Cover Stories

Debbie Schaeffer takes her passion for the arts beyond Mrs. G’s

Debbie Schaeffer is CEO of Mrs. G’s Appliances in Lawrence Township. Her grandparents, Abe and Beatrice Greenberg, opened a plumbing supply store on East State Street in Trenton in...

La’Keisha Sutton goes from Globetrotter to community mentor

La’Keisha Sutton is a hooper, a serious basketball player who shares her skills, training methods, mindset and approach....

Art Cart delivers a new kind of soul food to town

It’s a hot summer day and brightly dressed Brook Beatty stands on South Broad Street in downtown Trenton. After...

Laura Benanti brings ‘Nobody Cares’ home

Laura Benanti says she is “blessed to be a chameleon.” Her context is unexpected. She is not referring to being...

Hopewell Valley Stage reopens after summer hiatus

Hopewell Valley Stage has resumed programming after a six-week summer hiatus, returning with a new website, improvements to...

Holding On To The Most Fragile Gifts of Life

What I remember most when my son was born at Mercer Medical Center in Trenton (now Capital Health at Mercer) 15 years ago was...

Three Hospitals, Dozens Of Ways To Volunteer

Nancy Schumacher’s hands are literally “helping hands” in the NICU at Capital Health at Mercer (see story "Holding On To The Most Fragile Gifts...

An Ex-Exec’s So-Called Retirement

The Japanese have a different concept of retirement than we. Ours is something akin to being put out to pasture. Japan’s is more a...

The New Muslim Middle Class: Shazib Jamil

Islam and its place in the world is a complex thing, although you would never know it if your only exposure to Muslims is...

The New Muslim Middle Class: Vali Nasr

We in the west have been carefully taught. The nations of Islam, we are assured, are not like us. They are completely unresponsive to...

Excerpt: What Does and Does Not Work In Iran

Vali Nasr, an Iranian-born scholar and advisor to the Obama White House, speaks on the rise of the Muslim middle class and the shaping...
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