Opinion
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March 13, 2025
Wrong Direction
The U.S. is becoming a third world country under our current leadership.
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•March 13, 2025
Removing Barriers to the Great Outdoors for All
Sean Kane-Holland is on a mission to make parks and trails more accessible for everyone. As access nature disability advocate at Pinelands Preservation Alliance, he has evaluated dozens of trails…
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•March 12, 2025
Touched By Angels While at the Beach
The two men sat, leaving enough space at the edges to grab in case they slipped from their chosen perches. Neither could move very proficiently yet, having only recently gotten the soft planes that…
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March 12, 2025
Handle With Care
My father, John Francis Harvey, was a man of resilience, dedication and unwavering commitment. Like many fathers and grandfathers, he served in World War II, joining the U.S. Army at just 17. He…
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March 12, 2025
Restaurant Plan Too Intensive for Harvey Cedars
Our town of Harvey Cedars is one of the quieter towns on LBI, with the perfect mix of commercial and residential. In fact, for a town that is only about 2 miles in length, we have seven eating…
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March 12, 2025
Scary for Shore
I am writing to express my concern about withdrawing funds from Medicaid in the House budget bill.
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•March 11, 2025
Riders on the Storm Brave Harshest LBI Weather
The winter season has now been fully thrust upon us with intense storms, high winds and plunging temperatures replete with ice and snow. Real winter living on the Island allows us to experience and…
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March 5, 2025
Hot Button Issue
I confess that I need AC to sleep on the hottest days of summer. My electric bill for one summer month in 2024 was $700. With a 20% proposed increase, that means in the summer 2025 it will be $840…
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•March 5, 2025
Mercy, Love, Kindness, Grace Are Biblical and Not Political
This past week, while at worship, I heard a member of the preaching team share a moving sermon on mercy. Forty-nine years ago during my first interview with a church’s pastoral search committee, one…
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March 5, 2025
Go Green
Green Drinks just marked its 10-year anniversary at The Mainland. The group meets on the first Tuesday of each month, 5:30-7:30. Join us Tuesday, April 1 for the next gathering.
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March 5, 2025
Peaceful Transition
On Saturday, Feb. 1, my wife, Sandra W Smith, had a stroke. She received excellent care at Southern Ocean Medical Center. However, the stroke proved to be terminal.
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•February 27, 2025
Vaccine-Autism Issue Finally to Get a Complete Examination
In February, autism took new steps toward its long-awaited place at center stage in America. Maybe there is new light dawning on this insidious affliction that for a quarter-century has grown at a…
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February 26, 2025
Teacher’s Advice
I read and reread the Feb. 19 Commentary (“Get on Board the Trump Train: Country Is on the Right Track”). I had many ideas for a response. The column was typical of the MAGA crowd.
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February 26, 2025
Headline Faux Pas
The SandPaper’s headline on John Imperiale’s smart exposition about the pitfalls of Trump’s hubris at taunting statehood for Canada seems not to capture the subject, tone or theme of what he wrote…
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•February 26, 2025
K-9s Deserve Same Support as Human Counterparts
I grew up with dogs and brought them into my young family as soon as we had settled in one place. We have had them as part of our family ever since. My children now each have dogs as part of their…
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February 26, 2025
Separate Church/State
I am writing in support and agreement with resident Claire Edelstein’s remarks at the Feb. 4 Barnegat Township Committee meeting (“Heated Debate Marks Opening of Town Hall,” 2/21).
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•February 19, 2025
Uh-Oh, Canada: Can We Drop the Ridiculous Distractions?
Some may take it as a negotiating tactic. Some may see it as a Swiftian “modest proposal” thrown out there to show how a measure of absurdity can sometimes provoke real thoughtful analysis of an…
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February 19, 2025
Match Sealed on LBI
My granddaughter, Alison Christie, and her boyfriend, Sean Catteral, from London, were recently on Long Beach Island. The couple now live in Brooklyn. Ali was transferred to Amazon in London, where…
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•February 19, 2025
Betting Big on That Long Beach Island Breeze
I’m typically not much of a gambling gal. Except for an annual trip to A.C. for some slots fun, an occasional lottery ticket scratcher, or a rare small wager in a family sports pool, I hesitate…
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•February 13, 2025
Get on Board Trump Train: Country Is on the Right Track
Last Nov. 5, American voters went to the polls and exercised their rights as citizens to choose the individual they believed was best qualified to be the 47th U.S. president. Republican Donald J.…
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February 13, 2025
Stop Musk
Think about all the ways your government protects and provides for you: aviation security, national defense, Social Security and Medicare, disease control, food inspections, your passport and so much…
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February 12, 2025
Spreading the Warmth
Kiwanis of LBI has completed the ninth year of our “Happy Feet” new sock project. We are deeply grateful for the incredible support, generosity and service of our LBI community, mainland communities…
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February 12, 2025
Failure to Represent
My neighbors and I have been discussing why we bother to have taxpayers associations for LBI. Their main objective should be to represent all the homeowners on the Island in the face of any state…
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•February 12, 2025
No Trivial Pursuit: Games Are Seriously Fun
I am a games person. In the summer I play senior softball three days a week. I always come in either first or second place (there are only two teams each day). I play duplicate bridge twice a week.…
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February 12, 2025
Pile of Crazy
In 1946 the U.N. General Assembly unanimously voted to declare genocide a crime. It defined genocide as the intentional destruction of a national, racial, religious or ethnic group.
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February 12, 2025
Any Wonder?
This country, by electing President Trump, has served notice that, we the people, are no longer happy with the direction this country has taken on the immigration issue. We also are concerned and…
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February 12, 2025
Threats to Democracy
I take pen in hand and write because when democracy in the U.S. is threatened by an autocratic president who wants to be a king you have to respond. You can’t remain silent, even if it falls on deaf…
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February 12, 2025
Leadership, Not Control
Our nation has become chaotic and it shows. We have drifted away from God. Our freedoms, democracy, rule of law, even the very soul of our nation are at risk and in danger. Instead of our leaders in…
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•February 6, 2025
The Folly of February: Can We Wipe It Off the Calendar?
If you’re reading this, you’re frozen. Done. Stranded. It is February, the most dismal, depressing month of the year and here you are, trapped in one of the coldest winters LBI has lived through in…
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February 6, 2025
Dangerous Labs
There are people in the U.S. who want Americans to be afraid of new viruses and bacterial infections that have appeared over the last 35 years or so. Unfortunately, a crucial factor is almost always…
