Category: Examiner Opinion
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Brookdale plans campus walkway
The Brookdale Community College campus in Lincroft will be getting a facelift – courtesy of Monmouth County and the state. The project will overhaul the existing pedestrian thoroughfare into a new path that is intended to enhance the aesthetics of the campus and allow students to more easily take advantage of Brookdale’s outdoor space. The…
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Rutgers U. feasibility study to examine adaptive sports
By KENNY WALTER Staff Writer When Eric Katz of Monroe Township, Middlesex County, was looking to begin his career as a wheelchair athlete, his first choice was at his home school of Rutgers University in New Brunswick. However, Katz, now 32, had to enroll at the University of Arizona because Rutgers did not offer an…
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History and civics must be taught in school
Educating future generations of American students in American history and civics is a fundamental requirement for living in the United States. Any person who has run for elected office can attest to the lack of understanding of how county and local level government works or the positions and titles of the elected officials. Currently, the…
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Increase funding for housing vouchers
For thousands of New Jerseyans with mental illness and other disabilities, housing choice vouchers are a lifeline that helps them live in safe, independent homes and avoid homelessness. Housing vouchers provide rental assistance for affordable permanent housing, a steppingstone that makes it possible for people to rebuild their lives and work toward recovery. Many of…
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Flipping the calendar pages
GIRL TALK Clare Marie Celano No matter how you slice it folks, eventually, we do turn into our parents — like it or not. This welcome or dreaded transformation, however we see this phenomenon, does happen — at least, according to my oldest daughter who recently looked at me and said, “Oh my God. It’s…
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Make bases in United States a priority
Monmouth County Freeholder Lillian Burry was 100 percent correct in noting, in her recent letter to the editor, that the closure of Fort Monmouth by the feds has cost New Jerseyans jobs and dollars. And of course she is also 100 percent correct in stating that our military bases here in the United States should…
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STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER ERIC SUCAR Garden State farms have provided a bounty of beautiful vegetables.
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Members of two school boards tussle over tuition
By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent MILLSTONE — The members of two school boards recently found themselves at odds over a situation involving tuition payments. The Millstone Township K-8 School District Board of Education has a send-receive relationship with the Upper Freehold Regional School District (UFRSD) Board of Education in which high school age residents of Millstone…
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Drop the labels, we are all Americans
When you put a label on something, you separate it from everything else around it. For example, if you have a box of shoes and you label one pair “brown shoes,” you have a box of shoes that contain one pair of brown shoes, separating them from the rest. We have been doing the same…