Barham deserves to be freeholder director
      Despite an editorial challenge by a Western Mon-mouth newspaper to block Bill Barham as freeholder director, he was returned by a new bipartisan board, and rightly so. The freeholders recognized Director Barham has done a good job for years at all levels and deserved the directorship for 2007.
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Review of state's graduated driver license program is needed
"This bill ... would empower New Jersey to enhance the state's GDL law, giving it teeth by allowing a complete reassessment of teen driving laws …"
      That three more teenagers have died while driving New Jersey roads is becoming all too common morning reading. The most recent deaths occurred on the afternoon of Jan. 10 in Monmouth County. Perhaps excessive speed was a cause, perhaps not. Perhaps the teen driver was violating Graduated Driver License (GDL) provisions, which govern when and with whom teenagers may drive.
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Mundane problems deserve mayor's attention, too
      It always makes me chuckle to see Marlboro Mayor Robert Kleinberg boasting of his corruption busting. It really only amounts to opening file cabinets for the feds, perhaps with a single bound.
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Transfer of affordable housing called into question
      Bringing the subject of affordable housing commitments into forums for a discussion of techniques in consort with "back door" politics is long overdue. Nurtured through Regional Contribution Agreements (RCA), its questionable agendas have created a need for RCAs to be reviewed through corrective legislation.
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Dems cut Rutgers budget, jump on football bandwagon
      State Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex) has, in print, urged Rutgers University to fund six Olympic sports that are due to be eliminated in 2007. This was done after the Democratic-controlled state Legislature reduced Rutgers' support by $66 million.
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Resident wants answers about new Marlboro cell tower
      In June 2005, the Marlboro Township Council, without contacting any of the affected local residents and businesses, approved the construction of a 168-foot tall cellular tower in the Union Hill Road commuter lot and unbeknown to a vast majority of residents, construction began in July 2006.
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World's problems challenge all of us to seek solutions
      Mark Rosman, in his In the News column, ("There Is More to Life Than Problems in the Rain Forest," News Transcript, Jan. 4, 2007) bemoans the fact that his children are not learning in school about problems close to home. I think he is missing the point that "problems in the rain forest" cause problems locally - in air quality and weather changes.
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Committeeman has no reason to slam appointments
      As (Manalapan Township Commit-teeman) Joe Locricchio searches for answers as to why he was uninvolved in the Township Committee's selection of professionals, he need look no further than the mirror. The Township Committee interviewed professionals at a public meeting and Mr. Locricchio chose not to attend. Mr.
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