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| | PHALON'S FILE - 11/30/2008
12/02/2008
Hollberg an excellent choice
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 11/26/2008
11/26/2008
Better cookies through chemistry
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 11/19/2008
11/18/2008
That Championship Season
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 11/12/2008
11/12/2008
We’re living history
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 11/02/2008
11/05/2008
My small town
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 10/29/2008
10/29/2008
Feed the Bears
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 10/22/2008
10/22/2008
Joe the Columnist
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 10/15/2008
10/15/2008
The Halloween-Industrial Complex
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 10/08/2008
10/08/2008
Limit term limits
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| | PHALON's FILE - 10/01/2008
10/02/2008
Remembering quiet but star reporter
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 09/24/2008
09/24/2008
No bells or whistles in referendum
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 09/17/2008
09/17/2008
Let's get serious
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 09/10/2008
09/10/2008
My downtown move
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 09/03/2008
09/03/2008
Alzheimer's and Nan
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 08/27/2008
08/27/2008
Our top 10
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 08/20/2008
08/20/2008
Dropping the tailgate
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 08/13/2008
08/13/2008
Anne Milgram for governor!
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 08/06/2008
08/06/2008
More gas pains
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 07/30/2008
07/30/2008
Fashion police
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 07/23/2008
07/23/2008
Road scholars gone off to look for America
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 07/16/2008
07/16/2008
The Mother Road
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 07/09/2008
07/08/2008
Our field of dreams
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 07/02/2008
07/01/2008
Here at the ivy-covered halls of the Phalon Institute, we recently brought "Eddie" out of his self-imposed deep freeze.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 06/25/2008
06/25/2008
When I learned early Monday that George Carlin had died, I felt like something of mine was gone. Carlin was the first comic – or performer of any kind – that I and others of my ilk could call our own.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 6/18/2008
06/18/2008
It couldn’t have been more than two or three weeks ago when I was hanging around, making constructive purchases at Jones’ Hardware when a couple people were discussing that most dire shortage today.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 6/11/2008
06/18/2008
I was a little stunned to realize last week it had been 40 years since Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated. But then any year ending in “8” will have all sorts of anniversaries of events from 1968.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 6/4/2008
06/04/2008
Move school board elections to November? Bad idea. Eliminate public approval of school budgets? Ditto. Like the proposed deposit-bottle bill, tampering with school board and budget elections is another case of...
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 5/28/2008
05/29/2008
What’s it like to be one out of 100? In this case, pretty good. The Pequannock Township School District has been named one of the “100 Best Communities for Music Education” in the United States by the NAMM Foundation.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 5/21/2008
05/21/2008
The beverage container deposit proposal in the state legislature should stay bottled up in committee. Does that sounds like heresy from self-described environmentalist? I think not. Every once in a while somebody puts an idea...
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 5/14/2008
05/15/2008
For those of you old enough to remember – like me (barely) – the end of this month will be 40 years since the Memorial Day flood of 1968. There were floods before and there have been since. Particularly bad floods hit in 1955 and 1984.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 5/7/2008
05/07/2008
I’ve read two Stephen King novels. The first was “The Stand,” in which a biological warfare experiment escapes the military and wipes out 99 percent of the world population. A little grim.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 4/30/2008
05/07/2008
May 1 marks the fifth anniversary of 'Mission Accomplished,' the day President Bush rode a Lockheed S-3 Viking Navy fighter jet to the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln and declared 'major combat operations' in Iraq were over...
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 4/23/2008
04/22/2008
I used the self-checkout register at a supermarket recently, albeit grudgingly. Those registers are something I’ve avoided out of principle as much as convenience (or the lack of convenience, I should say).
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 4/16/2008
04/16/2008
We traveled down to Lancaster County, Pa., recently. We needed some jam.Although a route we’ve taken many times before, we decided to put our fate in the hands of “Myrna.” Or I should say the pixels of Myrna.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 4/9/2008
04/08/2008
By this time next year the wrecking balls will have completed their work in the Bronx and Willet’s point, and Shea Stadium will be a parking lot and Yankee Stadium will have been reduced to some sort of minimalist objet d’art.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 4/2/2008
04/02/2008
This past weekend was the end of the suburban hibernation period. That first weekend of spring when you see your neighbors for the first time since fall leaf raking.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 3/26/2008
03/26/2008
Getting gas, like haircuts, has always been one of those things I put off as long as I can. (Yeah, that was me on the side of the road with the gas can and the unkempt hair.)
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 3/19/2008
03/26/2008
Yogi Berra called it déjà vu all over again. And I’m going way back beyond Jim McGreevey.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 3/12/2008
03/12/2008
There are some things that are never going to happen. The Knicks winning the NBA championship this year. George Bush tap dancing in the White House. The residents of New Jersey agreeing to merge their towns.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 3/5/2008
03/12/2008
Wow, this is a good time to be me.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 2/27/2008
03/06/2008
Former Congressman Robert Roe deserves credit for asking the state legislature to reverse the plan to name Route 23 after him. I didn't like the idea very much myself.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 2/20/2008
03/05/2008
Okay, so it's only a TV show. But "Jericho" is back. Because of nuts like me and a whole lot of others.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 2/13/2008
02/20/2008
So many things we take for granted in our lives. Clean water. Warm homes. In fact, we have it so good in this country that one of our major problems - the expanding national waistline - suggests we have more than enough.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 2/6/2008
02/07/2008
Okay, I was wrong three weeks ago when I said that the Giants defeating the Cowboys was good enough for me, and that anything after that victory was icing on the cake. This was better.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 1/30/2008
01/31/2008
Until last week I had never been to the Statue of Liberty. I've lived and worked figuratively and literally within sight of the statue my entire life, but I had never set foot on Liberty Island, even when it was called Bedloe's Island.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 1/23/2008
01/23/2008
We expect a certain level of competence and professionalism from our public officials, particularly the police.
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| | PHALON'S FILE - 1/16/2008
01/23/2008
I am not a football fan. I am a Giants fan.
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