Opinion
County passed the buck to Northfield taxpayers
Written by Larry Carlson Wednesday, May 22, 2013 06:04 pm
To the editor:
As a Northfield resident for the past 30 years, I, along with many other long-term residents can attest to the poor condition Tilton Road has been in almost since the days of the Mr. Big department store.
The planning for the upgrading of infrastructure, reconstruction and then repaving of this vital county artery and business pathway has been on the drawing boards for years now, and Northfield residents and business owners alike have endured these long years maneuvering through a patchwork of filled potholes, the flooding, and the congestion while patiently waiting for relief.
McDevitt opponents unmasked
Written by Seth Grossman Tuesday, May 21, 2013 04:16 pm
To the editor:
For more than two months, the full resources of the Atlantic County Republican Party have been unleashed to destroy the reputation and political career of Atlantic County Freeholder Joe McDevitt.
McDevitt is not only a fellow Republican, but one of the most popular, conservative, and respected public officials in the county. Yet he has been hit with incredibly dishonest attacks on Facebook, radio, mass mailings, robo-calls, and even on TV.
Colleges, universities need to know the law
Written by Opinion Wednesday, May 08, 2013 05:59 pm
To the editor:
The University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth is in the news. It should be of no surprise since one of the suspects of the Boston bombing is a registered student there and three other students have been arrested for crimes associated with interference of a federal investigation.
The University of Massachusetts is following in the misguided footsteps of the University of Colorado (Aurora theater shooting); Penn State University (sexual abuse scandal); and Virginia Tech (33 dead).
Superstition hurts us all
Written by Opinion Wednesday, May 08, 2013 05:50 pm
To the editor:
The amount of superstition being reported on as legitimate news is appalling. Can we not do better than a grand social plan of conflagration?
Superstition hurts us all. The reason why – other than we no longer medicate with mercury or ride horses to town – is that superstition is at odds with education. Denial of humanities’ scholastic achievements or worse; the use of them selectively serves only those who would divide us.
Cornerstone property would be bike path to nowhere
Written by Opinion Tuesday, February 05, 2013 03:09 pm
To the editor:
You gotta love those Linwood Council members. They profess their conservative fiscal philosophy wherever they go by proclaiming that through shared services, employee cutbacks, layoffs and attrition they are holding the line on property taxes, and that may very well be the case. However, when it comes to spending the money of other taxpayers, they have no problem splurging on what has to be one of the most glaring examples of wasteful public spending: the acquisition of part of the Cornerstone property under the unbelievable guise of providing an extension of the bike path.
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Election is a step in the right direction
Written by Opinion Tuesday, November 13, 2012 02:03 pm
To the editor:
Although the right man was chosen for president last week, there is no need to gloat for those of us who voted for him and the ideas that he represents. If not for the turnout of ethnic and racial minorities to overcome voter suppression and for the self-inflicted damage caused by the party of economic royalism and religious hypocrisy (essentially greed, privilege and ignorance wrapped in the flag, Bible and rosary), we may have been well on our way back to the Stone Age – or 1984.
Watch out for mold
Written by Opinion Monday, November 12, 2012 05:56 pm
To the editor:
Mold seems to be a topic of conversation with the aftereffects of Hurricane Sandy, which was so aptly named. Today I saw men standing outside a building that has been empty in my town for several years. It used to house people on a temporary basis who were vacationing in the area. It made me think of an empty building in another local community that has stood empty for years also. It used to be a building that housed children in classroom settings. With everything we know about mold today, would these buildings be considered hazmat sites? Enter at your own risk.
Marian R. Carlino
Somers Point
Somers Point residents waging war on trees
Written by Opinion Monday, October 22, 2012 04:51 pm
To the editor:
When did we become such a fearful people? Whence came the notion that it was possible, or even good, to eliminate all risk from our lives? The citizens of Somers Point are waging a war on trees, a war motivated by fear.
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