Category: Independent Opinion
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Keyport better off without ordinance
The Keyport Borough Council made the right move by shelving an ordinance that would have banned renting housing to illegal immigrants. This ordinance would have overstepped the legal bounds of a municipality when its goals could have been accomplished through local laws already on the books. The measure was first proposed by Councilman Joseph Wedick…
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Coda
Sometimes, good people come up with a bad idea Greg Bean If you look out your window right now, chances are you’ll see pigs flying. I figure that in a week when I end up agreeing with embattled Keyport Mayor John Merla, anything is possible. Last week, I wrote about a bad idea – an…
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Legal immigrant supports proposals like Keyport’s
I live in California, a state that’s devastated by illegal immigration. It costs my state $10.5 billion a year to educate, medicate and incarcerate illegal aliens. California citizens have begun to take their cities back from the invaders from south of our border one city at a time. For openers, we have started with the…
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Think about reform, not segregation
We presently live in Hazlet, but we lived in Keyport for many years. Riding our car to visit family at Keyport, in the 40-less-degree weather, we can’t help but think of the immigrants’ plight as we see them station looking for work, the risks and dreams haunting them, their drive and will to reach the…
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Testing designed for well-being of Middletown students
As acting superintendent of the Middletown Township Public School District, I would like to have the opportunity to respond to the letter from Mina Hickey that appeared Oct. 11 (“Parent doesn’t have faith in Middletown’s drug-testing plan”). The first question posed by Ms. Hickey concerned the survey that was administered to Middletown students in grades…
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Sodon must choose role: committeeman or vendor
I am extremely concerned to hear about the recent revelation that the Middletown Republican candidate for Township Committee, Tim Sodon, is also a township vendor. Mr. Sodon has collected more than $92,000 from the township during the past year. This is a conflict of interest and could be interpreted as unethical. If elected, Mr. Sodon…
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McMorrow, Gibadlo, Bova-Scarano will make difference
Election Day is Nov. 7. Voters in Monmouth County have the chance to decide whether they want business as usual or a change for the better. A one-party system of government does not work for all the people. Our founding fathers – in forming a government – made sure of this with checks and balances.…
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Writer’s theories on Iraq War are absurd
Jim Tobias is correct in citing Sen. Pat Moynihan’s comment about people with opinions are not entitled to their own set of facts (“GOP deserves rejection by voters,” letters, Oct. 11). Here is another phrase that Mr. Tobias might consider. Alexander Pope once wrote, “A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.” Mr. Tobias…
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Coda
Bad ideas often take on a life of their own Greg Bean Sometimes, a bad idea infects a segment of society and travels through it like an epidemic of Hong Kong flu. Take the current hysteria about trans fats, for example. One politician, somewhere, gets the idea that he can get some exposure proposing legislation…
