NJ visits

Several days ago, Gov. McGreevey banned Pay-to-Play, the practice of "bribes for work." Prior to the executive order, if you were a contractor or vendor and wanted the State to select you to do a big construction project or other big project, you had to "donate" a lot of money to a political compaign. Smaller companies decried this practice, saying that since they weren't funnelling hundreds of thousands of dollars to a person's re-election campaign, they weren't going to get selected to do work for the state. We'll see how everything goes with the order and how long it lasts. It is currently set to expire in 2006.

I'm back in New Jersey! To get back yesterday, I took a Chinatown bus to Philly, the Septa to Trenton, and then NJ Transit back to Princeton. I met up with Katy and Philip in Fine. Dave drove us back to the train station, met up with Xcott, and took the train to New York to get on the Metro to get to Brooklyn to have some Haitian food. (Lots of travel, considering I could've just gone directly to NY on the train and saved a few hours.) We ate at Kombit, which was good for it's Haitian food.