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    Save judicial independence in N.J. New Jersey Law Journal Last month, the governor announced that he would not reappoint Justice Helen Hoens to the New Jersey Supreme Court, but would instead nominate Judge Faustino Fernandez-Vina, the Camden County assignment judge, to fill her seat. Shortly thereafter, Senate President Stephen Sweeney announced that the Senate would…

  • Vote Bengivenga, Stahl, Goldhamer in fall election

    A ssemblymen Peter Barnes and Patrick Diegnan have done nothing but hurt the middle class in Trenton. Now that it’s election season, they are putting out literature about how they are on our side, but their record of voting for 115 new tax increases paints quite a different picture. Spread out over the calendar, that…

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  • New drug approved for pancreatic cancer

    I was excited to learn that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the chemotherapy drug Abraxane to treat metastatic pancreatic cancer in combination with gemcitabine, another chemotherapy drug. This is the first new treatment to be approved for pancreatic adenocarcinoma, the most common type of pancreatic cancer, in nearly eight years. With a…

  • Public servants not always to blame

    I am writing in response to Rabbi Dr. Bernhard Rosenberg’s recent letter to the Sentinel (“Political, Legal Changes are Needed,” Sept. 4), and in particular to his statement that he would think “most of us are fools because we allow public servants, politicians, etc., to receive huge pensions while we and our families all struggle.”…

  • New Jersey’s ‘Silicon Shore’

    By SUZIE XIE Staff Writer From transistors to radio transmissions, New Jersey has been a stronghold of emerging technology. But can the state compete with the likes of Silicon Valley in California? Entrepreneur Avi Karnani thinks so. The founder of startups Thrive and Churnless, Karnani said Silicon Valley and New Jersey are similar in terms…

  • Ex-Middlesex County sheriff sentenced to nine years in jail

    Former Middlesex County Sheriff Joe Spicuzzo has been sentenced to nine years in prison for running a jobs-for-cash scheme. The 68-year-old Helmetta resident was sentenced in state Superior Court in Monmouth County on Sept. 20 after pleading guilty over the summer to a charge of accepting $25,000 in exchange for a job in his office.…

  • Metuchen’s 50th Country Fair expected to be a ‘Golden Jubilee’

    By JACK MURTHA Staff Writer METUCHEN — From generation to generation, attendees of the Metuchen Country Fair have been served a taste of that classic hometown feel. The Metuchen Area Chamber of Commerce will host the fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 5 in downtown Metuchen, at the intersection of Main and New…

  • Local practitioners hold positive position on yoga

    By JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer Students at SaKula Yoga Studio in Metuchen take on the “three-legged downward-facing dog” pose. Long gone are the days when yoga was reserved for swamis and spiritual seekers in India. Having made its way west, the practice has become popular with everyone from fitness freaks to chronic-pain sufferers to those…

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