Organ donors should be first to benefit
      Regarding your June 26 article "Pre- and Post- Transplant Patients Offered Support," Stanley Epstein was very lucky to get a heart transplant. Over half of the 99,000 Americans on the national waiting list will die before they get a transplant. Most of these deaths are needless. Americans bury or cremate about 20,000 transplantable organs every year.
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Horse racing industry must ban whips now
      Jockey Jeremy Rose was recently suspended from racing for six months after whipping a horse so severely that her eye hemorrhaged. Anyone who watched the Kentucky Derby could see Eight Belles being whipped down the homestretch before she collapsed with two broken ankles.
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Illegals are responsibility of their governments
      Illegals are exactly that, lawbreakers. What is all of the nitpicking about? If they want to live and work here, they have to abide by our laws. They have to be documented and proceed with the process of becoming legal. This means paying taxes and obeying the laws of the United States. Paying sales tax is not paying taxes. They must also pay for medical care.
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State Legislature must act now to stay in the 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 question before voters this November.
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Speaker praised for taking RCA issue out of the courts
      Over the past week we have heard many predictions of destruction and doom with calls for resistance from towns vowing to fight the recent legislative action to ban Regional Contribution Agreements (RCA) - the loophole in our fair housing law that for two decades allowed New Jersey's wealthiest towns to pay poor communities to take their affordable housing.
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