Category: opinion/hopewell_valley_news

THE STATE WE’RE IN By Michele Byers    For many Garden State residents, it looks as though “New Jersey and you” are no longer perfect together. A recent report by Rutgers University uncovers an alarming exodus of residents from this state we’re in.    Titled “Where Have All the Dollars Gone? An Analysis of New Jersey Migration…

    I have a question for Weezie Huntington, who wrote the odd “Act of Intolerance” letter published Dec. 27.    Firstly, I do not believe that Rush Holt is in anyway intolerant.    Did you actually read the text of the two congressional resolutions? Probably not, because you cited them incorrectly as bills. They are House Resolutions:…

EDITORIAL By Ruth Luse, Managing Editor    While state legislators and officials of the state’s school districts study Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposed funding formula for 2008-2009 school budgets, a few Hopewell Valley residents continue to lament the change made for the 2007-2008 school budget year in the primary strings program.    Only days after local voters had…

    I appreciate the opportunity to address the concerns of Weezie Huntington and others about my vote on the “Christmas Resolution.”    One of the reasons the United States of America has remained for more than two centuries a model to the world is the Constitutional promise of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law…

REPORTER’S NOTEBO0K By John Tredrea, Staff Writer    Tuesday marked the end of six years on the Pennington Borough Council for David Garber. This is the time to say that, in the view of many people including myself, he did an exemplary job, an unusually fine job, as a member of his local government.    Mr. Garber…

    Elm Ridge Park was, once again, among the top performing neighborhoods participating in the Womanspace Communities of Light event. Our collections, topping $2,250, were an interesting result. Our total number of participants dropped slightly (probably due to our late start selling luminaries), but the average donation per household participating was more generous than in…

    On Dec. 27, I was involved in a car accident on Route 31, just south of the Pennington Circle, when a car traveling in the southbound lane drove across the centerline into the northbound lane in which I was driving.    During the moments of terror that immediately followed the impact, the outpouring of kindness…

    I, too, have a question for Rush Holt. My question is: Can you explain your votes? Two bills have recently passed in the House of Representatives: HR 635 and HR 847. It is sad that these bills even need to be considered, but Rep. Holt’s votes should make us all even sadder.    Only weeks…

    I sat back and waited, hoping Karen McCarville would realize she misspoke in her recent letter to the editor — “Valley Values Education?” — but absent any correction or clarification I am left with the impression she meant what she said.    After cataloging many of the things our teachers do on an unpaid or…