Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion
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Health-care system needs a Band-Aid
Nearly 46 million people and rising. That’s the number of Americans without health-care coverage, many of them the working poor. That translates into more than 16 percent of the population of the United States does not have health care. In some states, that figure exceeds 20 percent. In the great state of Texas, the president’s…
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Complainers turn council meetings into carnival
There are at least two problems that seem to plague the mayor and council these days. Both are unfortunate and unnecessary. The first is the “Complainers”. They complain as if it was their job. They complain to complain, not to make a difference. Disagreeing is not the issue. Disagreement is healthy because differing opinions foster…
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Police needed for security, not classes
I am writing with a concern I feel the New Jersey taxpayers need to know about, especially with all the state budget talk. During the past few months, I have written to our acting and now new governor and legislators about an important issue affecting every taxpayer in New Jersey. Their response was none or…
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Accountant disagrees with mayor’s take on finances
I have been writing about the tests that Mayor Choi has faced and continues to face as mayor. I reported his first grade – an F- after he very publicly lobbied the Township Council for an 8 point tax increase for the school board. Now, as we approach the beginning of Mr. Choi’s budget year…
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Obituaries
Jason A. Mistretta Mr. Mistretta, 24, of Edison, died June 21 at home. Born in Mineola, N.Y., he had lived in North Brunswick and Old Bridge before moving to Edison five years ago. A 1999 graduate of North Brunswick High School, he had been employed by Chris Price Construction Inc., Edison, for the past five…
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Watching for terrorists on the Mighty Raritan
Greg Bean Coda They say a rising tide floats all boats, and that’s certainly true in Middlesex County, where the rising tide of Homeland Security grant money is apparently enabling the county to build its own navy. According to a press release last week from the Middlesex County Board of Freeholders, the county has dedicated…
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A gentleman, a gentle man
Woodbridge lost more than just a public official when Mayor Frank G. Pelzman died peacefully in his boyhood home last week, less than a month after he first announced he had cancer. The township’s residents lost a true public servant. Many, even politicians who may have disagreed with him at times, considered him a friend.…
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Resident troubled by how public officials are treated
‘Rude” is not a strong enough word to describe some township residents who have recently made it their business to attend and speak at the Edison Township Council meetings. “Obnoxious” may be a better word, but it still would not be an adequate description of certain individuals who disguise themselves as “concerned citizens.” The only…
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Island Beach State Park is ‘a conservation jewel’
Summer at the Jersey Shore needs no explaining. And one of the best beach destinations is Island Beach State Park in Seaside Park. But it’s more than just sun, sand and surf that make this one of New Jersey’s “Great Summer Destinations” – it’s a conservation jewel as well. Since Colonial times, the narrow 10-mile-long…
