Category: Suburban Opinion
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Many potential contributors to Social Security ‘pot’
I read and saw on television that Social Security is in trouble. I am an elderly man (age 92) so I have a lot of time to think. I remember John F. Kennedy said in one of his famous speeches, “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for…
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Obituaries
Joseph Krzyzewski Sr. Mr. Krzyzewski, 66, of Old Bridge, died May 4 in Raritan Bay Medical Center, Old Bridge division. He was a warehouse manager with Eagle International, Edison. Surviving are his wife, Rosalyn Bissell Krzyzewski; a son, Joseph Jr. of Jackson; a daughter, Lisa O’Connell of Flemington; and five grandchildren. A memorial service was…
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Greg Bean
Coda Plea to ignore election results is misguided I can usually watch my local council meetings on the community’s public access channel without suffering the fantods, but last week was a different story. In my community, East Brunswick, we’ve faced school budget increases of nearly 30 cents per $100 in valuation every year for the…
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Stiff penalties needed for school bomb threats
Juveniles do all sorts of things that seem like fun at the time, but they live to realize they were stupid. Think prank calls, bullying, sneaking beers into the woods or damaging private property on Mischief Night. Although these acts violate one law or another, when the youths are caught, the tendency by authorities is…
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Frank Weber
Guest Column Broadcast was campaign ad paid for by voters Anita Greenberg’s letter to the editor pointing out the unethical nature of OBTV’s broadcast of the interview with Mayor James Phillips and Annette Hopman, then-president of the Old Bridge Board of Education (“Board of Education President’s Appearance Was Inappropriate”), was published in the April 20…
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Town officials must act on message from voters
As local governing bodies throughout Middlesex County consider cuts to school budgets defeated by voters, it is important that they keep in mind the simple fact that voters have said no to the proposed tax increase. The job of municipal officials now is to respond to that message by making a noticeable reduction in the…
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Melville D. Miller Jr.
& the Rev. Bruce Davidson Guest Column Your Turn Remembering the poorest at budget time Gov. Jon Corzine should be commended for including in his budget proposal several first steps addressing the “moral responsibility” to alleviate severe poverty in New Jersey. Among these key initial anti-poverty initiatives are: + Raising the threshold at which married…
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Youngsters to bring rock and grammar to the stage
BY MICHAEL ACKER Staff Writer BY MICHAEL ACKERStaff Writer SAYREVILLE — “School House Rock” is coming to town. In this case, make that “School House Rock Jr.” Students from the Sayreville Middle School will be performing music and scenes from the show this weekend at Arleth Elementary School “gymatorium” with assistance from middle school faculty…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Eisenhower School students in kindergarten and first grade take part in the April 26 walk-a-thon in Sayreville.
