Here is an excellent op ed in the Wall Street Journal, written by a columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger. OpinionJournal – Cross Country
It is full of hope that Newark will experience a renaissance, as a new mayor (37 year old Cory Booker) takes over. I hope so. I know Newark quite well, having several clients who own businesses there. For the last twenty years Mayor Sharpe James ruled the roost. Now Sharpe James made people like former Mayor Marion Barry of Washington DC (remember him?) look like St. Vincent De Paul. How did the man, who never worked in the private sector, manage to accumulate all those houses, and boats, and cars?
I was at a fundraiser for St. Benedict’s Prep – an inner city high school in Newark – a couple of nights ago and several people (including the Headmaster of the school, Fr. Ed Leahy, OSB, speaking from the podium) seemed hopeful for positive change. Fr. Ed even used the term "a renaissance."
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