For Memorial Day, honor those lost in Vietnam from N.J. county | Letters
Posted May 18, 2021
Memorial Day was established as a national holiday to honor the ultimate sacrifice that the men and women who wore our country’s uniform made to ensure our freedom.
I’ve been rereading John “Soup” Campbell’s book, “They Were Ours, Gloucester County’s Loss in Vietnam,” which pays tribute to the 44 county men who died serving our country during the Vietnam War. Campbell’s book devotes a chapter to each man to tell about his upbringing, his family and friends, and how his life ended. The late Bob Shryock, a longtime
N.J. cannabis license roadblocks discouraging | Letters
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I am a cancer survivor, a patient and an applicant since 2019 for a retail marijuana dispensary. I have become increasingly frustrated with New Jersey’s cannabis regulatory climate.
My friend Will Sirois, who is part of the Bloom Wellness venture, recently lived in California. He was accustomed to a state that has ample cultivators and dispensaries to supply a full-fledged recreational market. Here on the East Coast, we are far behind. At the current rate, it will take years to build up to a sustainable market. With the trajectory we’re on, things are not very promising.
There’s a science to understanding why they don’t teach this in N.J. | Letters
Updated Apr 04, 2021;
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I am a physics teacher in this state, and I wholeheartedly endorse the view that more space science should be taught in our schools. However, I think the authors Charly Castillo and Sruthi Suresh, two high school students with strong science backgrounds missed some important information that could add perspective.
As few as one in three physics teachers in this country has a background in either physics or physics education, based on a 2014 report by the American Institute in Physics. Most teachers, then, are non-specialists who teach this subject because the demand is comparatively lower than for some other courses. The AIP report states that fewer than half of American students take any physics course.