Category: Sentinel-NBS Opinion

  • Recognize Holt’s service by voting for him Nov. 7

    George W. Bush likes to portray Democrats as soft on security, but Democrats like Rep. Rush Holt (D-12) have been proving the president wrong. Recently, Holt was the prime sponsor of an amendment to this year’s Homeland Security Appropriations Act. Holt’s amendment increased federal funding for transit security by 15 percent. New Jerseyans will directly…

  • Lynch contributions a valid campaign issue

    It seems that campaign contributions given by former state Sen. John Lynch and his political action committee, New Directions Through Responsible Leadership, have become political poison in this year’s election cycle. However, we won’t know for sure until Election Day how toxic they are. Lynch, a once super-connected figure in state politics – in former…

  • Kean will help alter New Jersey’s image

    In a recent telephone interview with the Associated Press, U.S. Senate candidate Robert Menendez called himself the “GOP’s worst nightmare.” As a registered Democrat, the thought of Menendez being my senator is my worst nightmare. Like his mentor and Democratic Party boss John Lynch, Menendez is making headlines for all the wrong reasons. It seems…

  • Coda

    Bad ideas often take on a life of their own Greg Bean Sometimes, a bad idea infects a segment of society and travels through it like an epidemic of Hong Kong flu. Take the current hysteria about trans fats, for example. One politician, somewhere, gets the idea that he can get some exposure proposing legislation…

  • Bus ads a good deal

    Now and then you hear about a government initiative so common sensical, you’re surprised it wasn’t being done already. At a press conference in North Brunswick last week, Middlesex County officials announced that they would begin selling advertisements to be placed on the sides of county buses. Middlesex County Area Transit will partner with a…

  • For the Record

    The North Brunswick Board of Education has hired consultant J.D. Associates to assist with their superintendent search for a fee of $18,500, not $6,000, as was reported in the Oct. 5 story “Public invited to share thoughts on supt. search.”

  • Coda

    This year, old-fashioned is the height of fashion Greg Bean Like many men of my acquaintance, I have a simple philosophy when it comes to fashion: Pick a look you like and stay with it forever. For me, that means my work wardrobe consists almost entirely of khaki or colored-denim trousers, oxford shirts with buttoned…

  • Are We There Yet?

    She would just love to sell her cell phone Lori Clinch From the moment I saw a woman on TV using a cell phone to call in a pizza, I wanted a cell phone so bad I couldn’t stand it. A cloud of desire came over me as I imagined all of the freedom that…

  • Obituaries

    Mary Volgyi Hale Mrs. Hale, 85, of South Brunswick, died Sept. 24 at Park Place Center, South Brunswick. Born in Carteret, she resided in Perth Amboy; Detroit; Parrishville, N.Y.; Milltown; New Brunswick; and Clinton prior to moving to South Brunswick in 1991. She was an assembler and machine operator at Quality Packaging, Frenchtown, for 21…