Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • 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.”…

  • 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.…

  • Resident unhappy with Mayor Choi’s new budget

    What’s up with Edison Mayor Jun Choi and his proposed $108.5 million 2007 budget? It seems the truth is an economy in town hall these days. Otherwise, how could he explain the gloom and doom scenario he’s using to try and sell this budget? Specifically, his proposed budget increases spending by $8 million, or 7.9…

  • Cost of governing must be trimmed

    To cut spending in the State of New Jersey, one must consider the cost associated with representation.Government is too big. I have five council people, one mayor, their staffs to support locally [in Long Branch]. I have two assemblymen and their staffs to support. I have a state senator and his staff to support. I…

  • Obituaries

    Grace Frank Motylewski Mrs. Motylewski, 87, of Edison, died June 24 at Mary Anne Hale Pavilion of Haven Hospice at JFK Medical Center, Edison, after a short hospitalization. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she had spent most of her life in New Jersey and had resided in Edison since 1949. A graduate of New Jersey State…

  • Coda

    Zambrano feels ‘awful,’ and well he should Greg Bean Just when you think your personal disgust meter can’t go any higher, along comes Fazz Zambrano to kick it into full-tilt, red-line boogie. As most people in Monmouth County know, on July 20 John “Fazz” Zambrano pleaded guilty to taking a bribe in an undercover sting…

  • Loss of respect for law will result in mob rule

    When the Japanese and Germans went to war with the United States, they were counting on the fact that America was too racially divided. I guess they didn’t count on the Japanese Americans, German Americans; Irish, African, Italian, Polish, Mexican and American Americans who were willing to die for liberty. America is the greatest nation…

  • Variety of goals for school year planned

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – School officials have set a variety of goals for each of the four district schools next year. Metuchen High School juniors will be given four math tests dealing with data analysis and probability to prep them for the High School Proficiency Test. Juniors will…

  • Legislators to blame for sales tax increase

    There’s plenty of money in the state to pay for our needs. Why did we need an additional penny sales tax? These may be some of the reasons: The state spending $75,000 a month for an investigation into the wrongdoings of Attorney General [Zulima] Farber. Solution: She should be asked to resign immediately. The University…