Category: Suburban Opinion
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Time for air travelers to demand a bill of rights
Greg Bean Coda Greg BeanCoda My stepfather has some strong opinions, but he’s a good Republican and hardly the type you’d accuse of being a rabble-rouser. Last time I saw him, though, he was ready to lead a national revolution, and his target was the United States airline industry, which he considers the most arrogant,…
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Global climate change is scientific fact, not just theory
Ron Nash (“Global-Warming Legislation Will Mean New Tax,” Sentinel, Letters to the Editor, Aug. 2) distorts and ignores several facts in his response to my letter, “Congress: Follow New Jersey’s Global-Warming Lead” (Sentinel, Letters to the Editor, July 26). This writer claims I’m using the “newly revised term for global warming, which is global climate…
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Party’s over at arts center
The state issued an abrupt last call for alcohol in the parking lot of the PNC Bank Arts Center last week, ending a decades-long tradition of preconcert tailgating. It seems the winds of change were blowing in that direction since the first concert of the season, when about a dozen underagers were hospitalized due to…
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Obituaries
Norman M. Wick Mr. Wick, 82, of South Amboy, died Aug. 16, 2007, in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth Mae Noel Wick; a daughter, Linda Stanton of Colorado Springs, Colo.; a son, Norman Jr. of Pocono Summit, Pa.; a brother, Magnus of Lodi, Calif.; two sisters, Bertha Haakson…
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Thanks to all who made county fair a success
On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Middlesex County Fair Association, we would like to extend our thanks to everyone who came to the 69th annual Middlesex County Fair as well as all the volunteers who helped make this week possible. Once again, fairgoers were provided with an opportunity to help those in…
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Americans share history of immigration and hope
Greg Bean Coda Greg BeanCoda It’s tough to know the exact details, because family legend sometimes takes on certain fictional properties. In other words, the family members (at least in my family) passing the legend along don’t always let facts get in the way of a good story. That said, here – according to family…
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Supports new commuting options in Old Bridge
In this age when there are more problems than solutions offered, I was greatly impressed by the reasonableness of Margaret M. Jelcich’s ideas on how to solve Old Bridge’s increasing commuter problems (“Residents Lack Convenient, Safe Commuter Parking,” Suburban, Aug. 9). As a senior citizen living by Route 9 but still having some difficulty walking…
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Kids get demonstration of Pop-Tart etiquette
Lori Clinch Are We There Yet? Lori ClinchAre We There Yet? Yesterday there were three empty packages of macaroni and cheese on the kitchen counter. We had no drinking glasses left in the cupboard. Someone had poured himself cereal, added a load of sugar and most of it had missed the bowl. There were dinner…
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Pet names don’t take power from a truly liberated lady
Girl Talk Clare Marie Celano A man I was very close to was fond of calling me Tinkerbell, or Tink. He also told me I was solely responsible for global warming. Here was a man who understood the power and value of balance in an intimate relationship with a woman. He also called me Princess…
