Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • New act strips detainees of fundamental rights

    Citizens who care anything for the law should be very concerned with the passage last month made possible by the Bush Administration’s Republican Congressional allies of the Military Commissions Act (MCA), giving the president the authority to try enemy combatants in Guantanamo. As legal experts have pointed out, the MCA is grossly deficient, as it…

  • Obituaries

    Katerina Moncek Katerina Moncek, 93, of Belford, died on Oct. 28, 2006, at Care One in Middletown. She had lived in Belford for 12 years. She lived in the Iselin section of Woodbridge for many years before moving to Belford. She was born Oct. 29, 1912 in Czechoslovakia. She is survived by her daughter Janet…

  • Resident praises Edison’s diversity, calls for tolerance

    In her letter of Oct. 25, Wilma Levine accused the South Asians of Edison of expecting special treatment and not believing that the law applies to them. I find this characterization extremely unfair. I believe the problem is that some Asian people believe that they are not being treated like everyone else and are being…

  • Cops can’t tell the real guns from the ‘replicas’

    Greg Bean Coda Instead of messing around with things like keeping trans fats away from our french fries, I have a suggestion for our local representatives in the state Assembly that might save some young lives now. Last week, cops in Holmdel caught a group of local boys with a replica handgun they planned to…

  • Hunger initiative will feed more New Jerseyans

    Legend has it that New Jersey got its nickname of the “Garden State” while being compared to a double-ended cornucopia, with its agricultural products flowing to New York in the north and Philadelphia in the south. So it would seem that New Jersey, where the food complex is now an $82 billion-a-year business, should be…

  • Winifred L. Berry Baumann

    Mrs. Baumann, 73, of Spotswood, died Oct. 21, 2006, in Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick. Her husband, Vernon, died in 2000. Surviving are a daughter, Sharon Surowiec of Howell; a son, Kevin of South Amboy; a brother, Kenny Berry of Old Bridge; two sisters, Karen Sciarappo of Freehold and Ellie McGill of Old…

  • Move beyond stereotypes, build a better Edison

    This is in response to Wilma Levine’s letter in the Oct. 25 Edison/ Metuchen Sentinel My first response as a South Asian and an Edison resident is sadness that some of the points in her letter are valid. Yes, many South Asians do not show up to volunteer at school events, or coach soccer. I…

  • William A. Blackburn

    Mr. Blackburn, 90, of Matawan, died Oct. 24, 2006, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. He was born in Covington, Ky. He was employed at American Airlines for 33 years, retiring in 1979 as a reservations manager. Following retirement, he was a crossing guard at Raritan Valley School, Hazlet, and St. Benedict’s School, Holmdel. Mr. Blackburn…

  • An informed voter makes the best decision at polls

    Greg Bean Coda As we count down to the elections, I’ve been taking calls from local politicians and their handlers wondering if they’ll get our endorsement before voters go to the polls. I always tell them no. Fact is, we stopped making editorial endorsements of candidates several years ago for a variety of reasons. In…