Category: HUB Opinion

  • Green roofs, walls becoming latest trends

    BY Gotti Kelley Correspondent It’s not what you think and, no, you did not forget to scrape off the moss up there. Green roofs and walls are all the rage and are appearing in ever-greater numbers on “green” houses, corporate headquarters and public buildings. GREEN SCENE Used by fashion designers, interior decorators and restaurateurs, these…

  • There are good speeches, and there are great ones

    DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN Red State/Blue State A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson – a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist – and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. Dear Greg: I notice that your bff (best friend forever, in case, like, you don’t know) candidate…

  • Coalition sees broad support for RCA ban

    Your Turn Over the past week we have heard many predictions of destruction and doom with calls for resistance from towns vowing to fight the recent legislative action to ban Regional Contribution Agreements – the loophole in our fair housing law that for two decades allowed New Jersey’s wealthiest towns to pay poor communities to…

  • Columnists not qualified to opine on religious leaders

    Greater Media newspapers have been running a series of exchanges between Executive Editor Greg Bean and his friend Dave Simpson, who is described as a seasoned newsman. I consider their exchanges as sleaze with the purpose of defaming Sen. Barack Obama through guilt by association. Even in that I consider them wrong because their attacks…

  • Lunch Break thanks Rotary of Red Bank

    For the past seven years the Rotary Club of Red Bank has organized Two Rivers Food and Wine Tastings that have raised much-needed funds for local charities. This year the event was held April 14 and the beneficiary was Lunch Break of Red Bank. The evening was a great success: close to 400 people feasted…

  • Facts about oil crisis are opinion, and deceitful spin

    Iread the opinion by Cindy Zipf of Clean Ocean Action, and her facts just don’t line up. What this organization claims to be factual is simply opinion. They offer no proof that the U.S. is exporting a half billion barrels of crude overseas. Further, they are trying to thwart energy companies from delivering less, not…

  • NOTES AROUND TOWN

    Geri Schleich, New Jersey Pajama Program Students at Ranney Middle School, Tinton Falls, spent the final two weeks of the school year collecting 60 pairs of new pajamas and more than 80 children’s books to benefit the Pajama Program Reading Room in Poricy Park in Middletown. Chapter president, was on hand May 23 to accept…

  • IN THE ARTS

    The New Jersey Repertory Company, 179 Broadway, Long Branch, is presenting the world premiere of the musical “The Little Hours” by David Bucknam, based on several short stories by Dorothy Parker, July 10 through Aug. 17. Regular performances run Thursdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.; and Sundays at…

  • Michael Anthony Violante

    Mr. Violante, 25, of Asbury Park, died June 29, 2008. He was a student at Brookdale Community College and had lived most of his life in Manalapan before moving to Asbury Park four years ago. Mr. Violante is survived by his parents, Joseph and Celia Violante of Manalapan; a son, Jordan Anthony of Tinton Falls;…