Category: Tri-Town Opinion
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Coda
In Trenton, the lunatics are running the asylum Greg Bean I think I can finally render a professional diagnosis: All the legislators in Trenton are clinically insane. There’s a quote variously attributed to Albert Einstein, Rudyard Kipling and Rita Mae Brown that says, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting…
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Your Turn
Politicians have little incentive to change David Finkelstein Guest Column David FinkelsteinGuest Column It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every bachelor of arts, that all sin is divided into two parts. One kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very important, and it is what you are…
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Are We There Yet?
She’ll get no sympathy from this little bunch Lori Clinch When the children are sick, I do my personal best to nurse them back to health. I cancel appointments, rearrange my schedule, and stand guard as I wait at their beck and call. “Get some rest,” I’ll tell them as I kiss their brow, “and…
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River deserves highest level of protection
The League of Women Voters of Ocean County would like to inform Ocean County citizens that Gov. Jon Corzine and Commissioner Lisa Jackson of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection have been petitioned to designate the Toms River as a Category 1 (C-1) waterway. This designation is among the highest level of protection that…
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Jackson school board must deliver tax relief
The Jackson Board of Edu-cation keeps trying to fool the taxpayers, year after year, into coughing up more money for “education.” They keep forecasting a fictitious (phony) number of new students that are expected to enter the school system each new year. Enrollment increases in the last three years have dropped to less than 60…
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Those who donate an organ should have chance to receive one
Christopher Ennis (“Friends Will Rally for Baby’s Family,” Tri-Town News, Feb. 8) was very lucky to get a heart transplant. Over half of the 94,000 Americans on the national waiting list will die before they get a transplant. Most of these deaths are needless. Americans bury or cremate about 20,000 transplantable organs every year. Over…
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Former Howell official is glad that his name has been cleared
Six weeks ago the Asbury Park Press, but not this newspaper, printed an article about a domestic violence complaint and a request for permanent restraints that my former girlfriend filed against me, a matter that ought to have remained private. I promised that I would be cleared of any alleged transgression and I am happy…
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School officials report C wing is safe for use
BY DAVE BENJAMIN Staff Writer BY DAVE BENJAMINStaff Writer JACKSON – The C wing at Jackson Memorial High School has been given a clean bill of health. “With the start of the new semester at Jackson Memorial, construction work for the remainder of the school year is complete and students and staff have returned to…
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Coda
Is the nest ever empty when it’s full of junk? Greg Bean My wife and I are now officially empty nesters, but when the last child left recently to take an out-of-state job, we came to a shocking realization: You can’t have an empty nest when the chicks leave all their junk behind to clutter…
