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  • Do not project your values onto other people

    This letter is in response to Timothy L. Eshelman’s recent letter to the editor about Greater Media Newspapers columnist Greg Bean having his facts and logic wrong about Gov. Chris Christie being on the wrong side of marijuana legalization and the same sex marriage issue. Sorry to say, but Timothy, you have your facts wrong…

  • Horseracing should be state’s winning ticket

    Why do Gov. Chris Christie and state Senate President Steve Sweeney continue to block all efforts to put slot machines and table games in at the Meadowlands (racetrack) when Jeff Gural, the operator of the Meadowlands, has said he would pay a 55 percent gaming tax that would generate hundred of millions of dollars? Atlantic…

  • on campus 

    Gillian Rosendale, daughter of Marcy and Thomas Rosendale of Marlboro, has been named to the dean’s list for the spring semester at the University of Maryland, Smith Business School, College Park, Md., where she is majoring in accounting. She is a 2008 graduate of Marlboro High School. Amanda Schissel, daughter of Hope and Eric Schissel…

  • Proceed with caution on tree replacement

    If we learned anything from a recent supercell storm, it was that our beautiful trees can become an expensive and dangerous problem in such drastic weather. We all know that trees are beneficial. They cool us, convert CO2 into oxygen, stabilize soil, reduce storm runoff, wind speeds and air conditioning costs, prevent erosion, intercept air…

  • Companies, unions should re-educate workers

    When I attended high school in Brooklyn, we were taught that New York’s main industry was textiles. Then, in the 1950s and 1960s, New York companies began “outsourcing” textile production and related industries to southern states like South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi because the cheap labor in those “poor” states compensated for labor and shipping…

  • Do not exploit a national tragedy for political reasons

    There are many different ways to express our grief at a national tragedy such as the massacre in Colorado. Some might send notes of condolence or offer up prayers for the speedy recovery of the victims. Others, such as the cartoonist for Greater Media Newspapers, express their “anguish and empathy” by creating an editorial cartoon…

  • Donald C. Finn

    Mr. Finn, 78, of Manalapan, died Aug. 3, 2012, at home. Mr. Finn had a long and diversified career and served as an executive vice president of Equitable Life; a CFO of Equicor; a research scientist for the Department of Health in New Jersey; a college professor; and a scoutmaster. He was predeceased by two…

  • Sharon Anne Gibson

    Mrs. Gibson, 56, of Freehold, died at home July 29, 2012, from stomach cancer. Born in Newark, she was raised in Matawan and started her family in Keyport before moving to Freehold in 1992. She attended grammar school at St. Joseph’s in Keyport, graduated high school from Mater Dei in Middletown in 1974, and received…