Efforts recognized during National Volunteer Week
      In our busy lives, nothing is more valuable than time. It follows that volunteers - people who chose to give their time to make this a better community - are very valuable indeed. Fewer than one-third of adults give their time through volunteer work, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service.
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Who is really profiting from oil prices?
      According to records, crude oil consumption needs that this country imports from the Middle East are 23 percent, with 30 percent coming from other sources outside the U.S. Therefore, 47 percent of our oil needs come from our own wells and 24 percent of that comes from federal lands.
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Prepare now to help save stray and injured animals
      When you see stray or injured cats or dogs on the street please don't pass them by. They need your help. Be prepared for animal emergencies by keeping a road-rescue kit in your car.
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Closing state parks a bad idea
      Gov. Jon Corzine says he wants to see more green in New Jersey, the kind that grows on trees and absorbs harmful carbon from the air. To do that, the state needs more of the other kind of green to pay off our state's massive $32 billion debt.
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Media focus should be on vets, not Spears, Hilton
      With America entering the sixth year of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our television news which includes CBS,ABC, NBC as well as their cable affiliates mentions the number of dead which recently hit 4,000, but fails to report the plight of the thousands of wounded, some critical lying in military and veterans hospitals.
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