Category: Tri-Town Opinion

  • Bressi’s sensible ideas are right ones for Jackson Township’s future

    Like most Americans, I am disgusted with government claiming to know what is best for us. Have elected officials forgotten that the are supposed to be representatives of the people? If not, then a massive dose of arrogance or indifference has infected their mentality. Jackson currently has the most foreclosures in Ocean County. Taxes continue…

  • Consume plant-based foods to help stave off cancer

    Actress Farrah Fawcett, age 62, was one of the 50,000 people who die annually from colorectal cancer. Early stages present few, if any, symptoms. Advanced colorectal cancer may result in rectal bleeding, blood in the stool, change in stool appearance, bloating, diarrhea, constipation and/or a feeling of incomplete elimination. In 1990, scientists determined eating red…

  • Pay scale for corrections officers is unsustainable

    Guest Column • John D’Amico Monmouth County taxpayers are suffering from unemployment, under-employment, foreclosures, deferred retirement and diminished lifestyles, and they need help. We must change the old ways of doing things and provide smarter, more cost-effective government. One of the county departments that is hemorrhaging tax dollars is the county jail (MCCI). The sheriff…

  • Facts show that New Jersey teachers make a good salary

    Sandra Talarico’s salary defense (“Managing Editor’s Column Is Going After the Wrong Individuals,” Tri-Town News, Letters to the Editor, March 4) requires a response. The intent is not to defend Greater Media Newspapers Managing Editor Mark Rosman, the person Ms. Talarico referred to in regard to his column on the need to cut educational costs.…

  • Money for facilities upgrade was put in place years ago

    With regard to a recent article that was published in the Tri-Town News and titled “Sides Play Hardball Over Softball Upgrades,” I am curious to know if (Jackson Township Council President) Mike Kafton truly believes his own statements? To say that Jackson Mayor Mike Reina is “undermining planned improvements for a girls softball facility” is…

  • Aid cut will lead to tough choices

    JACKSON — Administrators in the Jackson School District were still working earlier this week on a budget for the 2010- 11 school year. The Board of Education was expected to introduce a tentative budget at a meeting on March 23. No information about the 2010- 11 budget was available prior to that meeting, which occurred…

  • It’s gonna be expensive, no matter how you define it

    Coda • GREG BEAN As former President William Jefferson Clinton famously explained during his 1998 grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinski affair, “it depends on what the meaning of is is.” In other words, in politics, it all depends on your definition. We’ve got a little of that going on in New Jersey these…

  • New youth advisory group to be council’s ‘eyes & ears’

    HOWELL — Applications for membership on the fledgling Youth Township Government advisory committee will be accepted through April 16, Township Councilman William J. Gotto announced. “We are actively looking for a very large number of participants,” Gotto said this week. Howell’s newest youth program will have three advisers — Gotto; resident Robert Nicastro; and Township…