Council meeting resembles Jerry Springer show
     Mayor Edward McKenna and Councilman Pasquale Menna's plot to frame John Curley for their tax increase turned the last meeting of the Red Bank Council into a sickening version of the Jerry Springer show. Their transparent ambush of Curley was curiously held just prior to McKenna's release of our bloa
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Return to civility in boro governance needed
     For those of us who had the misfortune of witnessing the sheer bedlam that took place during last Monday's borough council meeting, it has never been more obvious that a change in the culture of Red Bank's local governance is desperately needed if it has any chance of returning to its mandated missi
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Jazz concert will help fight privatizing of fort
Judith Stanley Coleman Guest Column
     The first director of our National Park Service once wrote that our "national parks must be maintained in absolutely unimpaired form." But last year an Interior Department political appointee tried to rewrite the NPS management policy - de-emphasizing what he criticized as the NPS's "anti-enjoyment"
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Return Red Bank to best interests of the people
     I was disgusted by the most recent show of political shenanigans put on by the Red Bank Town Council. Removing John Curley as chair of the finance committee because of the failure of the chief financial officer is ridiculous. If anyone is made responsible for the actions of the chief financial offic
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