Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion
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Coda
Dog Days of Summer, and the time’s a-wastin’ Greg Bean A new survey by Salary.com and America Online finds that the average American worker wastes about 1.86 hours every day, not counting lunch. According to a story about the survey in the Chicago Sun Times last week, that is a minor improvement over last year,…
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Tax burden not likely to lessen with new tax panel
New Jersey’s answer to the tax dilemma has been drastically changed. Previously there was the belief that the future held opportunity for improvement over the current disastrous taxation without representation. Gov. [Jon] Corzine spoke eloquently about the future and how special tax panels were going to ferret out the problems plaguing the system. One had…
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Readers take issue with letter criticizing Stephens
We read with great interest the letter to the editor penned by Loretta Lord. In it she states that Jun Choi won the mayoralty race. We don’t think anyone in Edison or anywhere else in the area of your readership would dispute that. As for Bill Stephens and George Spadoro, they have known each other…
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Reader skeptical of some council members’ motives
All this news is swirling about on the eminent domain battle in Long Branch. People seem to forget that some current council members and the last administration in Edison tried to close down an operating business in order to buy up the land. It seems that no one realizes that this happened. Some real cloak-and-dagger…
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Marketplace reality is a factor in development
I am no stranger to community activism. But I am baffled by the column which, while applauding the Metuchen Planning Board meeting last week (which I unfortunately was unable to attend), ignores the two prior public meetings sponsored by the borough government to elicit exactly the sort of input which the writer allegedly seeks. Her…
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Rabbi says mayor has excluded him from duties
I would like to thank the Sentinel for and Jay Bodas for the article published Aug. 2 “Rabbi Miffed about Exclusion in Ceremony”. When I was a child one of the lessons my parents taught me was to have respect and reverence for clergy of all faiths. Mr. Jerry Barca states that “no offense” was…
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Woodbridge must reinvent the way it does business
I was born and raised in Woodbridge. I still live in my childhood home with my wife in the Hopelawn section of the township. I remember as a kid, the grand opening of the Woodbridge Center Mall. Growing up, when I told people what town I was from, they knew our town by “the Mall.”…
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Reader questions sudden friendship of political foes
On a national level, most of us have become accustomed to the distortion of the truth. Locally, when the citizens of Edison elected Jun Choi, we voted for a change. We voted to elect Jun Choi, but we are still getting Bill Stephens. It was a tough fight, definitely not a pretty one, but Mr.…
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Obituaries
Adelaide “Skippy” Connors Callahan Mrs. Callahan, 90, of Eatontown, died July 29 at Riverview Medical Center, Red Bank. Born in Newark, she resided in Nutley, and Orange, prior to moving to Eatontown. She was a billing supervisor at Monroe International Corporation, Orange, and Morris Plains, retiring in 1982. She enjoyed cooking, Atlantic City, and was…
