Dear the Editor of the Johnsonville Press,

As a part of a class project at Rutgers University, I came across a website that evaluates many charitable organizations to help donors make the most informed decisions. The website is Charitynavigator.org. Because of its high level of helpfulness, I feel the need to share my knowledge of the website to as many people as possible, hopefully through the help of the Johnsonville Press.

Local Group Urges Senate to Vote Down S-3157
Today, the State Senators of New Jersey are being asked to vote on S-3157. If signed into law, it would extend the time citizens must wait between submitting petitions for charter changes from 4 years to 10 years.  This is unreasonable, undemocratic, and harmful overall to civic engagement, and we are asking our State Senators to vote against this measure.

Power Lays in Certainty … Adaptability vs Resistance

The question of where nature ranks in our system of values is crucial if we are to find a positive alternative to traditional environmentalism; whether we can solve rather than just manage the problems industry currently creates. Granted, the chameleon characteristics of sustainability enhance its universal appeal; and the concept has begun shifting the debate from traditional environmentalism, with its rhetoric of limitations and protectionism, to a more complex process of conceptual and real trade-offs between social, economic and environmental priorities.

OVER THE PAST WEEK A CONTROVERSY HAS ERUPTED AT RUTGERS UNIVERSITY…

Volunteers collected takeout meals donated by students and drove them to a soup kitchen

The soup kitchen happily accepted over 100 hot meals in 2 days, delivered by our volunteers

Dining Services Director asked us to leave, saying he will “confiscate and destroy” the meals we had already collected.

Dining Services employees stole about a …

As our consciousness evolves into a shared sense of conscience, truly sustainable change becomes not only possible but inevitable. In 1962, with the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the romantic works of wilderness appreciation were at last wedded to a scientific basis for concern, but the canary in the mine was not singing. Silent Spring did not spark a fundamental conceptual shift away from the flawed system of the Industrial Revolution.

Bright red messenger bags and their hosts flit from room to room bearing three very different messages: professionalism from pharmaceutical emissaries; academia from doctors and; collegiality from those waiting with bated breath for conference presenters to cure Cancer before their eyes.

Gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett’s belief that imposing a sales tax upon services can automatically facilitate the reduction of property taxes is fundamentally flawed as it incorrectly assumes that consumers will continue to spend on those services at the same rate after these sales tax increases are implemented. Imposing a sales tax on services would ultimately result in consumers spending less on these services in New Jersey thereby increasing the probability that New Jersey consumers will either stray to neighboring states to pay for these services or will simply not utilize …

In My Image
In Thursday’s Targum, Ysabel Gonzalez wrote an opinions article entitled Cracks in Another Red Tape System (found here). In this article Ms. Gonzalez points out the lack of personal attention given to students here at Rutgers, as well as in institutions for higher education in general. She claims that professors and the University at large are not interested in individual students and their needs, but rather in the statistics which represent them. She believes that professors need to take more of an initiative to connect with students …

A great deal of Rutgers students affectionately call New Brunswick “home,” at least for eight months out of the year. While the city certainly isn’t without its quirks (we like it that way), it has been a model for growth and development, dating back long before any of us were students. The city of New Brunswick and Rutgers University have together enjoyed over two decades of vast revitalization and enhancement, and that’s no coincidence.

“NObama has called for innovations such as a public health insurance plan to compete with private insurers, but he has not insisted on it. It was not clear Tuesday the degree to which he might press for various proposals in a new speech.” AP via Yahoo.

Drudge says that Politico says he’s totally backing down from the Public Option. I knew he was going to crack. TURKEY!!! You should have run as a Republican, you would have gotten more stuff done, honestly.