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BY MARTIN SCHWARTZ Special to Montclair Local Last week’s rushed, 4-3 council vote to modify Montclair’s downtown commercial parking zoning laws was just another sad display of our mayor and current Township Council’s "leading from behind" style of governance. This decision...

Rabbi David Greenstein asks: "Do we wish to return to systemic inequality and hatred or are we ready to build a better community and society?"

By SERGIO GONZALEZ Special to Montclair Local The upcoming referendum on whether Montclair should switch from an appointed to elected board of education model is very different from the other choices township voters face. Unlike the normal contests between candidates, it is quite literally a referendum on the value of elections, and of democratic norms...

The Montclair League of Women Voters proposes an alternative to having Mayor Sean Spiller, president of the NJEA, pick school board members.

Councilman Peter Yacobellis writes: "Growing up, I looked up to comic book superheroes. But it was this experience following 9/11 that showed me the real ones."

Parent Melanie Robbins says she doesn't feel safe with the current precautions taken to avoid coronavirus spread.

Writer Felix E. Cruz says when he drove around Montclair this Fourth of July, only about 10% of homes had flags out in front.

Celeste Fiore of the Trans Affirming Alliance was disheartened by pushback against Montclair's new law making single-user bathrooms gender-neutral.

The author of a letter to the editor said Meir Kahane shouldn't be dismissed as a racist. "This assertion is clearly wrong," Kevin Dawud Amin writes.

Writer Cordelia Siporin says the funding level shows "a disturbing lack of leadership, poor priorities and an embarrassingly bad sense of optics and timing."