Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Fed will reform credit card industry, but there’s a catch
Coda • GREG BEAN Ialways laugh at those movies where the loan shark sends out a leg breaker like Rocky Balboa to collect on unpaid debts. In those movies, you get the idea that the loan sharks are always named Sal, and the people late with the payments are always down-on-their-luck alcoholic gamblers and degenerates…
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The spirit of giving
In the News • MARK ROSMAN Ah, the holidays. They bring out the best in people. The spirit of giving. Goodwill toward men. All that jazz. It is that holiday spirit that brings us to two members of the New Jersey Assembly — Democrat Reed Gusciora of Mercer County and Republican David Wolfe of Ocean…
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Adult responsibilities cannot always be measured by a person’s age
This letter is in response to Deborah C. Gumpper’s letter to the editor (“Decision Is Needed on What Constitutes an Adult in New Jersey”) in the Dec. 18, 2008, issue of the Tri-Town News. Ms. Gumpper pointed out some of the legal inconsistencies in using 21 as the legal age for alcohol consumption while using…
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Resident says raise for superintendent was out of line
As a mother of children in the Jackson school district and as a taxpayer, I find myself dismayed by recent developments concerning our schools. The teachers in this district are long ignored when it comes to compensation due for their effort toward educating our children. It appears to me that longtime Board of Education members…
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Organization is proud to operate Jackson Food Pantry
On behalf on the Jackson Women of Today, we would like to thank the Jackson and surrounding communities and businesses for their support of the Jackson Food Pantry. The Jackson Food Pantry was founded in 1987 and is funded and run by the Jackson Women of Today. We are honored to continue this service to…
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Board members erred in raising superintendent’s pay
Recently, entrenched incumbents of the Jackson Board of Education, Marty Spielman and Marvin Krakower, had the nerve, arrogance and utter disregard to vote yes for extending the already lucrative contract of our superintendent of schools. Not only did this contract extend the years of employment we taxpayers are stuck with this superintendent who has under-performed,…
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A gift for the man who has too much — a manscaper
Coda • GREG BEAN My friend Butchie Rawlins may have been the hairiest human being in the history of the world. For starters, he had a full head of thick, curly, black hair, but that was only the beginning of the wonder. His beard began coming in when he was 13, and it started high…
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For the Record
A Howell resident who teaches at Old Bridge High School has been suspended from her job without pay. Lisa Glide, 35, was charged Dec. 3 with second-degree sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child. News of Glide’s suspension from her job was not reported in an article in the Dec. 11 Tri-Town News…
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Someday, everyone will have their day
Around Town • AMY ROSEN Iknow that every day of our life is special, no one has to tell me that, but apparently there are a lot of people who feel the need to do that anyway. They give the days and weeks special names, and I don’t mean Monday, Tuesday, etc. They have taken…
