Category: Atlanticville Opinion
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Eminent domain rules must be tightened
Your Turn Michael J. Panter and Robert L. Morgan Guest Column Michael J. Panter and Robert L. MorganGuest Column The use of eminent domain has always involved a delicate balance between public benefit and property rights. Through a series of Supreme Court decisions, that balance has tipped away from property rights, and the once clear…
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Letters
Wiesenthal’s legacy one of tolerance I read, with a great deal of sadness, on many front pages of the passing of the great Simon Wiesenthal. While most articles and obituaries spoke of his surviving the Holocaust in concentration camps and his tenacious pursuit of Nazis throughout his long life, I have seen another aspect of…
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Obituaries
Allen M. Nicas, M.D. Allen M. Nicas, M.D., 84, of Long Branch, died Sept. 2 at St. Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch. He was born in New York City. He established his private general practitioner practice in Long Branch, in 1950, and was on the staffs at Monmouth Memorial…
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Letters
No The “dog and pony show” continues. On Tuesday, Sept. 13, the Long Branch City Council (aka Schneider’s City Council) voted 4 to 1 to continue with the plan to destroy the MTOTSA neighborhood. The lone-opposing vote belonged to John “Fazz” Zambrano to which I am not surprised. At a recent council meeting, I asked…
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Letters
Katrina catastrophe a ‘call to order ourselves’ In this 21st century, we boast about modern technology and being globally connected, yet as a country we have fared no better in the tragic wake of Hurricane Katrina than we would have in centuries past. We are totally desensitized, disconnected and disjointed as people in the big…
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Voters should decide issue of eminent domain
Your Turn Joseph W. Hottendorf Guest Column Joseph W. Hottendorf Guest Column In June, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion redefining and expanding this country’s law of eminent domain. Since that decision, I have been monitoring the press’s efforts to inform the state’s property owners of the serious implications this decision will have on…
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Obituaries
Albert S. Hunt Jr. Mr. Hunt, 69, of Keyport, died Sept. 11 at Jersey Shore University Hospital, Neptune. Born in Perth Amboy, he resided there before moving to Keyport 22 years ago. Mr. Hunt was vice president at Universal Filters, Asbury Park, for eight years. Prior to that, he was employed at Refilco Filters, Perth…
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