Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion
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Resident considers councilman’s integrity of high order
I was a bit taken back when I read the letter by Anthony Russomanno questioning Councilman Charles Tomaro’s integrity. Tomaro is one of the hardest-working elected officials I have known. Charlie has been in the forefront for years, working on behalf of Edison Township in acquiring open space and being very successful. These hundreds of…
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Teacher pensions and local property taxes are mutually exclusive
While teachers are employed locally, they are licensed by and are technically employees of the state of New Jersey. Teachers pay into the fund and the local board of education forwards that money every three months to the fund. The state is supposed to contribute a proportional amount into the fund; the teachers’ pensions cost…
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Thanksgiving spirit is to celebrate differences
It looks like these letters to the editor from the Sentinel are turning into a personal forum as well as becoming quite defensive. It’s rather obvious that everyone perceives things differently, and of course people’s perceptions are their own reality. I’ve read and reread the article that Veena and I submitted to the Sentinel, as…
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Mayor Choi deserves chance to make much-needed changes
Richard Nixon ran a campaign of inference. If he could at least infer wrongdoing on the part of his opponent, then the end would justify the means. In Edison, there has been a barrage of inference. We might just as well publish a headlined tabloid in town. Most people stay home from council meetings because…
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Township on right track with open space
It was a delight to read about Mayor Choi and the council’s work to preserve 22 acres of open space. From what I read and hear about locally, some developers aren’t too pleased with Mayor Choi administration’s firm policy to fundamentally reshape how planning and redevelopment takes place in our community. Under the mayor’s leadership,…
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Letters
Thank you, for your recent story that focused on the new “Health Club Sales Tax” [Local YMCAs may benefit from legislation, Nov. 15] and the attempt by the Department of Treasury to apply it to the YMCA and to our work at Woodbridge Community Center. In the interest of clarity, I would want to clarify…
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South Asians do their fair share in the community
This is in response to Wilma Levine’s and Beth Klee’s letters in the Oct. 25 and Nov. 15 issues, respectively, of the Sentinel. The accusations in the letters about the celebration of Diwali at the Edison schools were so hurtful that our initial thought was to stop our volunteering work at the schools and in…
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Mayor should reflect on budget debacle
‘And so this is Christmas and what have you done? Another year over and a new one just begun.” So goes a quote from a John Lennon song. Seems like Edison Mayor Jun Choi and his all-Democratic council should be asking themselves that question right about now. Here we are at the dawn of a…
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Coda
Tax reform: they Greg Bean I wish somebody would explain some elements of this plan to reform property taxes in New Jersey, because there are parts of it I’m apparently too dumb to grasp. For example, one of the proposals to reduce property tax is to do away with the homeowner rebates most of us…
