The black boxes positioned around our towns – outside of restaurants and supermarkets, next to dumpsters, maybe even in your neighbor’s yard – certainly serve a purpose. People understandably don’t like rats, so they aim to mitigate this problem by baiting the boxes with a poison known as SGARs (Sec...

On May 8 of 2025, The Leader published my letter describing censoring in federal grants supporting biomedical research. I described the impossible task of summarizing my research regarding long established biological differences in male and female kidney disease incidence without using words that tr...

Our family celebrated Easter at a Methodist Church near where my daughter and her family live. We were honoring our Christian son-in-law and his faith at this Easter service of salvation and new life.With our combination of backgrounds and religions: Jewish, Zoroastrian, and Christian, our family tr...

A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism Program

Our 7th District Congressman, Tom Kean, Jr., hasn’t been seen since early March when he began missing floor votes in the House of Representatives. Since then, he’s missed 100 roll call votes in addition to numerous committee meetings and in-person events with constituents and local groups, and his c...

A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramPersonally, I’ve learned to love getting up in the morning. My alarm used to go off at 7:20, I’d roll out of bed, brush my teeth, put on whatever was at the top of my laundry pile and be out the door by 7:35 for the quick drive down th...

The Friends of the Westfield Memorial Library recently hosted the 51st Used Book Sale. Over 1,100 people came to the sale and left with more books to read. We received over 25,000 books from local residents. While we appreciate each donation, the sweetest donations came from a local preschool class....

Presently, all towns are experiencing budget cycles of government. In our Garwood borough, a 380-unit high density project was opened 3 years ago and is now occupied. This complex sends 24 district students to our schools, four of them are special needs. These special needs students, that were not i...

TRENTON– The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the nation's leading small business advocacy association with over 6,000 members throughout the state, expressed its disappointment today as the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development (NJDOL) announced finalization of...

A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramCommitment Day is really cool. I quite enjoyed wearing my College of Charleston sweatshirt and seeing everyone else in their tops and their baseball caps (that they’ll probably never wear again).College is an extremely exciting prospec...