Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

  • What’s happening to American dream of home ownership?

    Although acting Gov. Richard Codey’s proposed budget was reportedly recognized by analysts on Wall Street as potentially providing a newfound structural balance for the state, this impending balance is reached by digging deep into the pockets of New Jersey’s middle-class residents, potential New Jersey residents and small-business owners. While the bill does not raise the…

  • Mom’s gonna be crabby until the house is sold

    Are We There Yet? Lori Clinch You know the trouble with some women? They are too clean. I once had a friend with a clean house and I didn’t like her. Hanging out with her was like experiencing a fat day and chumming with Pamela Anderson. It’s hard to befriend a woman whose beds are…

  • 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, second-hand smoke causes immediate body chemistry changes. It causes change in the…

  • It’s a burning question: Where does the time go?

    Coda Greg Bean When kids are little, they figure their parents know everything. Most parents say that stage usually lasts until a couple of years before puberty, when kids decide their parents know absolutely nothing. I think it lasts until the kids ask the one question for which almost no parent has a decent answer,…

  • Support needed to preserve NJ’s wildlife rehabilitators

    New Jersey’s wildlife is in big trouble. Until recently, many volunteers cared for distressed and disabled wildlife. Townships, veterinarians and homeowners had relied on wildlife rehabilitators to deal with animals that typically an official, paid for by the taxpayers, would be called upon to remove. Wildlife rehabilitators numbered more than 100 to cover the entire…

  • More ‘healthy skepticism’ needed in clairvoyant story

    I began reading the article “Connecting with ‘Other Side’” in your April 20 issue with a certain amused curiosity. But my amusement turned to disbelief as I realized you were covering a self-promoting event organized by a self-proclaimed clairvoyant, as if it were a regular news item, the same way you might cover a school…

  • Obituaries

    Randolph “Randy” Calvert Bramwell Mr. Bramwell, 76, of Racine, Wis., formerly of New Jersey, died April 19 following a courageous fight against progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative brain disease. Born in East Orange, he was a longtime New Jersey resident who moved to Wisconsin with his wife several years ago. A graduate of Metuchen High…

  • Obituaries

    Albert Ley Mr. Ley, 91, of South Plainfield, died April 10 at Haven Hospice at JFK Medical Center, Edison. Born in Newark, he had lived in South Plainfield for most of his life. Before retiring in 1973, Mr. Ley was a lineman for New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., Plainfield, for 39 years, and was also…