Category: Suburban Opinion
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Biesiada will bring ethics, efficiency back to education
Do you want a person who will be there for us? Well, then on April 19 vote for Tom Biesiada, who is running for Sayreville Board of Education. We would like to introduce you to a candidate we know is honest, dedicated, has common sense and is true to the cause. Tom Biesiada, who has…
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JFVS program aims to be vital resource
NOVA, the vocational and employment services department of Jewish Family and Vocational Service (JFVS) of Middlesex County, recently held its first Strictly Business Breakfast, an event honoring businesses that contribute to the health and growth of the region’s economy through a commitment to work-force development. The theme of this year’s event was Developing Centers of…
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County vocational schools work
Jr. Guest Column Jose “J ay” J imenez & John F. B icsko The Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High Schools have been educating and training the youth of our county for almost 100 years. Graduates of our schools have designed, built, maintained and served both the structure and the people of Middlesex County. The…
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Ailing system doesn’t make it OK to drain taxpayers
With few exceptions, the school budgets being presented in districts across Middlesex County, and most of New Jersey for that matter, are bringing bad news for residents — tax increases. Again. Just about every Middlesex County school district covered by Greater Media Newspapers is talking about a tax increase, a topic that has become all…
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Teachers’ quality not measured by salaries
I would like to respond to the article titled “Teacher Salaries Vary by Towns” that appeared in your newspaper’s recent School Report Cards 2003-04 stories. Not too long ago, there was a letter to the editor in a local newspaper written by a resident of Edison. The writer complained that teachers and the New Jersey…
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End parkway tolls now before more millions are spent
It takes a bureaucracy of more than 800 people to collect Garden State Parkway tolls. This total includes a pro-rata share of E-ZPass personnel. Imagine if each state highway had such a bureaucracy. Toll collecting is a 24/7 operation, so the costly toll-collection operation must be in place even at 3 a.m., when traffic is…
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Mayor’s interpretation of ‘home’ baffles resident
Brian J. Cahill Guest Column When is a home not really a home? When Mayor James T. Phillips says so, that’s when. I watched the Old Bridge Township Council meeting this week in disbelief as our mayor stated (with a straight face, mind you) that the homes proposed on the Olympia & York (O&Y) land…
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Factual inaccuracies should be corrected
David B. Crabiel Guest Column In the Suburban’s March 3 “Your Turn” guest column (“Comments Based on 2003, Not 2005, Budget”), former Republican candidate for Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders Frank J. Coury took issue with my response (“Freeholder Director Answers Criticism,” Suburban, Feb. 24) to his earlier letter, “Freeholders Wasting Tax Dollars, Ignoring…
