1. Killing by Remote Control
(World/International)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ or UAV’s; you know them as drones. They can fly with payloads including still cameras, video cameras, infrared ...

2. Monetary Rape: Jersey's Budget Fiscal Responsibility is a Joke
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION/COMMENTARY “This plan is not only a matter of fairness and responsibility with pension payments, it is really about the full range of government ...

3. The Right of Way Not Taken: N.J. Legislators are Off Track
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY/OPINION Did someone put something in the drinking water of the Statehouse? What is going on with our legislators? Property taxes are going ...

4. The Lost Clinton Fortune
(U.S./Nation)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY/OPINION All of us have drawers full of objects, gifts that we have never used (and probably never will), furniture we don’t really need ...

5. Gerontocracy - The Aging House and Senate
(U.S./Nation)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM President Obama signed up for the "bronze" Obamacare plan, designed to promote enrollment which costs about $400 per month. Of course, there was no ...

6. A University Without Diversity; Rutgers Loses Out
(N.J./State)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION/COMMENTARY di·ver·si·ty 1. the state or fact of being diverse; difference; unlikeness: diversity of opinion. 2. ...

7. The Insidious New Jersey Realty Transfer Stealth Tax
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY/OPINION Governor Christie is absolutely on track in his questioning of the Realty Transfer Fee (RTF), and if anything should he be able ...

8. The Day Printing Died: The Reality Hits Home in N.J.
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION/COMMENTARY As the Internet replaces print journalism, those in media who don't adjust might not survive too much longer, you either learn to ...

9. Something Stinks in China ... Michelle Obama's $8,350 a Night Presidential Suite
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY As millions are counting pennies and living on ramen noodles, in case you were wondering or didn’t know . . . Michelle Obama, her daughters, ...

10. Hey, New Jersey: Smoke, Smoke that Cigarette
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY New Jersey Democrat Assemblywoman Valerie Huttle is sponsoring a bill that would ban smoking at all parks and beaches. The controversial ...

11. A Real New Jersey Mess: The Pension Sinkhole
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION Democrat Governor Jim Florio was the first to use the pension fund as a fallback piggy bank in a time of crisis. In 1992, facing a budget ...

12. Are Soldiers Under a Democrat Less Dead Than Under a Republican?
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you But my words, like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells ...

13. The Insurance That is All About Nothing ...
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone and his cronies like to say they want people to be insured and have a good policy when it comes to health ...

14. Drought in America: California's Man Made Problem?
(U.S./Nation)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY About 65 percent of California receives less than 20 inches of rainfall per year, most of that during the winter months. Most of the state ...

15. Autocracy is the Future of America
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION In a December speech Obama said “I believe this is the defining challenge of our time, it drives everything I do in this office.” He is correct ...

16. Dawn's Twilight: Taking to Task Hoboken Mayor Zimmer
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION Hoboken’s Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s claimed that the Lt Governor told her to push forward with the Rockefeller project if she wanted to receive more ...

17. A N.J. Hustle: So Whose Eyes is Sweeney Trying to Pull the Wool Over?
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION N.J. State Senate President Steve Sweeney had no problem with the economy under Florio and Corzine, but now he decides to blame Christie for ...

18. GOP's Almost Crowning Moment
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION The GOP appears to be making at least some headway in its fight to retake Congress riding a wave of public discontent with Obamacare . However ...

19. Mad as Hell: Higher Taxes and Increased Debt Have Plagued N.J.
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION Unbelievable! When the hell is enough, enough? Democratic Senate President Stephen Sweeney says New Jersey can’t afford a 10 percent income-tax ...

20. My Latest Rant About the Minimum Wage
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOE SINAGRA SPECIAL TO NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OPINION I am tired of hearing the whiners complain about how Wal-Mart, McDonalds and such don’t pay enough. That is why we supposedly have a free ...