Category: Suburban Opinion
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Gov. should keep promise for convention
If we were to cast a television adaptation of “Trenton Does Property Tax Relief,” who better to star than Jerry, George Costanza and Cosmo Kramer? The bumbling, stumbling and ineptitude would be funny, if it wasn’t so sad. Many of us have worked for several years seeking a citizens constitutional property tax convention. We have…
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State workers should not accept pension raise
Recently officials of the teachers’ and state workers’ unions have said that it is illegal for the Legislature to make any changes to workers’ benefits. It must be done in collective bargaining at the bargaining table when contracts are renegotiated. Therefore, I suggest the 9 percent pension increase given to them by the Legislature several…
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Hope you didn’t miss the Holly Belly Boutique
Adele Young Bloopers We like to start the new year by looking back at the typographical and grammatical errors that almost made it, and some that actually did make it, into some of Greater Media Newspapers’ publications during the previous year. This ain’t the “Oprah” show: In a story about local efforts to aid the…
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Coda
At least, the mayor always kept everything interestin’ Greg Bean There’s a wonderful scene in Larry McMurtry’s great American novel “Lonesome Dove” when former Texas Rangers Woodrow Call and Gus McCrae are discussing the inexorable march of time. They’ve just ridden into San Antonio, Texas, and the place is much different from the raucous frontier…
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Obituaries
William Graves Mr. Graves, 83, of South Amboy, died Dec. 31, 2006, in Bayshore Community Hospital, Holmdel. His wife, Dorothy Berlau Graves, died in 1999. Surviving are a sister, Jean Marie Dellavalle of Lakewood; and several nieces and nephews. Services were held at Carmen F. Spezzi Funeral Home, Parlin section of Sayreville. Interment was in…
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High school updates
PHOTOS BYMICHAEL ACKER Clockwise from top left: A worker hammers caps on to a bar on the Sayreville War Memorial High School construction site yesterday. The high school’s new $1 million turf football field was completed as part of the school’s $47 million referendum. Workers mark and survey an area under construction.
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Guest Column
Your Turn Legislature fails state’s average taxpayers Bill Vick Your Turn Legislature fails state’s average taxpayers I just finished reading Greg Bean’s column, “Tax Reform: They’ve Got Some ‘Splainin’ to Do,” Dec. 13, (excellent, by the way), and I am perplexed. The source of this confusion is the realization that I have become a second-class…
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Parents must bear greater burden in education, safety costs
I believe that it is time for the parents of school-age children to realize that they, the parents, need to start paying a larger share for the education and safety of their children. We will all help with the onerous property taxes that everyone in this state pays, but these parents must start to foot…
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Relief from tax burden should, but won’t, begin with politicians
This is an open letter to Greg Bean, executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers, regarding his “Coda” column, “If They Won’t Do It, We’ll Have To Do It Ourselves,” that appeared in the Dec. 21 issue of the Suburban. I am a resident of Old Bridge and have been for the past 19 years. I…
