Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Global-warming legislation will mean new tax

    This letter is in response to Eddie Konczal’s letter to the editor, “Congress: Follow N.J.’s Global-Warming Lead” (Sentinel, July 26), praising the New Jersey Legislature for passing the Global Warming Response Act. He also uses the newly revised term for global warming, which is global climate change. I’m sure the new term global climate change…

  • Prescription and over-the-counter drugs can be just as dangerous as illegal drugs

    It has been three-and-a-half years since my son, Jason, died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs that he was abusing. He was 19 years old and in college studying to be a pharmacist. If that isn’t ironic enough, as his mother, I had what I believed to be a safety net – I work…

  • Congress should support U.S. companies

    The U.S. has been blessed by God with many natural resources including much oil and natural gas. However, we are one of the few countries in the world that choose not to develop them. Years ago, when the Republicans controlled Congress, there were votes to allow drilling in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), an area…

  • Congress: Follow N.J.’s global-warming lead

    I would like to congratulate New Jersey’s Legislature for passing the Global Warming Response Act, which will help reduce our state’s greenhouse gas emissions. For too long, the federal government has failed to take meaningful action on the global-warming crisis. As a result, it has been left to individual states to address the problem. I…

  • These days many soldiers just want the war to end

    Greg Bean Coda Greg BeanCoda As I write this today, my middle son is completing training at Fort Dix in preparation for deployment to Iraq next month. This will be his second tour of duty in that country. He joined the Army on Sept. 5, 2001, six days before terrorists attacked the World Trade Center…

  • Snowhill area not ‘barren’; needs officials’ best efforts

    Regarding your article titled “Changes on Horizon for Snowhill Street?” that appeared in the July 19 issue of the Sentinel, many important points were not included. I work for a business in the area to which the article is referring, and it has been operating there for 40 years. One statement made by a Spotswood…

  • School board member is target of vandalism

    Believes she’s a victim of retaliation for her opinions on issues BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer BY BRIAN DONAHUEStaff Writer A swastika is seen among the squirtings from a mustard container on a minivan owned by Monroe Board of Education member Rita Ostrager. MONROE – It started with paintballs shot at her house, and has…

  • Obituaries

    Greater Media Newspapers prints obituaries as a free community service, at no charge to the families of the deceased or to the funeral homes that provide the information. Jennifer “Cheers” Chirico Ms. Chirico, 33, of Milltown, died July 6, 2007, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. She was a front-end manager for Rickel…

  • Governor not working for the people of N.J.

    By all reports New Jersey is in serious financial distress. Only two states are said to be operating at deficits, and New Jersey did not suffer the ravages of Katrina. We have a $78 billion unfunded liability for employee and retiree health-care costs and a $26 billion unfunded liability for pension costs. (That’s billion with…