Category: opinion/hillsborough_beacon

   As many residents of Hillsborough are still unaware, the Board of Education has recently opened debate on a plan to randomly drug test high school students participating in sports and extra-curricular activities and those applying for parking passes.    This policy is yet another illustration of the continuing breakdown of trust between the school administration and…

   Last week, Jim Quirico was correct. Hillsborough students, parents and residents are too unaware of the possible policy regarding random drug testing in the Hillsborough Township School District.    The Board of Education’s Jan. 3 meeting exemplified this point when only five members of the community spoke, two of which were from the Hunterdon Central School…

Amadeo D’Adamo Jr., Renate Drive    A recent letter challenged my calculations of the cost of teaching per student per hour as a way of showing salaries of teachers are not out of line.    The writer negated this calculation by making a comparison with the cost of gasoline per mile traveled. The cost of human services…

James Gibbons Jr., Hillsborough    Recently, Gov. Jon Corzine decided to go to every county in the state and have town hall meetings to unveil his to supposedly help New Jersey’s economy.    The state is in so much debt; so many people agree, including the governor, that drastic changes need to be done to get rid…

Jim Quirico, Amwell Road    A new and somewhat trouble matter is starting to become the talk of the town among students, teachers and the township as a whole.    Recently, the residents of Hillsborough have been made aware of a plan to randomly test students of the Hillsborough High School. Athletes, students involved in clubs and…

   Over the years, the complexion of the New Jersey Legislature has occasionally undergone some sudden and dramatic changes.    In 1967, for example, after the Supreme Court’s historic “one-man, one-vote” ruling expanded the state Senate from 21 to 40 members and the Assembly from 60 to 80, Republicans won 31 seats in the upper house and…

Charles Sutter Hillsborough    I am writing to correct the statements that Mr. Ploskonka made in his “Time to address the nation’s debt.”    Mr. Ploskonka’s theme is sadly the false populist theme that we hear on our TV during election time. The message is of slogans not substance.    ”Tax the rich,” “redistribute the wealth”: These are…

Glenn van Lier Brookside Lane    Some consolation can be gained from digesting the voter tallies from last November’s election results.    Our fellow citizens here in Hillsborough are slowly realizing that our elected officials in the form of Republican Committeemen Anthony Ferrera, Carl Suraci and Robert Wagner, simply cannot be trusted.    This distrust carries up through…

MOST THINGS CONSIDERED Minx McCloud Special Writer    Ah, to make New Year’s resolutions or not to …    I’ve always thought that New Year’s resolutions are basically useless. We should strive to be our best all year round, I told some of my friends at a party one year, but my companions just snickered and threw…