Time to Update the Budget Process

Regardless of which side you come down on for Governor Corzine’s Fiscal 2010 budget proposal, most of us would agree that the process that New Jersey uses to enact the state budget is ripe for improvements. The Hall Institute's Richard Lee offers some suggestions in It's Time to Update the Budget Process.

Lee to Present
Vietnam Paper in NYC

Hall Institute Communications Director Richard A. Lee will discuss media coverage during the Vietnam War era at an academic conference in New York City tomorrow.

Lee will present the paper, The Folksinger as a Walking Newspaper: How Protest Music Functioned as Alternative Media during the Vietnam War Era, at the joint spring meeting of the American Journalism Historians Association and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication History Division. The session will take place at Marymount Manhattan College.

The Yankee Clipper — Joe DiMaggio passed away 10 years ago this month. Read what made the Yankee centerfielder so special in Why DiMaggio Will Remain Immortal by the Hall Institute's Michael P. Riccards.

Speaking of Baseball— In a Hall Institute Policycast, Riccards reflects on baseball, heroes, spring training and the impact of steroids. Listen

Hall Institute Gala— Our Gala Dinner Reception in honor of Robert P. Haney Jr. was a great success. Photos from the event are now online. View

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