New Jersey Pride

I really should handle this one. The good news is that Stephen is back from his Far East honeymoon, safe and sound, but while he'd usually be our hockey correspondent -- given the fact that he cares about the sport, and I only write about it when my other job requires it -- he's 1) currently saddled with a body clock that is telling him it's 13:72 a.m., Bermuda Triangle time and 2) such a devout New York Rangers fan that it'd be hard for him to write a post about the New Jersey Devils without inserting all-caps "Let's Go Rangers" interjections throughout. And anyway, as New Jersey relatives, we both share a track record with the Devils that goes back to their old Christmas Tree Color Scheme days, so I'm qualified.

We are not made of stone. There's a wide streak of New Jersey Partisanship running through gbNYC, which means that every bit of good green news coming out of the Garden State is greeted by -- well, we don't pop champagne at gbNYC World Headquarters, but everyone digs it. We reported on Trenton's very ambitious Trenton Green Initiative way back in June, and have followed -- with great interest and not a little bit of home-state pride -- two large-scale mixed-use green real estate development projects in Jersey's state capital. The first -- Full Spectrum's 2.33 acre, $175 million urban in-fill mixed-use Trenton Town Center development -- got off to an exciting start in 2007, but is by all accounts dead.