Debate should be about health, not morality
      In considering whether to make a vaccine that immunizes girls against human papillomavirus (HPV) mandatory, lawmakers should decide solely on its merits for protecting the public health. Instead, the issue seems to have been partially obscured by some flimsy arguments about parents' rights.
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For the Record
      Middletown Township refinanced about $2.77 million in bond debts last year, producing an unspecified savings. Among the savings expected from refinancing this year, the swim club's debt service was reduced by about $11,000. No new debt is presently being issued by the township, according to T...
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Your Turn
Time for Bayshore to stand up to overdevelopment
John Curran Guest Column
      The current owners of the historic Van Mater homestead situated on the corner of Stone Road and Poole Avenue in Hazlet Township have recently presented conceptual drawings to the Hazlet Planning Board proposing the construction of a high-density residential condominium development at that...
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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 a ...
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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 remember, Mommy loves!
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