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Mayor Kleinberg has helped Marlboro move forward
The residents of Marlboro elected Mayor Robert Kleinberg to clean up our town after years of corruption. So it doesn’t surprise me that defenders of the status quo attack him for succeeding at ridding Marlboro of those who took advantage of the public trust for their own benefit. Jerry Tomaselli spews more of the same…
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Resident questions Marlboro’s drop in magazine rating
With the forthcoming election in Marlboro shortly zooming forth, it seems appropriate to seek and find potential secret messages inadvertently energized by Money magazine’s “best places to live.” The listing included Marlboro. At the magazine’s last calculation in 2004, Marlboro was heralded as No. 14 and currently, the plunge to 33rd perhaps suggests further investigation…
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You are what you drive
AMY ROSEN Around Town Anyone who has ever had a minivan knows that it does not exactly rank as the coolest of vehicles. I mean you’re not going to get “oohs” and “aahs” and people staring at your car as you drive down the road. People aren’t going to pull up next to you and…
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Personal business is not fodder for public consumption
‘Tis the season … no, it’s not Christmas or Hanukkah; it’s election time, also known as “let’s try and discredit the candidates that have the most knowledge and experience, that will do the best job for our community.” Just when you think you’ve seen it all with smear campaigns and mud slinging, people (and I…
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When it comes to new law, less is almost always more
GREG BEAN Coda In “Civil Disobedience,” his great work on the duty of all men to rebel against unjust governments, American philosopher and noted recluse Henry David Thoreau said, “I heartily accept the motto – That government is best which governs least.” It was his notion that we are not served well by lawmakers who…
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Actions of officials are bringing embarrassment to town
Ihave to say that with what is going on in this town recently, I am somewhat embarrassed to say I live here. We need leaders now more than ever and what we have now is the bickering and politicking that we have all detested, that is, except for the bloggers on the NJ.com site. We…
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This freshman mom has an achy-breaky heart
LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? We took our oldest son to college last Thursday, and I can’t help but wonder if other mothers handle it as poorly as I did. Although I had been cautioned that it would be tough, I didn’t heed the warnings. I just told myself that his leaving home would…
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Legislative futility is costing us all
It is now the time of year when mailboxes start getting stuffed with slick, glossy campaign fliers trumpeting the achievements of candidates for office. “As a member of your Legislature, I fought to end corruption,” you might read, or “I worked to get guns off the streets.” In political spin, there’s always some kernel of…
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There is no one smiling on this candid camera
MARK ROSMAN In the News What were officials in Freehold Township thinking when they trained a video camera on the home of a rabbi in order to count the number of people going into his house to pray on the Jewish Sabbath? I’m thinking they weren’t thinking. If not for the fact that the rabbi’s…
