Columns, editorials now online

The Trentonian's editorials and work by columnists Jeff Edelstein and L.A. Parker, starting today, will be available at www.trentonian.com.
Click the links below for some of the most recent stuff:
EDITORIAL: Street cameras make us safer
EDITORIAL: Top 10 reasons to feel good about the Phillies
L.A. PARKER: Princeton, Hampton, Einstein, Robeson
L.A. PARKER: Fire radiates pride for city heroes
L.A. PARKER: In China via Winslow, parents and dreamwork
JEFF EDELSTEIN: Referendum time is upon us
JEFF EDELSTEIN: Mother Nature’s late season treat
JEFF EDELSTEIN: Banned cupcakes? You gotta be kidding
JEFF EDELSTEIN: Four words: sausage, cannolis, dancing and beer
JEFF EDELSTEIN: Medical ‘advice’ from Dr. Jeff

Gilmore race-baiting?

You don't have to feel the air getting colder or see the lawn signs cropping up to know that an election is nearing.
Just listen to the tone of rhetoric coming from Hamilton Mayor Glen Gilmore.
His recent pledge to open a can of whup-ass on anyone who happens to look shady in Hamilton public spaces is a thinly veiled attempt to make himself look tough on crime ahead of November's voting.
While the idea of putting cameras in a crime-ridden area is sound, Gilmore's comments smacked of race-baiting.
By "outsiders," he meant people from Trenton, and by people from Trenton, he meant black people.
It's silly and small-minded for many reasons, but also because Hamilton is a pretty diverse community itself, with its own problems, created by its own residents.
The other thing that was kind of ridiculous about his comments was that he wants to prevent loitering at a public park.
What are you supposed to do at a park besides loiter? Work?
Isn't loitering the point of a park?

Columns, editorials now online

The Trentonian's editorials and work by columnists Jeff Edelstein and L.A. Parker, starting today, will be available at www.trentonian.com.
Click the links below for some of the most recent stuff:
EDITORIAL: Street cameras make us safer
EDITORIAL: Top 10 reasons to feel good about the Phillies
L.A. PARKER: Princeton, Hampton, Einstein, Robeson
L.A. PARKER: Fire radiates pride for city heroes
L.A. PARKER: In China via Winslow, parents and dreamwork
JEFF EDELSTEIN: Referendum time is upon us
JEFF EDELSTEIN: Mother Nature’s late season treat
JEFF EDELSTEIN: Banned cupcakes? You gotta be kidding
JEFF EDELSTEIN: Four words: sausage, cannolis, dancing and beer
JEFF EDELSTEIN: Medical ‘advice’ from Dr. Jeff

Gilmore race-baiting?

You don't have to feel the air getting colder or see the lawn signs cropping up to know that an election is nearing.
Just listen to the tone of rhetoric coming from Hamilton Mayor Glen Gilmore.
His recent pledge to open a can of whup-ass on anyone who happens to look shady in Hamilton public spaces is a thinly veiled attempt to make himself look tough on crime ahead of November's voting.
While the idea of putting cameras in a crime-ridden area is sound, Gilmore's comments smacked of race-baiting.
By "outsiders," he meant people from Trenton, and by people from Trenton, he meant black people.
It's silly and small-minded for many reasons, but also because Hamilton is a pretty diverse community itself, with its own problems, created by its own residents.
The other thing that was kind of ridiculous about his comments was that he wants to prevent loitering at a public park.
What are you supposed to do at a park besides loiter? Work?
Isn't loitering the point of a park?