Category: News Transcript Opinion

  • Real tax reform requires courage, conviction

    Real property tax reform can only be achieved when other forms of income fund school taxes, such as the state sales tax. By raising the sales tax to 7 percent, the extra 1 percent can be used to fund our schools. We also have revenue from the lottery — state-operated racetracks such as Monmouth Park…

  • Rental charge for books at county library unacceptable

    While visiting the Monmouth County Library Headquarters [recently] in Manalapan, I was appalled to see that best sellers are now prominently displayed on a separate table and available on a daily rental basis only. We already pay a library tax as part of our ever-soaring real estate tax bills. I do not want to rent…

  • Catherine Mary Billings

    Mrs. Billings, age 90, of Long Branch, died Sept. 13 at St. Barnabas Hospice and Palliative Care Center, Long Branch. Born in New York, she resided in Howell prior to moving to Long Branch 11 years ago. She was a cafeteria worker at Howell Township Public School System, retiring in 1976. She was predeceased by…

  • Obituaries

    Dorothy A. Durland Gardner Mrs. Gardner, 80, of Hazlet, died Sept. 11 at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she had resided in Long Island, N.Y., before moving to Hazlet four years ago. Mrs. Gardner was a homemaker. She was a communicant of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Keyport. She was predeceased by…

  • More work needed on school funding issue

    School board members and administrators in the Garden State may face a difficult challenge when they start to prepare their budgets for the 2005-06 school year. In June, the state Legislature and Gov. James E. McGreevey imposed strict new caps on school spending increases. There are also new limits on how much surplus (savings) a…

  • Monmouth County resident explains why he will vote Republican

    Recently, I received a pamphlet from the three Democratic candidates for county elective office. The theme of their pamphlet is “Monmouth County needs leaders we can trust with our money and our future.” As a student of finance at the Wharton School of Business, I couldn’t agree more. However, I don’t think these three Democrats…

  • McGreevey broke promise to remove tolls

    Gov. James McGreevey is bragging widely about his supposed accomplishment of taking tolls down on the Garden State Parkway. Not true! Follow-up on this story discloses that the governor is re-moving some booths at the Asbury Park and Raritan toll plazas and converting the re-maining booths to one-way tolls at 70 cents each. Citizens Against…

  • Swim club seeking township’s support for new pool

    I am a Marlboro resident for over 23 years, a Marlboro Swim Club member for over 20 years and a Marlboro Swim Division board member for over seven years. I was under the impression that the need for a new 25-meter pool and day camp pavilion at the facility was acknowledged and supported by Mayor…