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California, long the Land of the Loon, is now floating another loony idea: Legalize marijuana and tax it in an effort to close the budget gap.A state slug, cranking his (alleged) brain up to 40 watts

I can recite the 15 or so stops on New Jersey Transit’s North Jersey Coast Line in my sleep. I’ve made the trip from New York to Long Branch more often than I’d like to consider. My

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Greetings from the White Plains Mall where, in true Macke Family Fashion, I’m teaching my kids how to gauge the economy by starting at the consumer end and working your way up the ladder, throu

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