Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • 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.…

  • Kean not just a Republican Party follower, reader says

    A new voice for Washington. The winds of change are blowing in New Jersey from north to south, east to west. People are yearning for a change from candidates offered by entrenched corrupt party bosses. New Jersey voters now have an opportunity to elect a U.S. Senator, in the person of Tom Kean Jr., to…

  • Vote for Democratic Congress will end war

    Bob Woodward’s new book “State of Denial” reveals that Henry Kissinger has been advising President Bush about Iraq, telling him that “victory is the only meaningful exit strategy.” Can anyone now deny that Iraq is the new Vietnam? Both wars were based on false information, both cost the lives of thousands of American troops and…

  • Obituaries

    Christopher Leffler Mr. Leffler, 53, of Woodbridge, died suddenly Oct. 3 at Rahway Hospital. He was a lifelong resident of Woodbridge. Mr. Leffler ran a successful lawn-care service and was a member of the Avenel Fire Department. He also taught martial arts and had achieved taekwondo black belt master status. He was a graduate of…

  • Coda

    Bad ideas often take on a life of their own Greg Bean Sometimes, a bad idea infects a segment of society and travels through it like an epidemic of Hong Kong flu. Take the current hysteria about trans fats, for example. One politician, somewhere, gets the idea that he can get some exposure proposing legislation…

  • Solutions, not placing blame, should be the goal

    In Jay Bodas’ article, “PBA backs out of community committee,” Mike Schwarz, president of PBA Local 75, implies that SAALT – a community-based nonprofit organization – has no business being involved in community affairs in Edison. Mr. Schwarz clearly mischaracterizes our organization’s efforts in New Jersey. As an organization that strengthens South Asian communities around…

  • Edison police just doing their job

    The problem we have in Edison has nothing at all to do with racial bias. It has to do with being accountable regardless of race if you break a law. Having gone on to the Web site of SAALT, I agree with Michael Schwarz that this organization would be impossible for the police to deal…

  • PBA president was right to step down

    I was dismayed and appalled at the editorial “Time to step down.” I thought it was inappropriate and does not reflect the feelings of the silent majority. Americans are fed up and have had enough of the political correctness and blatant, arrogant attempts to attack our tradition, culture, and our rights to an orderly way…