Category: Independent Opinion
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Coverage appreciated
Exit 117 would like to thank you for the wonderful article you ran about our quartet in the Sept. 6 issue. Inadvertently, our contact information was omitted from the article, and we’d like to let your readers know that Exit 117 can be contacted at (732) 264-2552. As avid readers of your paper, we find…
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Fink ‘more qualified’ for Township Committee seat
For some time I have wanted to write regarding the upcoming election for Holmdel Township Committee and my impression of the candidates, Larry Fink and Jun-Min Liu. I have read all the articles about each candidate and the various members of the Township Committee in order to compare notes on each individual and their positions.…
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Holmdel race about differences, says Liu supporter
The election this year in Holmdel is about differences. It is the difference between a balanced, fiscally responsible approach espoused by your Republican candidate Dr. Jun-Min Liu versus the extremely liberal, tax-and-spend Democrat. Dr. Liu speaks positively and proactively to not just one but all of the issues that are important to us in Holmdel,…
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School ‘pickup’ congestion needs to be addressed
The good ol’ days were filled with the roar of parking yellow buses and parents waving their relieved good-byes. Those same 40 or more children who once upon a time rode one bus now arrive in 40 separate vehicles. Empathy should certainly lend itself to residents near school zones. Every day, they are faced with…
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GPU Energy’s power line plans a dangerous proposal
I read with the utmost interest the articles in the Sept. 13 issue of the Independent regarding GPU Energy’s proposal to install 69K-volt power lines on 60-foot poles from Matawan through Hazlet, Holmdel and into Middletown. GPU Energy must find a better, safer way in which to provide electrical service to our community. At the…
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Couple thankful for parkway good Samaritan
Couple thankful for parkway good Samaritan I am writing this letter of thanks to the young man who stopped on the Garden State Parkway Tuesday, Aug. 29, to help my husband and I fix a tire blowout we had. Knowing my husband recently lost his leg, I knew we were stuck. With no cell…
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Former commander calls firearms training critical aspect of policing
Former commander calls firearms training critical aspect of policing RRegarding the Sept. 7 article about the Middletown pistol range, I write these comments in the context of being a former police commander (New York Police Department), a current teacher and trainer of police personnel and criminal justice students (John Jay College), and a Middletown…
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A crisis pregnancy requires love, plus care and acceptance
A crisis pregnancy requires love, plus care and acceptance IIt’s hard for me to comprehend or accept that the N.J. Supreme Court ruled parental notification of a minor daughter’s surgical abortion as unconstitutional. How is it that N.J. Supreme Court judges think that a surgical procedure, performed in the blind, requiring a prescription drug…
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Make sure you exercise your right and your privilege to vote
Make sure you exercise your right and your privilege to vote IIt isn’t the right to vote that keeps government responsive to those whom it governs, rather, it’s those who vote who accomplish this miracle of government. Voting is more than just a right of citizenship for American citizens. It’s their duty, their responsibility,…
