Where's the help for N.J. small businesses?
      The financial crisis that began on Wall Street and spread to Detroit and corporate America has officially found its way to Main Street. The tsunami battering our economy has now breached the largest and most important segment of our economy — America's entrepreneurs.
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Bring history back into Monmouth County's schools
      Back in the early 20th century no high school education was complete without a senior class trip to George Washington's home, Mount Vernon, Va. Those pilgrimages are documented in the Monmouth County Historical Association's archives with photographs from the 1920s of Freehold High School senior classes posed on the lawn at Mount Vernon.
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Racetrack slots would provide much-needed revenue
      What are the issues that matter to New Jersey residents? Time and again, voters have supported open space initiatives on the ballot. In these difficult economic conditions, new revenue sources are desperately needed.
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Breza Road parcel not nearly a dud
      I am writing in response to the letter from Patrick Nolan in the March 5 edition of the Examiner that called the Phase II Breza Road preservation a dud. While I hold the same concerns as Mr. Nolan regarding the level of the pollution found at the site and the remediation measures proposed by the landowner, in no way is this a "deal Upper Freehold Township can afford to miss.
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