Category: Sentinel-EBS Opinion
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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.…
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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…
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Credit card offers: Pay now and keep on paying
Greg Bean Coda By today’s standards, my grandmother had some pretty strange ideas about money. For one thing, as a survivor of the stock market crash and bank failures of the Great Depression, she refused to keep her money in a bank during a Republican presidential administration. She blamed the Republicans for everything bad that…
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Obituaries
Albert P. St. George Mr. St. George, 78, of East Brunswick, died April 10 at home. Prior to his retirement many years ago, he was a certified orthodist in Brooklyn, N.Y. His wife, Miriam, died in 1998. Surviving are two sons, Paul St. George of Sierra Vista, Ariz., and Peter St. George of East Brunswick;…
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N.J. collects more in tolls than other states
Raymond Neveil’s letter to the editor (“End Parkway Tolls Before More Millions Are Spent Needlessly,” Sentinel, March 31) is right on target. The elimination of tolls from the Garden State Parkway had become a campaign issue when James McGreevey ran against Bret Schundler in 2001. Schundler had stated that he would eliminate the tolls if…
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High praise for Motor Vehicle Comm. office
I have read many stories, good and bad, about the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC), formerly the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV), in New Jersey. I recently paid a visit to the Matawan agency to renew my driver’s license, and I left there very happy. From the time I entered the door, I was…
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Think about students, teachers in voting on school budget
I am writing in response to the letter to the editor (“Quality of Teachers Is Not Measured by Their Salaries,” Sentinel, March 17) submitted by Carol Kuhn, a teacher in the Spotswood school district As a Spotswood parent, I would like to thank Mrs. Kuhn for her commitment to the teaching profession as well as…
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‘Yes’ vote on budget will ensure students’ success
I am a concerned parent of two children in the Monroe Township school district. Our district continues to explode, with new students entering our schools constantly. As a parent and citizen, I want to bring awareness to the upcoming 2005-06 school budget vote that will occur on April 19. Many residents do not realize that…
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Rail service would be solution to overcrowded roads
Thank you for your great editorial concerning the restoration of passenger rail service in our area (“New Study Likely the Final Word on Train Plan,” Sentinel, March 31). Your comments about it making sense, and that’s why it probably won’t happen, really speak to the sad state of affairs in New Jersey. I fully support…
