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Vol. LXI, No. 43
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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Vol. LXI, No. 43
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
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 (Photo by E. Fling)
COKIE AND NORA: Political commentator and author Cokie Roberts took questions from WPVI-TV reporter Nora Muchanic following her address to a packed auditorium at Stuart County Day School last Thursday. The event was the third in the school’s Women in Leadership Forum series. |
Political commentator and author Cokie Roberts was the featured speaker at a Women in Leadership Forum hosted by the Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart last Thursday, October 18.
In 1975, when Arn Chorn-Pond was nine years old, Pol Pot’s Communist guerrilla army took over his homeland.
The Khmer Rouge regime’s “reconstruction” of Cambodia targeted ethnic minorities, the educated, and the middle class. Towns were emptied, schools closed, and temples destroyed. Some two million people (one fifth of the nation) died, including Mr. Chorn-Pond’s family.
Lance Liverman lives on the edge — literally, the edge of Princeton Township proper. On a clear day from his Witherspoon Street front door, you can see Princeton Borough, and have no idea that there is a municipal line in between.
It was 1987, and the Republican party was the majority on Township Committee. Then along came a newcomer to the political arena who would ultimately go on to dominate Township government, maintaining a campaign promise from that first run: to keep a “fresh perspective.”
Esther Mills does a lot of talking, just ask the guests on her weekly talk show on Princeton Community Television, and you’ll find out how it’s gotten her involved politically.
Some people feel the political calling through civic involvement. Cindy Randazzo was drawn to politics over a bowl of chili.