Author: waynenjdemsblog

No Excuse Statistics show that the United States consistently ranks near the bottom of most major developed democracies in voter turnout.  Wow, can you believe it?  We live in a Representative Democracy and yet we are not actively choosing those who would represent us.  That’s just shameful.  Our last local Ward election four years ago…

As someone who has lived in Wayne for decades, Valley Road between Preakness Avenue and Ratzer Road was almost always a three-lane road with far fewer cars than we have today. Now it is four lanes, two in each direction, undivided, and very heavily used. In just the past several years, we have had four…

With great power comes great responsibility. What Marvel fan doesn’t recognize these famous words spoken by Uncle Ben to his nephew, Peter Parker? When the chips are down, you can always count on Spider-Man to swing by and save the world. What would you think of a superhero who puts his or her own profit…

Those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are here.  It’s a time to sit back, relax and plan those long awaited vacations, but sadly not for us all. Thirty-four of our community members; friends and neighbors, must sit on pins and needles wondering if they will have a job come September. They were all required…

When the video of Wayne Councilman Richard Jasterzbski verbally attacking and abusing Susan Enderly-Peracchio was first made public in 2017, the attack made in front of her daughter who took and made public the video, I was appalled. So apparently was the majority of the Wayne Town Council, Republicans all. They voted to ask him…

Take action today to protect and improve Wayne’s water quality! Like Lake Hopatcong, waterways across the US are dealing with pollution problems.   Here in NJ, changing climate patterns are also affecting our ground and surface water. 2018 was the wettest on record for the Garden State. Our average precipitation is about 46 inches— last year,…

Sandy Hook School, Margery Stoneman Douglas High School, the Las Vegas Strip concert, Tree of Life Synagogue, the Pulse Nightclub. Any one of these mass shootings should have our government reexamining the way law enforcement tracks guns. We put a man on the moon fifty years ago; so we have to be able to stop…

Our Founding Fathers created America as a reaction against Europe’s royal dynasties. Today, dynastic wealth threatens our democracy, putting economic and political power into the hands of the privileged few and their heirs. In the 1970’s, the wealthiest 10 percent owned a third of US total household wealth; today, they control 75 percent.  Meanwhile, nearly…

Republicans claim their tax cut has turned the economy around. They say we are in an economic boom. But the bottom half of our society has not made economic progress for a half century, and the Trump tax plan hasn’t fixed anything – rather it has siphoned more wealth up to the wealthiest Americans. Yes,…

A misguided group of hate-filled bigots has recently circulated a letter suggesting that a home under construction in the Packanack Lake community is un-American because the façade includes an Arabic inscription “God has willed. God bless.” A visit to the home reveals that it also flies an American flag. Apparently, the angry “patriots” have forgotten…