Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion
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It’s down and dirty in the 13th District
Coda Greg Bean Just remember, you read it here first. Since we broke the story over two weeks ago, the tale of James Devine, the Union County political dirty-trickster and newspaper publisher, has been getting a great deal of attention at the state level. Devine got caught producing a phony Internet Web site to rock…
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Middle school kids come through for the troops
Fifth-graders take on letter-writing project to boost Marines BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer PHOTO COURTESY OF ROSEANN MISRAHI Students from Edgar Middle School became recent pen pals with soldiers in Iraq after responding to a call for correspondence from Sub Place Better owner George Post. METUCHEN — George Post had just…
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Letters
Anti-pollution group urges passage of smoke-free act The years of brainwashing and rhetoric from the tobacco companies still have some people thinking that secondhand smoke is no more than a nuisance — it’s not. It’s a deadly poison. As soon as it’s inhaled, secondhand smoke causes immediate body chemistry changes. It causes change in the…
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Time to justify high salary
Metuchen Board of Education members recently voted to extend Superintendent of Schools Theresa Sinatra’s contract another five years. Nothing wrong with that, on face value. It makes sense to keep a competent professional who presided over the successful referendum in December on board for the renovations to aging Metuchen High School. What doesn’t make sense…
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For the Record
The address of the Jewish Family and Vocational Service (JFVS) of Middlesex County in Edison was incorrect in the May 4 issue of the Sentinel. The correct address is 515 Plainfield Ave, Suite 201.
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Children deserve ‘learning environment free from fear’
Your Turn Richard J. Codey Every parent’s nightmare unfolded over three days last August, during the massacre of 300 adults and children at a school in Russia. In many ways, that attack was as horrifying to the Russian people as Sept. 11, 2001, was to us. It exposed a weakness where weakness should not exist…
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A new entry in the book of lame excuses
Coda Greg Bean I remember the time my cousin, Danny, ate three cans of pork and beans warmed Boy Scout-style over an open fire. The afternoon was a lot of fun, but when we came back to grandma’s farmhouse that evening, Danny was — not to put too fine a point on it — starting…
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Letters
Spadoro lauded for property tax reform fight On behalf of property taxpayers all around New Jersey, and especially those in Edison, I am writing to recognize the efforts of Mayor George Spadoro to reform New Jersey’s regressive and chronic overdependence on property taxes to fund essential programs and services. His testimony on May 12, before…
