Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion

  • Regressive property tax should not continue to fund education

    Frank J. Coury Guest Column It’s about time our elected officials in the state Senate and Assembly look around at their constituents and recognize that many of them are struggling to pay their bills. Many taxpayers have become ill, some have been laid off from their jobs, and many more are living on fixed incomes.…

  • Obituaries

    James Robert Hetherington Mr. Hetherington, 86, of East Brunswick, formerly of Edison, died April 11 at home. Surviving are his wife, Virginia Ellen Hetherington; a son, James Joseph Hetherington of North Carolina; two daughters, Barbara Jean Pitzner of Jackson and Tracey Ellen Outcalt of the Franklin Park section of Franklin; five grandchildren; and two step-granddaughters.…

  • Increase sales tax, and apply it to education

    I am responding to your editorial titled “Legislators Must Act on School Funding” (Sentinel, April 14). I find it ridiculous that we keep electing politicians who for some strange reason aren’t interested in what affects their constituents. I have read many articles, gone to protests in Trenton, and heard many different runarounds on the subject.…

  • Ticketed driver should accept consequences for actions

    This letter is in response to Jo Marchisotto of East Brunswick, whose letter to the editor, “Resident Pays High Price for Overdue Sticker” appeared in the March 31 issue of the Sentinel. Ms. Marchisotto wrote: “Warning: Check the decal on your windshield. It may be time for your car to be inspected.” She should have…

  • Sides should come together in Milltown

    If there is one thing that people on both sides of the Ford Avenue redevelopment debate seem to agree on, it’s that community input and involvement is a crucial element to the success of a project as important as this one. Where they differ, however, is how much involvement has been welcomed into this effort.…

  • Site condemnation is win for borough, taxpayers, county

    Finally, score one for the taxpayers.The recent decision by Middlesex County Assignment Judge Robert Longi to allow the borough of Sayreville to proceed with the condemnation of the 400-plus-acre National Lead site is a victory for the borough, for the county and for the taxpayers. For too many years, that chemically fouled but potentially very…

  • Support needed to preserve wildlife rehabilitators

    New Jersey’s wildlife is in big trouble.Until recently, many volunteers cared for distressed and disabled wildlife. Townships, veterinarians and homeowners had relied on wildlife rehabilitators to deal with animals that typically an official, paid for by the taxpayers, would be called upon to remove. Wildlife rehabilitators numbered more than 100 to cover the entire state.…

  • Legislators must act on school funding

    The frustration can be heard in the voices of local school board members and administrators who believe state legislators are pulling in the reins — to the detriment of students — on the amount of money they are permitted to spend on education each year. The frustration can most definitely be heard in the voices…