Category: Independent Opinion
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Mat-Ab H.S. principal steps down, is replaced
BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer ABERDEEN — As the result of a resignation, the Matawan-Aberdeen Board of Education spent over an hour in an executive session meeting before voting to make some administrative changes in the districts schools at the July 18 meeting. High School Principal Christine Robbins handed in a…
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Board names middle school assistant principal
BY MICHELLE ROSENBERG Staff Writer BY MICHELLE ROSENBERGStaff Writer HOLMDEL — The Board of Education appointed a new assistant principal to the William R. Satz Middle School at its July 20 meeting. Shana Nussbaum is set to take over the position on Aug. 1, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Karlheinz Haas said. “We’re very…
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States rushing to curb eminent domain abuse
Coda Greg Bean Perhaps no U.S. Supreme Court ruling in recent memory — outside Roe v. Wade or the one that gave George W. Bush his first presidency — has generated the national anger of the court’s recent decision on eminent domain. The 5-4 ruling said that the city fathers in New London, Conn., had…
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Letters
Rent regulation is ‘one and only algorithm that works’ Save for Hawaii, New Jersey has the highest average rents in the country. High market-rate rents combined with an acute housing shortage operate to render the costs of housing unaffordable to many middle-income residents, whether now living in or contemplating a job-related move to New Jersey.…
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Letters
Middletown police, fire depts. praised for (Copy of a letter to Middletown Mayor Thomas Hall) I would like to bring to your attention the truly outstanding job that was performed by your police and fire departments June 19. My family was celebrating Father’s Day with a cookout at my home on Martel Court. At approximately,…
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Credit candidates for testing FACE program
Four local Assembly candidates are about to embark on a campaign finance reform experiment that could provide a blueprint for cleaner politics in the future or turn out as a colossal bust. Leaders from the state’s Democrat and Republican parties designated the 13th District one of two to pilot the Fair and Clean Elections Pilot…
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Time off not such a bad idea for students
Coda Greg Bean If I hadn’t flunked out of college, I wouldn’t have met Buckskin Bader. Like any number of high school graduates, I rushed into college the year after finishing high school, thinking I knew what I wanted to become — in my case, a doctor. Three things convinced me I wasn’t cut out…
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A perfect place for Aunt Patti’s gifts
Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch I love my sister, Patti, dearly. Growing up, she and I had more fun than a barrel of drunk monkeys. Together we cut teeth, ruined Barbie’s hair-do and maxed out our pretend credit cards at one imaginary white sale after another. She’s still quite the bargain shopper today and…
