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David Melvin Ackerman, 65 Obituaries David Melvin Ackerman, 65, went to be with the Lord on March 9, 2021 following a year-long battle with brain cancer. He was born in North Platte on April 15, 1955, a fitting date for one who became a tax accountant. The first of five children, David graduated from North Platte Senior High in 1973, attended community college in North Platte and graduated Hasting College in 1978. David ventured to Eugene, Ore. where he opened an energy contracting business. He...

© Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images What’s happened? Fears are growing that China’s current high-level review of its rare-earths policy could presage export restrictions that will wreck the supply chains for strategically crucial sectors including electric vehicles and renewable energy. China currently produces about 70% of rare-earth elements globally, and has used its dominance in the past as geopolitical and economic leverage. Citing anonymous sources close to China’s review, Bloomberg ...

China’s stranglehold on rare-earth minerals – resources essential for our modern high-tech world – has some analysts worried. Should we be too?

Feb. 18—For the last year, churches of all faiths have had to adapt to worshipping and praying remotely thanks to the onset of COVID-19 and the resulting pandemic. And while churches have been allowed to return to in-person services as the result of a Supreme Court ruling last week — albeit with a strict capacity rule — one Lodi house of worship decided to observe Ash Wednesday in a way that ...

The emergency declaration extended on Wednesday will carry New Jersey across the threshold of one year spent battling the coronavirus.

NorthJersey.com ATLANTIC CITY — On a lead-gray day this week, Lesley Kittler of Fair Lawn drove to this city by the sea to play a little poker, maybe try her luck on the slot machines, too.  But soon enough, she found herself staring into the hollowed casino legacy of Donald Trump. As a cut-to-bone wind swept off the choppy Atlantic and across a mostly deserted boardwalk, Kittler took in the ragged remains of the former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. The casino’s tower is slated to be blown...

Alexandra Shapiro, J.D., and Peter Ackerman, Ph.D. join T. J. O’Hara, the host of Deconstructed, to discuss the incredible imbalance in our Nation’s presidential election that makes it almost impossible for independent and Third-Party candidates to gain any traction with their campaigns. Ms. Shapiro is a partner and co-founder of Shapiro Arato Bach and has the distinction of being one of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s first clerks.  She has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Sou...

2020 in photos: Asbury Park Press and APP.com photographers select their best work Replay Video These photographers made sure of it. Here are some of the best photos to appear in the Asbury Park Press and on APP.com during 2020, with the photographers telling the story in their own words. © Peter Ackerman Jamar Lewis holds 5-month-old Amerius Lewis of Neptune during a rally in Asbury Park protesting the police-involved death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Many marched peacefully in the stre...

Staff report As 2020 comes to a close, we think about what this year has been for each of us. In looking at ourselves, we also asked seven prominent New Jerseyeans to share how a virtue, be it humor, grit, faith, resilience, compassion, joy or patience helped them survive 2020.  This group includes a former governor, a James Beard Chef, an internet superstar, a Rutgers Law dean, two medical professionals and a rock star. Dena Blizzard - Humor "If someone had told me that being a comedian and ...

2020 galvanized democracy reforms, but more are needed | Opinion Updated Dec 27, 2020; By Morton Kondracke If Bill Gates, Barack Obama, NPR, Amazon and big and small publications can name their best books of 2020, so can I. Everyone in the Biden administration and Congress — and you, too — should read these two: Fareed Zakaria’s “Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World” and Robert Putnam’s “The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again.” Both are...