Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • Bankruptcy still an option for those with crushing debt

    Creditors and collection agencies are telling consumers that they no longer have bankruptcy as an option for dealing with their crushing debts. This is dead wrong! Nationally, bankruptcy filings are down at least 60 percent over levels of a year ago. This is a huge, unprecedented drop in filings. Divorces, job losses, business failures, unanticipated…

  • Council president defends decision not to debate

    In response to your recent article and editorial about the Metuchen Democratic candidates declining to debate the Republican candidates, I feel it important to bring to your readers’ attention something which was omitted from both pieces. In their so-called platform, the Republican candidates have not articulated any position regarding any specific issue concerning Metuchen politics.…

  • Math Night

    JEFF GRANIT staff Last Wednesday, Christopher Smith, 6, with the help of his mother, Pam, counts out patterns along with Christopher Tirpak and his son, Nicholas, 6, as part of Math Night at James Monroe School in Edison.

  • You can’t make this up

    Metuchen Democratic Party Chairwoman Beverly Passantino has got to be kidding. Ditto for incumbent Democratic Councilmen Richard Dyas and Richard Weber. The three recently proclaimed that they “respectfully” declined to participate in a debate with Steven Shapiro and Chris Russomanno, the two Republicans who are challenging them for the two open seats on the Borough…

  • Your Turn

    PBA prez left committee in best interest of town I am compelled to respond to your editorial published in the Oct. 11 issue titled “Time to step down.” The purpose for this reply is not to provoke further controversy nor to defend my character. I simply want to correct and clarify some of the more…

  • Coda

    Sometimes, good people come up with a bad idea Greg Bean If you look out your window right now, chances are you’ll see pigs flying. I figure that in a week when I end up agreeing with embattled Keyport Mayor John Merla, anything is possible. Last week, I wrote about a bad idea – an…

  • Bush is right to stay the course in Iraq

    Americans never learn from history. Today the same liberals who brought about the Berlin Wall, a divided Europe, the current messes in Korea and Vietnam, now want America to withdraw from Iraq in the same way. Anyone who lived through each of these events, as I have, knows the results. The divisions always leave bitterness…

  • South Asians, not cops, need sensitivity lessons

    An open letter to Reema R. Desai I understand from your letter to the editor on the opinion page of the Oct. 18 Sentinel that you are seeking solutions for your concerns about issues that recently arose in Edison. May I strongly suggest that you look no further than your own backyard and the people…

  • Veteran should be able to resume job as a firefighter

    It was with utter disgust that I recently read an article in an area publication regarding the refusal of Joseph Vas’ administration to return a U.S. Marine from Perth Amboy to his position as a firefighter, the job he held before he went to Iraq to fight for his country. Shame on you, Mayor Vas.…