Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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State Legislature must act now to stay in the open space race
New Jersey voters have repeatedly raised their own taxes to preserve the state’s dwindling open spaces and natural lands. But New Jersey is now in danger of running out of preservation funding for the first time in decades. The Legislature must act before mid-August to place an open space ballot question before voters this November.…
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Speaker praised for taking RCA issue out of the courts
Over the past week we have heard many predictions of destruction and doom with calls for resistance from towns vowing to fight the recent legislative action to ban Regional Contribution Agreements (RCA) – the loophole in our fair housing law that for two decades allowed New Jersey’s wealthiest towns to pay poor communities to take…
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In some marriages, there’s nothing like a close shave
GREG BEAN Coda Today, as part of my occasional series of columns on marital relationships, I’d like to discuss an issue of some interest to both sexes. Specifically, I’d like to talk about shaving. More specifically, I’d like to talk about men’s razors, and men’s territorial interest in keeping them to themselves and keeping them…
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At home, where the buffalo still roam
LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? The other day as I stood in the midst of the filth that we call home, a child appeared before me. He was wearing a faux buffalo hat. Don’t ask me why he was wearing the faux buffalo hat. I can’t explain it anymore than I can explain the…
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As time goes by…
AMY ROSEN Around Town As time goes by… As I sit here relaxing at the beautiful Jersey shore watching my youngest son and his friend challenge the waves, I look around and can’t help but reflect upon things. No matter how calm I might be, my mind is always working. That’s the stuff that columns…
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A trip to old Brazil
MARK ROSMAN In the News When I consider the current state of affairs in New Jersey, I am reminded of the final scene in one of my favorite movies, director Terry Gilliam’s "Brazil." After Sam Lowry, a bureaucrat who has found himself in a heap of trouble with his civil service bosses, is tortured…
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Time for education assoc. to reconsider its public relations position
I read with great interest … and disappointment … the antics of the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) in their recent picketing of the congressional offices of state Sen. Jennifer Beck in Red Bank, as well as state Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (Middletown) and state Sen. Sean Kean (Wall Township), all Republicans, in protest of the…
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They’ve got a ‘hotline,’ but nobody ever answers
GREG BEAN Coda Hold on while I dust off this trophy I’ve got sitting on my desk. OK, here we go, and if we could have a drum roll, please. The Greg Bean Corporate Jackass of the Month Award goes to (pregnant pause) CONRAIL! I know I’ve been pretty hard on a few companies in…
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Nothing as scary as a middle-of-the-night call
LORI CLINCH Are We There Yet? In another week or so, I’ll be 44 years old. That age might bother the youthful. Yet, I like this time in my life. You see, my knees may not bend as smoothly as they used to, and my face is filling with wrinkles, but for the first time…
