Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Education should be paid by parents

    The current funding for government schools must be altered. We are now experiencing a rapid change in demographics. The percentage of all adults who do not have children is now the majority. That is based on the large percentage of single people, and the growing popularity of the child-free lifestyle for couples. Increasing numbers of…

  • Leadership of Democrats fosters juvenile behavior

    The Democratic Party of yesteryear was a good one with presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and John F. Kennedy. The presidents after JFK left a lot to be desired and an incentive to join the Republican Party. Sen. Robert Menendez only knows how to sling mud. That does not include his activities…

  • Obituaries

    William M. Klimowicz Mr. Klimowicz, 86, of Monroe, died Oct. 31, 2006, at Francis E. Parker Nursing Home, Piscataway. Born in Whippany, he resided in Bayonne and South Brunswick before moving to the Rossmoor section of Monroe in 1993. Mr. Klimowicz was a maintenance supervisor for the South Brunswick Board of Education from 1960 to…

  • Event will allow public to honor valiant veterans of WWII

    ‘A day that will live in infamy.” These are the penetrating words of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as he appeared before the U.S. Congress to ask for a declaration of war against the Japanese Empire on Dec. 8, 1941. Since that time there have been many wars and many days of infamy, including the day…

  • Coda

    With the campaigns over, we can get back to nice ads Greg Bean I was so happy to turn the television on last night and see that the ubiquitous ads for erectile dysfunction medications were back in prime-time rotation and the tiresome attack ads from Robert Menendez and Tom Kean Jr. were finally gone. I…

  • For the Record

    A Nov. 2 profile on Our Attempt at Saving Innocent Souls (OASIS), a charity for Haitian orphans, did not include contact information for the organization. Those interested in contacting OASIS can visit its Web site, www.oasisforchildren. org, or e-mail Luceanna Moore at [email protected].

  • Are We There Yet?

    Her husband is still a work in progress Lori Clinch If you don’t mind my saying so, I firmly believe there should be an easy-to-understand 12-step program that tells a man the proper responses to a woman’s inquiries. Men shouldn’t be allowed to run around being flagrantly honest at all times. After all, just because…

  • Last-minute ‘planning’ drives this mom crazy

    Lori Clinch Are We There Yet? Last Wednesday morning I looked at the calendar and jumped for joy. For there in the midst of our color-coded schedules, obligations and car pools was an empty day. The date almost leapt from the page and it was as bright and free as I could ever have hoped.…

  • Obituaries

    William A. Blackburn Mr. Blackburn, 90, of Matawan, died Oct. 24, 2006, at Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. He was born in Covington, Ky. He was employed at American Airlines for 33 years, retiring in 1979 as a reservations manager. Following retirement, he was a crossing guard at Raritan Valley School, Hazlet, and St. Benedict’s School,…