Category: Examiner Opinion

  • Greg Bean

    Coda In spring, she bares the collector’s soul My wife spent the weekend giving the upstairs a spring cleaning, and at the end there were many trash bags filled with mysterious stuff. “What’s in the bags?” I asked. “Nothing much,” she said. And so I didn’t even peek before she hauled those bags outside where…

  • Residents are feeling pain of school costs

    We have come to the time of year when New Jersey residents will head to the voting booth to cast their ballot on the only budget on which they are asked their opinion – school budgets. Municipal governments do not place their budget before voters for approval, and the governor and state Legislature would not…

  • Resident congratulates Allentown High School lacrosse teams

    I would like to congratulate the Allentown varsity boys lacrosse team on their first victory this year versus Northern Burlington. This is the first year that Allentown has fielded a boys and girls varsity lacrosse team. I am very happy to see that they have already chalked up a victory so early in their inaugural…

  • Assemblyman blasts school-funding methods

    Joseph Malone speaks about Abbott districts, property-tax convention BY JANE MEGGITT Staff Writer BY JANE MEGGITTStaff Writer ALLENTOWN – Assemblyman Joseph R. Malone III (R-District 30) has alleged if the state does not do something about the way schools are funded, only “the filthy rich and the obscenely poor” will be able to live in…

  • Make pension double dipping a crime for public employees

    This is an open letter to Gov. Jon Corzine. Did you know that in Indiana it is a crime, punishable by a jail term, for state, county or township employees to double dip on pension programs? I am concerned about tax dollars being wasted, and this is one easy way to cut tax expenses without…

  • Legislature urged to pass housing assistance law

    It’s getting harder and harder to keep up with the rent in New Jersey. But there is good news for so many struggling families. Gov. Jon Corzine’s increased funding for the State Rental Assistance Program (SRAP) offers real hope to over 4,000 households in New Jersey. We at Homes for New Jersey thank the governor…

  • For the Record

    An article titled “Local officials frown upon Corzine’s police proposal” in the April 6 Examiner states that Roosevelt could be affected by Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposal to assess fees to municipalities that rely on the N.J. State Police. However, the proposal would only apply to those municipalities that have a tax rate below the average…

  • Obituaries

    Carmelina “Millie” Guzzo Mrs. Guzzo, 90, of Manalapan, died April 6 at the John L. Montgomery Care Center, Freehold Township. Born in Lawrence, Mass., she lived in New York City before moving to Manalapan eight years ago. Mrs. Guzzo was a seamstress in Manhattan for many years. She was a former communicant of St. Simon…

  • Letters

    Motivation is a desire for small-town life I have lived in Roosevelt for almost 30 years because of its live-and-let-live atmosphere. However, to maintain this environment, many of us have been fiercely anti-development. The goal of maintaining Roosevelt as a small town has led some of us to be strongly opposed to any increase in…