Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Your Turn

    Harold V. Kane Guest Column Harold V. KaneGuest Column Highway funds should stay in New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine is leading New Jersey into a foolhardy joint venture with New York City and the Port Authority. This joint venture is the construction of a third-rail tunnel under the Hudson River. The governor proposes to divert…

  • Obituaries

    Stephen J. Vona Mr. Vona, 96, of Sayreville, died Aug. 8, 2007, at home. His wife, Rita Creamer Vona, died in April. Surviving are a daughter, Jacqueline McCrone, and her husband, Robert, of Middlesex; a son, Stephen Vona, and his wife, Jacqueline, of Sayreville; four brothers, John Vona, Joseph Vona, the Rev. Michael Vona and…

  • Grateful for hospital infection prevention bill

    As a former volunteer for a group dedicated to the prevention of deadly hospital infections, I was ecstatic to hear about Gov. Jon Corzine signing the hospital infection prevention bill recently. I have worked tirelessly to educate the public in our community on the dangers of contracting a deadly staph infection while in the hospital.…

  • Bass Levin example of system’s problems

    New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Commissioner Susan Bass Levin has become my poster child for all that is wrong with the New Jersey retirement system for elected and appointed public officials (servants?). Reportedly she is wealthy, has a $220,000 position on our Port Authority Board, and yet needs a $12,000 obscure position as one…

  • Impressed by candidates’ vision for O.B.

    Township Councilman Richard Greene recently stopped by my home to let me know that he was running for mayor in the election to be held in November. With the councilman were the three other council candidates who are running with him in the upcoming election. I liked what they had to say about their vision…

  • A New York City icon on the Green River’s banks

    Greg Bean Coda Greg BeanCoda This is a story about optimism, but before I tell it, I have to tell you a little bit about small towns in Wyoming. When I was growing up there, I went to high school in Casper, which at about 35,000 inhabitants was referred to by the folk who lived…

  • Obituaries

    Joseph John Fryzowicz Mr. Fryzowicz, 65, of the Dayton section of South Brunswick, formerly of Old Bridge, died July 21, 2007, in Saint Peter’s University Medical Center, New Brunswick. Surviving are his wife, Elizabeth Herrmann Fryzowicz; three sons and one daughter-in-law, Daniel Goldman and Greg Goldman, both of Dayton, and Wayne and Patricia Goldman of…

  • Residents lack convenient, safe commuter parking

    Margaret M. Jelcich Guest Column Margaret M. JelcichGuest Column I must comment on your recent article regarding Old Bridge’s commuter parking lots, empty or otherwise (“Old Bridge To Allow Sayreville Use of Empty Commuter Lot,” Suburban, July 26). Commuters have complained for years about the lack of convenient parking (and bus service). People are lured…

  • Global-warming legislation will mean new tax

    This letter is in response to Eddie Konczal’s letter to the editor, “Congress: Follow N.J.’s Global-Warming Lead” (Suburban, July 26), praising the New Jersey Legislature for passing the Global Warming Response Act. He also uses the newly revised term for global warming, which is global climate change. I’m sure the new term global climate change…