Former mayor sounds off on proposed budget       Recently I received our estimated 2008 tax bill. I read the enclosed letter with interest as Mayor Acropolis defended his 9.6- cent rate increase by blaming others. Wasn't it just a year ago that I proposed a 12-cent increase and was told by Anthony Matthews that it was absurd? A year later, Coun... More ... Nurse practitioners almost as qualified as doctors       I am writing in regard to the July 24 Brick Bulletin article "Walkin clinic to help shave health care costs." I would first like to state that I have supported Mayor Acropolis in the past and always will in the future, but I feel from the comments that he made in the article that he is not fully ... More ... Reader takes issue with regular letter writer       I am completely disgusted with this Art Sholty person, whoever he is. He needs to stop with his religious preaching and quit with the Bible quotes. His letter in the July 17 Brick Bulletin is again an endless rhetoric of BS. Who cares if he's losing respect for Brick Councilwoman Kathy Russell? T... More ... Safety a cause of concern for hip-replacement patient       In a few weeks I am scheduled for hip replacement surgery. Though I trust my doctors and know the procedure is fairly routine, I still can't help but worry a bit. Through the Patient Safety Act of 2004, I was able to find out that nearly 460 incidents of preventable medical errors occur in New Jer... More ... Act now to stay in open space race       New Jersey voters have repeatedly raised their own taxes to preserve the state's dwindling open spaces and natural lands. But New Jersey is now in danger of running out of preservation funding for the first time in decades. The Legislature must act before mid-August to place an open space ballot q... More ... For every bad person there are 15 good people       I've come up with a new blessing: For every bad person you encounter, I wish you 15 good ones. This is what happened to me last Thursday evening. I was coming out of the New Egypt IGA (it will always be called that in my house) with some ice cream and lottery tickets (my husband had a rough day a... More ...