Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Congress: Follow New Jersey’s global-warming lead

    I would like to congratulate New Jersey’s Legislature for passing the Global Warming Response Act, which will help reduce our state’s greenhouse gas emissions. For too long, the federal government has failed to take meaningful action on the global-warming crisis. As a result, it has been left to individual states to address the problem. I…

  • Thank you for the gift, whatever it was

    Lori Clinch Are We There Yet? Lori ClinchAre We There Yet? Thank you cards. I get sick just thinking about them. Although my saying so may make me look bad in the eyes of the etiquette police (and I’m sure it’s enough to make Ms. Manners choke on her crumpet), I wish the darned tradition…

  • Cahill will bring needed change to gov’t

    Now that the primary election is behind us, the battle begins for who will be Old Bridge’s next mayor and who will be elected to the three Township Council at-large seats. My neighbor, Brian Cahill, is running for council alongside Rich Greene, who is running for mayor. I have known Brian for many years, and…

  • Corzine is not working for the people of New Jersey

    By all reports New Jersey is in serious financial distress. Only two states are said to be operating at deficits, and New Jersey did not suffer the ravages of Katrina. We have a $78 billion unfunded liability for employee and retiree health-care costs and a $26 billion unfunded liability for pension costs. (That’s billion with…

  • Obituaries

    Richard T. Gozick Mr. Gozick, 72, of East Brunswick, formerly of Spotswood, died July 5, 2007, in Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick. Prior to his retirement in 1998, he was employed as a welder, based in Sayreville, for Jersey Central Power and Light, where he worked for 25 years. Before that, he was employed…

  • ‘Best Place to Live’ rank no shock to many locals

    For a town that has been generating a lot of negative news lately, Sayreville indeed has something to boast about this week. It is one of eight New Jersey towns named in Money Magazine’s “Top 100 Best Places to Live.” Granted, the borough’s rank of No. 47 in the United States may raise some eyebrows…

  • Youthful folly is fleeting, but the Internet is forever

    Greg Bean Coda Greg BeanCoda Every now and then, I get a call from someone who has gotten caught doing something illegal and doesn’t want his or her name in the paper. Usually, the caller is a normally upright citizen who has gotten stopped for driving under the influence or another similar infraction. They’re not…

  • When letter writing was a genteel, reasoned art

    Greg Bean Coda Greg BeanCoda When I was a young political reporter out West, I drew the unrestrained ire of a perennial candidate for governor named Al Hamburg. As it often goes with these things, Al took offense at something I’d written about him (I think it was the article about a lawsuit he filed…

  • Volunteers, donors made gala a success

    For the past two years the borough of Sayreville has celebrated our nation’s independence with a day of festivities leading up to the fireworks at night, “the bombs bursting in air.” This year there was a spectacular performance, not only by the musicians, but also by the volunteers who stepped up to make this celebration…