I love Liz Lemon on 30 Rock. Played by Tina Fey, she is the head writer of the fictional, Tracy Morgan Show. Her position puts her in one many women find themselves in at work; high responsibility, middling influence, and…
Read MoreI have lived in Jersey City for seven years. It can be a labor of love. Snooki of the Jersey Shore cast briefly moved there. Hurricane Sandy showed me what a waterfront view could truly mean. Developers once tried to…
Read MoreLast week’s horrific Hoboken train terminal crash drove home a salient fact every Garden State resident knows: NJ infrastructure needs investment dollars. Long before last week, corporate leaders in NJ voiced their concern about infrastructure in a 2015 Chamber of…
Read MoreWhen I heard the news about the Brangelina split, I was dismayed. Celebrity marriages don’t usually have long lifespans, but I thought the Pitt-Jolie’s were different. They both shared a global mindset, an interest in humanitarian work, and a commitment…
Read MoreThe Problem Youth dating abuse and domestic violence is widespread; New York has the highest reported rate of sexual dating abuse and the third highest rate of physical dating abuse in the country according to the CDC’s 2015 Youth…
Read MoreI did not grow up with a cell phone or the Internet. When the digital world disrupted my world of land line telephones and computers with perfunctory word processing capabilities, it took me a while to adapt. But I did.…
Read MoreWomen are half of the U.S. and world’s population. But you wouldn’t know it looking at their representation in government. The Equality Indicators’ new report, “Who Runs Our Cities? The Political Gender Gap in the Top 100 U.S. Cities” documents…
Read MoreYou do not have to be a social scientist to know construction in NYC is booming. Walk in any neighborhood and you will see scaffolding and crudely constructed pedestrian pathways with heavy construction equipment teetering precariously overhead. I have actually…
Read MoreIn 2015 Fortune published a survey by Fatherly (a website for millennial Dads) on what their kids want to be when they grow up. The survey responses were culled from girls and boys, aged 10 and under. Here is what…
Read More“Problems Unsolved & A Nation Divided” is a new report from Harvard Business School on U.S. competitiveness. The title kind of says it all, but it is worth a deeper dive for the way it frames our current economic woes…
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