Michael O. Allen

Tag: New Jersey

  • A Brief Thought on 9/11

    I had not left home yet to go to work that day when an in-law called to tell me to turn on the television. One heavily-fueled jet had already slammed into one tower. People were dying, desperate to be saved from whatever this was, wherever this attack came from. I was a reporter at the…

  • N.J. Wins Battle In Sewage-Dump War

    February 19, 1997 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN, Daily News Staff Writer New York retreated in the Great Sewage War yesterday after tough talk from New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman. After a day of counter-charges, the city and state agreed to at least a year-long delay in plans to release 560 million gallons of raw sewage…

  • THE BIG FIX IN JERSEY; a brighter Star-Ledger

    May/June 1995 by MICHAEL O. ALLEN The Star-Ledger has always seen New Jersey — from the shore communities in the south through the urban/suburban sprawl of its central counties to the exurban north — as one big hometown, and it has chronicled its citizens’ common concerns. A common concern these days is the tumult of…

  • COMMUNITIES AS CRIME FIGHTERS MUST ACCEPT LARGER ROLE, EX-JUDGE SAYS

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, May 13, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | 4 Star | NEWS | B03 The head of a state committee looking into ways of relieving New Jersey’s overburdened criminal justice system said Tuesday that communities have to take on an expanded role in fighting crime. “A…

  • SPOTTING DRUG USE; Police Trained to Test Drivers

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, May 6, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | B01 In a program hailed as a new weapon against drugged drivers, state and local law enforcement officials Tuesday dedicated a center where suspected impaired drivers will be tested. They also recognized 40 police officers who…

  • FEDERAL LIMIT ON INMATES ASSAILED; Del Tufo Weighs Legal Challenge

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, April 1, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | B01 New Jersey Attorney General Robert J. Del Tufo said Tuesday that he is considering challenging federal court orders that limit the number of state prisoners in some county jails. “I would prefer…

  • SEX-ABUSE CASE TIED TO SNAPSHOTS; Bergen Teen in Photos, Not Baby Hope

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, March 15, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | A03 The Baby Hope mystery will have to endure, for now at least. New York City detectives, who attached the moniker “Baby Hope” to a dead girl whose body was found last year…

  • INMATE SUIT CHALLENGED; Case Against Bergen Jail Unproved, N.J. Says

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, March 11, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | B05 The state has asked the federal judge presiding over a lawsuit by Bergen County Jail inmates to reduce overcrowding at the jail to dismiss the suit, arguing that the inmates failed to…

  • FUGITIVE CAUGHT IN PARAMUS; Killer Is Found at Shopping Mall

    By David Gibson and Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writers | Sunday, January 19, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A01 The wide-ranging manhunt for a killer who fled a Connecticut prison on New Year’s Eve ended late Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of Garden State Plaza, where…

  • TRACK WORKERS UNDER SCRUTINY; REGULATORS VOW BETTER CHECKING

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Thursday, November 21, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | 5 Star | NEWS | Page B03 The New Jersey Racing Commission plans to meet with state and federal agencies in a effort to tighten up its worker licensing procedures, after 70 Meadowlands Racetrack stable hands were taken…