Category: HUB Opinion
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Realtors oppose home sales tax
The Monmouth County Association of Realtors opposes the bills (A-3190/S-2643, A- 3341, A-3387 and S-2080) before the state Legislature that would increase the New Jersey Home Sales Tax or Realty Transfer Fee. These proposed bills would allow local municipalities to charge a tax in addition to the taxes currently collected by the state. Any and…
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Bush veto debunks conservative image
President George W. Bush’s veto of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which provides health insurance to underprivileged children, proves once and for all that “compassionate conservatism” is nothing but an empty campaign slogan and an oxymoron. Eddie Konczal Monroe Township
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‘The Magnificent Thoroughbred’
Apair of visual arts events focusing on thoroughbred horses are taking place around the Breeders’ Cup meet at Monmouth Park “Steam” by Jon Kral “The Magnificent Thoroughbred,” featuring stunning equine photography and a compelling film festival, will be presented at Monmouth University in West Long Branch. The events will take place at Pollak Theatre and…
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Building bridges, changing lives
Concurrent photo exhibits on two campuses of Brookdale Community College offer a window into the work of Associate Professor Terry Konn and her students in Africa this summer. Terry Konn and Lloria The images show that their work built bridges between cultures and changed the lives of people living in Ghana and Rwanda. One of…
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IN THE ARTS
Portuguese fado phenom Mariza comes to Pollak Theatre at Monmouth University in West Long Branch Saturday, Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. Fado, which translates to “fate” in English, is a sometimes controversial style of urban Portuguese folk music full of great and uninhibited emotion which evolved among the working class in the early 19th century.…
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Tango: The king of all dances
Teacher sees dance as entrée to a cosmopolitan milieu BY LARRY RAPPOPORT Correspondent Fausto Bermeo knows the steps to happiness. And if you talk to him, you just might agree those steps lead right across a dance floor – more specifically, a tango dance floor. SCOTT FRIEDMAN Fausto Bermeo leads as a student practices the…
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Without bedrock voters, the party’s all but over
GREG BEAN Coda Afriend of mine, who’s also a newspaper columnist, lives in one of those red states, and is about as conservative as they come. I’ve always figured I was fairly conservative, but this guy’s dedication to the core philosophy puts mine to shame. Even mention Ronald Reagan’s name in his presence and he…
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Feeding the wolf
LINDA DENICOLA My Take Some people are voracious readers and I happen to be one of them. Right now on my night table, I have five books and two art magazines. The books are a novel by John Updike, about an elderly female artist being interviewed for an article; a memoir by Peter Manseau, subtitled…
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Robert R. Ayres Sr.
Mr. Ayres, 86, of Little Silver, died Oct. 8, 2007, at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. He had been a resident of Little Silver since 1950. He was a retired machinist at Fort Monmouth, Eatontown. He was also a self-employed repairman of lamps, chandeliers and antiques. He served with the U.S. Navy during World War…
