Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Obituaries

    Rudolph “Rudy” O. Hoch Mr. Hoch, 85, of Mount Laurel, died Sept. 20, 2007. Born in Germany on March 27, 1922, to Irmgard (Lenz) and Hans Hoch, he came to the United States as a young boy and grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. He studied engineering at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., and…

  • Stroke victim calls for FDA regulation of tobacco products

    Who would have thought that a box of macaroni and cheese is more rigorously regulated than tobacco products such as a pack of cigarettes produced with poisons and addictive substances, including arsenic, formaldehyde, benzene and nicotine? Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States, killing more than 400,000 Americans each year,…

  • March of Dimes supports children’s health insurance bill

    Imagine that every pregnant woman and infant in the U.S. has health insurance that allows them to get the health care they need. Unlikely? Actually, this year we have an excellent opportunity to make great progress in reaching this goal. As a parent and March of Dimes board chairman, I have seen infants and children…

  • Results of ‘basic civics’ test can be misleading

    GREG BEAN Coda The national papers and pundits were all atwitter last week over the results of a test given to 14,000 college students across the country that seemed to suggest that lots of them got stupider during their four years of expensive education instead of smarter. The test, the results of which were released…

  • Millstone Twp. School District sets new goals

    Schools hope to expand communication efforts, programs, technology BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – Township students may soon have online textbooks and new gifted and talented programs. Superintendent of Schools Mary Anne Donahue discussed the implementation of these items and other Millstone Township School District goals for 2007-08 at the Sept. 10 Board of…

  • Yeshiva made no effort to fit into community

    When I came to Roosevelt as a child in the 1950s, the town was still primarily a Jewish one, known as an experimental town for its architecture and idealistic views. Garment workers originally came to self-manage the factories, and later artists, writers and musicians followed, looking for a welcoming place to live, work and raise…

  • Group matches those who are willing to donate organs

    The generosity of live organ donors like Harry Warren is remarkable. But we wouldn’t need many live organ donors if Americans weren’t burying or cremating 20,000 transplantable organs every year. There is another good way to put a big dent in the organ shortage. If you don’t agree to donate your organs when you die,…

  • Board still tallying new school costs

    District hires interim business administrator to replace Brian Boyle BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – The new middle school may be up and running, but costs associated with the project remain on the Board of Education’s agenda. At its Sept. 10 meeting, the board approved a change order in the amount of $25,067 to…

  • Millstone under pressure to find busing solution

    BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer MILLSTONE – Parents of nonpublic school students continue to petition the Board of Education for help in finding their kids a ride to school. Resident Karen Fair, whose child attends St. John Vianney High School in Holmdel, asked the board at its Sept. 10 meeting about the status of busing…