Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion
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N.B. school collecting undergarments for troops
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK — The old adage is to never leave home without a clean pair of underwear. Unfortunately, injured and sick military personnel serving overseas sometimes are only wrapped in a hospital gown or blanket as they are being treated or flown to another medical center.…
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Teachers turn to each other for improvement
BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer “Studies point to this approach as the most successful. Bringing teachers together to share and collaborate is the power and strength of education.” — Geri Margin NORTH BRUNSWICK — Teachers teaching teachers. As part of continuing professional development in the township school district, professional learning communities…
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New Jersey cannot leave the poor behind in property tax reform
Property tax relief is essential in New Jersey, and in many cases it will be an anti-poverty measure for moderate and middle-income households. However, in attempts to fix property taxes, it is important to recognize that for New Jerseyans with the lowest incomes, property tax relief alone means nothing. New Jersey is one of the…
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Corzine shows no guts on tax reform
It hasn’t taken very long for Gov. Jon Corzine to show his true colors regarding his tax reform initiative. After ordering the Legislature into a special session to develop tax reforms, he now exhibits a recreant streak at the first and most important legislative proposal: the bloated pension system for public employees. His statement asking…
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Time for Route 92 to go away for good
We’ve heard “Route 92 is dead” before, but we hope in the name of common sense that this time it stays that way. Over the past few years, the proposed highway, a 6.7-mile toll road that would have connected the New Jersey Turnpike from Exit 8A to Route 1 near Kingston, has been “killed” only…
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Coda
If they won Greg Bean If there’s one thing we can almost all agree on this week, it’s that the BIG DEAL effort at property tax reform this year is as dead as Chester Watson’s mule. And as everyone who saw it hit by lightning — three times — can attest, that cranky old mule…
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Are We There Yet?
So much for a nice, quiet evening at home Lori Clinch For the first time in well over 18 years, my husband and I were slated to have an actual Saturday night at home and all alone. One of our children was invited to a birthday party, another was to attend a sleepover, and Charlie,…
