Speak Out!

By Mark Grieco, Somerset. Where the Soviet Union failed for decades with the threat of tanks and missiles, Trump accomplished in one week from the podium: the subordination of America to Russia. As someone that served in the US Infantry in Germany during the Cold War, I welcomed the collapse of the Soviet Union as the final triumph of America …

Submitted by Franklin Township Task Force on Compressor Station 206 & NESE’s Steering Committee. Health & safety of people, wildlife, vegetation, trees, air, & water – now and for decades to come – is at risk. If NESE’s Compressor Station 206 and pipeline in & by the Raritan Bay are constructed, we and future generations will be subjected to risks …

By Arnold W. Schmidt, Somerset The placement in Franklin Township of life size statues and busts of Mother Theresa, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela for a proposed Peace and Non-Violence park is being hotly debated and is potentially divisive. These are four people who are accepted worldwide as having performed great and honorable endeavors. The …

Twelfth Congressional District Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman today released the following statement thanking the New Jersey State AFL-CIO for their endorsement of her campaign for re-election and vowing to continue fighting side by side with working families throughout the district. “I am proud to have earned the New Jersey State AFL-CIO’s endorsement of our campaign for re-election because that is …

By Daryl Kipnis, Republican candidate for U.S. Congress from the 12th District. The irrational and desperate hatred displayed by apoplectic Hollywood leftist elites like Bill Maher and Robert DeNiro in the face of the historic foreign and domestic policy accomplishments of President Donald J. Trump and the Republican leadership in Washington, D.C., demonstrate that the Democrats’ fantasies of a “Blue …

By Mayor Philip Kramer. Citizens of Franklin, I’m pleased to tell you the state of the township is good.  I am very proud of the accomplishments of the council, staff and citizens of Franklin. I want to emphasize, with few exceptions, these are not my accomplishments but accomplishments of the whole community. The Police Department We recently underwent a change …

By Bill Connell,Somerset. Before I get rolling, I would like to suggest to someone important that tractor-trailers have better brake lights. Those two cute little circles on the back don’t really get the point across. If you look at Volvo station wagons they have a band of brake lights. In the month of May I drove over 2,000 miles. Most …

By Linda Powell. This Project proposes building an industrial gas compressor station complex in Franklin, which would emit tons of airborne toxins for decades to come and constructing a 23.4 miles pipeline across Raritan Bay using 15,350 acres of seafloor workspace & distributing 117 acres of seafloor. I Wish I knew…Is it too Late?? No, it’s not too late… yet. …

By Imam Rizwan Rizvi, Minister of Religion, Masjid-E-Ali “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere”- Ali ibn Abi Tālib This Saturday March 31st 2018, millions of people around the world observe the birth anniversary of a man whose social justice work has been celebrated for …

by Ardaman Singh, Board of Education Vice President. I would like to bring to the attention of the general public,our public school parents and staff, that post the Parkland Shooting, we have all been on high alerts and have had our Superintendent give us nearly hourly updates via phone and emails about each and every situation at our schools, so …