Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion
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Board of Ed. sends bond ref. to state for review
State will review plans and award aid for construction projects BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON — The Board of Education recently voted to ask the state to review a proposed $80 million bond referendum and a separate proposal to improve the district’s sports fields. “We voted to send drawings down…
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Advocate helps keep NJ gov’t open to the public
Slowly but surely, John Paff is making New Jersey government more open and accessible to the public. Paff has spent the past couple of years peeking into the workings of local government agencies, which he often chooses at random, to make sure things are on the up and up when it comes to open public…
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, December 20, 2006 SCOTT PILLING staff Above: Morgan Brown and Jeffrey Young of Herbert Hoover Middle School perform at a concert for classmates on Dec. 13. Right: members of the Middle School choir also performed at the concert.
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MIGUEL JUAREZ staff
Top: The Metuchen High School Robotics team follows the moves of their “Clearing Hazardous Waste” robot during the “Engineers Without Borders RoboRocks” high school competition at Middlesex County College in Edison on Monday. Bottom: Sean Slatery [l-r], Matt Hanley and Dan Brown of the Metuchen team react as their robot misses a step. The Metuchen…
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Your Turn
Legislature misrepresents average taxpayer Bill Vick Guest Column Bill VickGuest Column I just finished reading Greg Bean’s “Coda” column in the Dec. 13 Sentinel (excellent, by the way), and I am perplexed. The source of this confusion is the realization that I have become a second-class citizen. When did I lose my representation in the…
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Greg Bean
Coda If they won’t do it, we’ll have to do it ourselves If there’s one thing we can almost all agree on this week, it’s that the BIG DEAL effort at property tax reform this year is as dead as Chester Watson’s mule. And as everyone who saw it hit by lightning — three times…
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Diwali, like Christmas, is a religious holiday
As I have come to expect anything from people, I was not surprised to see a Dec. 13 letter to the editor saying “The Diwali programs in the Edison schools were not religious observances.” As Diwali is a Hindu festival it is certainly a religious observance, just as Hanukkah and Christmas. We can only speculate…
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Lawmakers renege on property tax reform by Jan. 1
After a promising start by the state Legislature, I am disillusioned with recent developments in Trenton. The Legislature made some very forthcoming suggestions toward meaningful reform. This start has now been gutted by the very governor who encouraged the Legislature to be bold and forthcoming. The governor’s promise of meaningful reform by year’s end is…
