — will kick, yell and march when an officer is taken away from his post but when in this case a young African American woman is removed from this world, they remain silent.
"Desiree E. Napper-Jones deserved a better man than the one she got and her life and death should receive more attention than their current reception.
"Unfortunately, in Trenton, like so many other urban areas, the lives of black gangsters or dark-colored girlfriends are reduced to numerical identification.
"Napper-Jones garnered a murder No. 15 tag while alleged gang member Arnold Poole is No. 16, etc.
"Jose-Duran Almonte, 28, of Reading, Pa., shot and killed during an incident in a Centre Street bar, is No. 17.
"Whether you care or don’t, these people were once real life human beings."

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Blogging up a storm

The Trentonian has launched a number of new blogs over the past few months.
In addition to supplementing what we offer in the print edition and at www.trentonian.com, these blogs give you the opportunity to comment on issues of the day or the topic in question, and also allow you to interact with some of the beat writers we have covering areas such as the Trenton Devils and Rutgers football. They have access on a daily basis to the players and coaches you follow. So if there are questions you want answered or points you want explored, use the "comment" function of our blogs to fire away.
In case you missed them, check out:
Strange But True: All the wacky and weird news you can stand.
Rutgers Football: By Rutgers beat writer Ben Doody.
Trenton Devils: By Devils beat writer Rob Chakler.
Back Talk Blog: Your opportunity to comment as often as you'd like and at length on any item in our popular daily Back Talk feature.
Yankees Fan: Sports staffer Josh Norris provides his thoughts on that baseball team from New York.
Yankees Suck: The other side of the story.

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Inevitable dismissal of Rider charges happens

After dismissing charges today against two Rider University officials in the alcohol poisoning hazing death of a fraternity pledge, Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph Bocchini has a lot more explaining to do about why this was pursued in the first place.
The case against the dean of students and head of campus life at the college were certainly provocative, and sparked a hell of a lot of debate about when college officials will step in and do something about these kind of deadly shenanigans on their campuses.
But these were charges that didn't meet the common sense test. Everyone - from laymen to lawyers - had the same reaction when they heard about them. And that was that this was a stunt by a publicity-seeking or crusading prosecutor.
This isn't an episode of "Law and Order." You can't charge a high school principal for stuff that students do at the prom. You might feel like they're not doing their job well, but you haven't walked in their shoes.
And you certainly are abusing your position as the people's representative in the court system by trumping up some kind of criminal charge against them.

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Monday, August 27, 2007

That sparkling new empty building

Doug Palmer is drawing a line in the sand. And the much-heralded $37 million renovation of a downtown high-rise is doing nothing to revitalize Trenton while his pissing match with developers continues.
Palmer claims that the building's developers "want to change the deal" that they made with the city, and he refuses to budge.
The gist of it is that Palmer insists that the developers charge higher rent than they want to. The not-veiled-at-all goal of the mayor is to gentrify downtown.
Not a bad thing in this case, but Trenton's revitalization can't be forced if no one wants to rent at that price.
Downtown Trenton - and who is ultimately responsible for this other than the city's top elected official? - doesn't have a lot going for it right now.
It's a chicken and egg thing. More upscale residential housing will bring money into the area that will feed new retail, restaurants, etc. And having these kinds of businesses open after 6 p.m. and on weekends might attract more higher-income residents.
But the former won't happen overnight without some of the latter.
You've got to start somewhere, and that's why Palmer should compromise on the Broad Street Bank.
Not to mention that a great new building that could be the start of something in the downtown is sitting empty while he squabbles.

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

But where is the missing mom?

Rosario DiGirolamo's formal indictment on child abandonment charges in Delaware brings us back to the same question we've -- and we hope, police -- have been asking from the beginning.
What does he know about the whereabouts of Amy Giordano, the 27-year-old Hightstown woman who bore the child he abandoned in a hospital parking lot?
She's still missing, and despite DiGirolamo's statement through a lawyer a few weeks ago that he's helping find her, something stinks.
If he has come clean with everything he knows, why haven't more details about Giordano's possible whereabouts made it out to the public?
The Trentonian ran a photo on its front page earlier this summer of surveillance camera footage showing DiGirolamo shopping with Giordano and their baby in a grocery store only hours before her disappearance.
Did she tell him he was taking off? What happened?

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Saturday, August 18, 2007

Every voter crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed mayor

Well, he can't solve the gang problem, put much of a dent in urban decay or keep the school district from teetering in the brink of a state takeover, but he sure does look fine!

That's right. Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer has made Esquire magazine's list of the nation's best-dressed mayors.

He's pictured above wearing a "two-button wool suit ($1,995) by Dolce & Gabbana; cotton shirt ($490) by Domenico Vacca; and silk tie ($125) by Dunhill."

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Tuesday, August 14, 2007

A typical liberal tax-and-spend non-solution

Maybe you just can't teach an old dog new tricks.

Trenton's school department is so screwed up, so much on the brink of failure, that the state has come out and said it is on the verge of seizing control from city officials, just like it did in Camden.

Parents and the public have lost confidence in the integrity of school administrators in the wake of the Sherman Avenue school report card tampering scandal.

And what is Mayor Doug Palmer's solution?

Extend the school year and the school day.

And of course, you'd have to spend big bucks on more staff, and of course, you'd have to pay the teachers' union through the nose for cutting into their lengthy summer vacation by a few days.

Another tired, unoriginal, tax-and-spend solution that was predictable from a leader of establishment liberal Democrats who know no other solution than to throw money and more government bureaucracy at every problem.

How could keeping students longer in schools that are failing them every day possibly be the anwer to Trenton's problems?

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Gangs: The Wal-Mart solution

Since we poked fun of Ewing Mayor Jack Ball's comment that building a new Wal-Mart could solve the area's gang problem, he's been mercilessly skewered by Trentonian Back Talk callers.

Today, Back Talk printed his response.

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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Will it take Newark-style crime to wake up Trenton?

Trenton Mayor Doug Palmer's comments about the horrific execution-style killings of three students in Newark are important as the city grapples with its own problems.

The Newark case (click here for latest update) hits home in these parts because, as unimaginably horrible a crime as it is, it's not much of a leap at all to think that it could have happened right here in Trenton. The pages of The Trentonian are filled daily with godless violence that gives the impression the city borders on chaos some nights.

What will it take to get some real action to bring our personal mayhem under control? A spectacularly high-profile crime like the Newark case?

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Thursday, August 9, 2007

New Eagles blog launched

Trentonian.com has another blog to offer you.

You've come to rely on Journal Register News Service beat writer Bob Grotz coverage of the Eagles.

Now you can read more of his thoughts with "Blogging with the Birds."

And remember that you can comment anytime on Back Talk items that get you going. Check out our Back Talk Blog today if you don't have it bookmarked already.

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Coming tomorrow: L.A. Parker on Newark killings

Coming in tomorrow's Trentonian, columnist L.A. Parker tackles the media swarm around the execution-style killings of three students in Newark.

"Every report refers to the three dead students and wounded survivor, Natasha Aeriel, 19, as 'good' kids," Parker writes. "The inference in the description is that if they were 'bad' children then somehow we could all handle the the quadruple shooting and triple killing. If they were 'bad' kids we could all head back to the beach, TV, or bar with exclamation that all is right in our world. It’s not."

Parker argues that anger at Newark Mayor Cory Booker is misplaced.

"Mayor Booker can only say so much, attempt so much and do so much to effect change in Newark," he writes. "The realization is that black people must accept responsibility for our share of a daily deadly destruction. At some point, we must stand and say — enough."

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Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Help us write the headline for Bonds' 756th

Here's your opportunity to write a Trentonian front-page headline.

With Barry Bonds tied with Hank Aaron at 755 career home runs, the record being broken by the sultan of steroids is inevitable and could happen any day now.

It's an historic front page in the making.

What do you think our headline should be?

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Monday, August 6, 2007

Our new attorney general is a hottie


New Jersey's new attorney general, Anne Milgram, has been all over the news since taking office a short time ago.

Sounds great.
What's not surprising about this article profiling her latest cause, however, is her revelation that she's been asked out by complete strangers numerous times since her face started appearing before the cameras every day.

We've believed since her appointment by Gov. Jon S. Corzine that New Jersey now, easily, has the hottest attorney general in the country.

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Sunday, August 5, 2007

Wal-Mart and gangs ... huh?

The 2007 award for most obscure parallel between two completely unrelated political issues goes to ... Ewing Mayor Jack Ball.

In commenting for today's Trentonian story about the proposed Wal-Mart in Lawrence, the mayor listed one possible benefit of Wal-Mart's arrival as, get this, fighting gangs.

What's Wal-Mart's connection to gangs, other than providing another outlet for the purchase of cheap firearms?

Mayor Ball sees Wal-Mart bringing more jobs to the community, and if there are more jobs available, maybe young people will be less likely to join gangs.

Hey, it makes sense. What prospective gang-banging, bling-flashing drug dealer wouldn't exchange that lifestyle for a $7 an hour job greeting Wal-Mart customers?

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Friday, August 3, 2007

'The deal of the century'

Prosecutors should be ashamed and the public should be outraged that Trenton teacher Sylvester Jones was offered a special form of probation yesterday for having a sexual relationship with one of his teenage students.

As prosecutors described it as the "deal of the century," they should have taken pause at their own words.

Why is Jones "getting off" with a slap on the wrist?

Let's dispel some misconceptions about this case and cases like it.

The girl was 17, practically an adult, right? Well, the girl was 16 when prosecutors allege that Jones started an inappropriate relationship with her. The law is the law, first of all, and statutary rape laws are on the books because CHILDREN CAN'T "CONSENT" to sex. They are too young to make that decision, especially when it involves an adult who should know better.

But more importantly, she was HIS STUDENT. He was in a position of authority over her, and to take advantage of that relationship is immoral and illegal and NEVER OK.

The fact that special probation - designed for first-time offenders who make an error in judgment unlikely to ever happen again and that hasn't had too much victim impact - was applied in this case is mind-boggling considering the factors above and that Jones was charged in this case and then allegedly caught having sexual contact with the girl in a public park while on probation!

Does that sound like someone who made a one-time error in judgment?

Does that sound like the kind of judgment we want to tell our children, parents and the public that it's OK to exhibit as a teacher in the public school system? That's what we're saying by not meting out a proper punishment in this case.

And a proper punishment would be Sylvester Jones behind bars.

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Thursday, August 2, 2007

Bridge tragedy: Could it happen here?

How frightening was the news last night of the rush-hour bridge collapse in Minnesota?

Four are confirmed dead, but as many as 30 others are missing, some believed to be dead in cars submerged in the river below the bridge's ruins.

For people of this area, it immediately brings to mind the sorry condition of the bridges over the Delaware River between Mercer and Bucks counties, the huge amount of traffic that they get every day, and the fact that most are due to undergo major construction projects.

It's unclear at this point if the construction project underway on this bridge in Minnesota sparked or contributed to the bridge's collapse, but it's a scary thing to think about when you drive over the Route 1 toll bridge every day in Trenton.

This morning, Gov. Corzine ordered emergency inspections of New Jersey bridges to make sure a Minnesota tragedy isn't repeated here. We hope that the state's top engineers look at the under-construction angle closely as well.

Thoughts or information on this story today? Contact Charlie Webster, who's working on this story for tomorrow's paper, at (609) 989-7800 or cwebster4@trentonian.com.

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

National retail in downtown Trenton

The good news?

Foot Locker will dedicate a new store at 31 East State St. in Trenton with a ribbon cutting ceremony at 2 p.m. Aug. 2.
The sad news?

It is being touted by the Trenton Downtown Association as "only the second national retailer in downtown Trenton."

How pitiful is it for there to be only two national retailers in the downtown of a state capital. If we were the Trenton Downtown Association, it's not something we'd want to be touting.

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