Category: HUB Opinion
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Bill would move school election, end budget vote
BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer New Jersey Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts (D-Camden) has introduced legislation that would eliminate the state’s April school election and move the election for school board members to the date of the November general election. The bill recently had a hearing before the Assembly Education Committee. Under the terms of the…
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Pallone thanked for efforts for diabetes program
Nearly 21 million adults and children in the United States have diabetes, one of the nation’s most debilitating and deadly diseases. Each year, it costs the United States more than $174 billion and an estimated $5.8 billion in New Jersey alone. Last year, Rep. Pallone played an important role in enacting a one-year extension of…
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Coda
My advice: Throw the eminent domain case out GREG BEAN Even though I give the best advice of anyone I know (I always agree with it and take my own advice), the people who work with me don’t always act on my advice. Gregory Bean is executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. You can reach…
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Ethereal Reflections
Designed by Eileen Russell Gerber Intricate patterns created by reflected light are the focus of an exhibit at McKay Imaging Photography Studio & Gallery in Red Bank. Reflection No. 33 “Ethereal Reflections,” the first solo exhibit of photographs by Rande Johnson, opens Friday and will run through June 19 at the Monmouth Street gallery. An…
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Red State/Blue State
Sadly, what we have here is a failure to be happy DAVE SIMPSON & GREG BEAN 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 GreaterMedia Newspapers. Let us know what you think. Dear Greg: I got…
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Juror excess a great waste of human time and money
The following was taken from the juryWeb site indicating who is to report on Wednesday May 14, 2008. Monmouth County Superior Court Jury Reporting Information for Jurors Scheduled the Week of May 12, 2008: Reporting Instructions for Wednesday, May 14, 2008 Jurors in Group 3 with Numbers 0001- 1,000 report 8:30 a.m. Jurors in Group…
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Gsell resigns Two River Theater Company position
RED BANK – The Two River Theater Company board of trustees will launch a national search for a successor to managing director Guy Gsell, who has resigned after six years with the company. “As our managing director these past six years, Guy guided each of our days because he held a vision of what we…
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In the Arts
An encore presentation of “Greetings FromAsbury Park” will be aired on NJN 8:30 p.m. FridayMay 23. The programwill be rebroadcast onWednesday,May 28, at 11:30 p.m. This special edition of NJN’s award-winning “State of theArts” series examines the history and culture ofAsbury Park fromthe 1870s to the present against the parameters of religion, race, real estate,…
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Coda
There’s just no market for used, gas-guzzling pickups GREG BEAN When some people get to my age and tap their memory banks, they say they often associate important events in their lives with songs. Gregory Bean is executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. You can reach him at [email protected]. For one female friend of my…
