Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Jago Elementary collects $5K in pennies for charity

    Money to go to Hillsborough girl diagnosed with leukemia BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE – The 433 students at the Matthew Jago Elementary School No. 28 dug deep into their hearts and pockets for the past three weeks to help children with leukemia as part of the nationwide Pennies for…

  • Viewers should boycott Olympics in China

    Recently a Metuchen High School student asked me to support him in a Darfur awareness program. I agreed but first wanted to know what he hew about Darfur. He told me it was a place in Africa where lots of people have been attacked, creating many refugees and resulting in many people killed. I responded…

  • Holocaust survivors deserve appreciation for strength after tragedy

    As a child of Holocaust survivors, I marvel at the bravery of survivors who dedicated their lives to creating a new dynamic generation of Jews. The purpose of this article was to inform the public about the Nazi Archival Records opened after 50 years. I do not know what happened to my family; only my…

  • Voting restrictions were un-democratic

    I took part in the March 21 partisan convention of the 19th Legislative District to vote for candidates for the N.J. Legislature in the upcoming June primary election. Before that convention met, an official-looking “done-deal” slate announcement of the two incumbent Assembly candidates was submitted to a newspaper. Ignored was the fact that a third…

  • Pizzi is a member of the Edison Old Guard

    I am astonished at the recent letter praising Councilman Sal Pizzi. For me, a concerned citizen, Pizzi represents what is wrong with Edison. He is cut from the old school mold where only the insiders know what is going on in town and where only the insiders decide what will go on. This concerned citizen…

  • Student survey indicates programs are working

    Head of Municipal Alliance hopeful despite increases in some areas BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON – Members of the Edison Board of Education were briefed on the results of an Adolescent Risk Behavior Survey conducted by the Edison Municipal Alliance offering data on student suicide and depression rates, drug abuse,…

  • Using a bazooka to kill a bug

    For most people, the idea of spraying pesticides from airplanes flying over residential neighborhoods simply doesn’t seem like a good idea. History is littered with examples of supposedly safe chemicals that turned out to be anything but safe, so why not err on the side of caution? The state recently considered the use of aerial…

  • Inhalant use is a silent epidemic

    If you think huffing is something just the Three Little Pigs had to watch out for, the wolf may come knocking at your door. Huffing, bagging and sniffing are terms for inhalant use – a cheap, legal and easy way that young people get high. Inhalant use has become a silent epidemic. Why? Parents are…

  • Global Warming opponents kill messenger

    A common tactic used by those in denial about the global warming crisis is to “shoot the messenger.” They can’t win an argument based on the facts or science, so they attempt to cast doubt on the validity of those who are telling them what they don’t want to hear. Global warming deniers argue that…