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1. Elder care: Communication often at issue with elderly parents
(Health/Healthquest)

... and death at almost 92. My father drove until he was 88 and voluntarily stopped after having a near accident. AARP has a refresher course and can evaluate ability. If you think her driving is unsafe, ...

2. Global warming means UNPREDICTABLE events and costs -
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... happen in a 100 year storm. Or even a 300 year one. Its only prudent because bluntly, politicians often tend to underestimate problems and the costs of addressing them. (They don't like to be bearers ...

3. Tax time brings out creativity: Making those numbers work
(Life/Style)

... The IRS agreed with them. In other family news, if you happen to use a babysitter on the day that you volunteer for charity work, you can deduct the cost of the babysitter. Other family expenses, those ...

4. Bret Schundler: Q&A with the New Jersey Commissioner of education
(Opinion/Commentary)

... him, charging that he lacks the constitutional authority. That said, Governor Christie and New Jersey's school boards have both requested that New Jersey's education unions voluntarily give up this year's ...

5. Job-hunting advice … Life after a Gannett newspaper
(Money/Economy)

... your age." Janice Miller started at the paper in 1984, and had three different jobs there — including administrative assistant to the sports editor. She left the paper for good in 2002, voluntarily, ...

6. Holocaust Remembrance Day not only honors the dead, but looks to the future
(Life/Style)

... their testimonies. A group of trained volunteer interviewers was to be mobilized to do those interviews around the world. I admit it — I foolishly thought I was already pretty qualified since I'd become ...

7. Millionaires for higher taxes are wrong
(Opinion/Commentary)

... prosperity-less government at home and abroad, less taxes, and sound money to increase wealth so we the people can support charitable institutions in the true spirit of philanthropy-voluntarism. Murray ...

8. Be a master naturalist or environmental steward in N.J.
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... the Garden State so they can share it with others. Stockton has launched a Volunteer Master Naturalist program in partnership with the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Atlantic County. ...

9. ‘Addams Family’ musical succeeds as a crowd-pleaser
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  So it wasn't much of a surprise that the audience at a preview for "The Addams Family," which bowed Thursday at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, enthusiastically clapped in rhythm to the sinister six-note ...

10. Laurence Harbor cleanup plan won't come until 2012
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... playing in the sand? Probably yes," he said. "Is it fishermen eating the fish? Probably, yes." EPA will follow the usual Superfund procedure of seeking volunteers for a community advisory group while ...

11. Good bet a Republican will be next governor of Pennsylvania
(U.S./Nation)

... his victory a foregone conclusion. "I like the trend," Corbett said with a grin. He is a soft-spoken and measured politician who presents a clear contrast with the gregarious and often blunt Rendell. In ...

12. REAL results of restoring adoptees' access
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... order to protect the 6% (or less) of birthparents who desire no contact? Do the Defenders believe it is right to charge adoptees a search fee (usually hundreds of dollars) to do what volunteer search ...

13. Clarifying the bs in comment 1
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... go on saying that all Cops and Firefighters are ignorant deuches, which you are implying. I've seen firefighters, anywhere from volunteer to paid. They do things you would not dare to do. I have seen firefighters ...

14. Christie again criticizes teachers for refusing to support his cuts in education aid
(N.J./State)

Governor says administrators, support staff have accepted pay freezes in 115 districts Staff in at least 115 New Jersey school districts have voluntarily accepted a wage freeze or reduction, though ...

15. Marijuana starting to look like a new revenue source for states
(U.S./Nation)

... signatures for a medical marijuana ballot initiative. It was a home-grown effort, drawing 40 volunteers, almost no national attention and no funding from major marijuana policy groups. Reistroffer, a Sioux ...

16. Clarifying the bs of political language
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... like Bronx, Camden or Newark & greater suburbia like Bernards Township. I understand a $100,000 cop in Newark, in Bernards is an abuse. Same for the Fire Dept & EMS & the volunteer contingency & the ...

17. Social Security Trust Fund
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... Social Security benefits. But it doesn’t work that way. Not a single dime of payroll tax revenue has ever been saved and earmarked for the payment of future benefits. To put it bluntly, the government ...

18. NJ Bear Hunt
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... shoot the bears on sight at any time of the year will solve the problem. Or gee, since these bears are so cute and cuddly maybe you and you friends could volunteer to adopt 10 or 12 bears and bring them ...

19. Cancer patients helped with ‘Look Good … Feel Better’ program
(Health/Healthquest)

... to group workshops and a one-on-one session with a professional stylist for makeover, makeup therapy. That's where Kristin Siivonen, a New York makeup and hair stylist, comes in. Siivonen volunteers ...

20. Time to address rescuing Social Security and Medicare
(Opinion/Commentary)

... again. If the collapse of 401 retirement accounts has taught us anything, it is that George W. Bush's notion to turn Social Security into a voluntary retirement plan is just too unstable for our ...