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Find a better way

to manage wildlife

Regarding the June 19 editorial, "Goose removal program/Pests not pets":

While I see how geese, deer and other wildlife can become nuisances, I do not understand why those in charge have not come up with a better way to manage the size of the populations.

It is said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Well, isn't that the way our wildlife is managed? If there are too many deer, geese or whatever, kill them. But the populations come back up again.

We have even added coyotes to the list of animals we should be killing, when coyotes could help keep the number of deer and geese down. So would foxes, raccoons and other animals that would eat the eggs and the young.

It is the 21st century and time to stop the insanity and find a better way to manage our fellow creatures on Earth. All of them.

TONI STRANSKY

Galloway Township

New revenue could have

helped the mentally ill

State legislators should have considered using the unexpected $400 million in additional state revenue generated by a tax-amnesty program to help New Jersey's vulnerable citizens who have been devastated by the loss of their homes, jobs and savings.

Utilizing only a small percentage of the unanticipated money to bolster services for individuals with mental illness could have had a tremendous impact on the well-being of those struggling to cope with the economic downturn.

By allocating $20 million, the Legislature could greatly improve treatment and services for individuals with mental illness. Such a small investment would save the state much more in the long run by reducing demand for more expensive crisis services and helping individuals get back on their feet, ready to care for their families and contribute to their communities.

DEBRA L. WENTZ

Chief Executive Officer

N.J. Association of

Mental Health Agencies Inc.

Mercerville

Gary Papa's death

deserved Page One

It's a disgrace that you had only a small paragraph in the middle of the sports section June 20 about WPVI-TV sports anchor Gary Papa's death.

Gary came into our homes for almost 30 years, like Harry Kalas, and really made you feel like you knew him personally. The Press blew a great chance not only to tell a relevant story, but to pay tribute to a man who lived his life in a way that we all could learn from.

This kind of story deserves front-page status. Did you really think people in this area were going to be more interested in "Google Street View maps Penn campus," which did run on Page One that day? Are you kidding me?

GLENN ROTHSTEIN

Ventnor

Change the channel

on 'Nurse Jackie'

Regarding the June 17 letter, "'Nurse Jackie' insulting to nurses":

As a recovering drug-addicted, alcoholic nurse who has been clean and sober for almost 25 years, I, too, was sickened after watching the first episode of "Nurse Jackie."

There is nothing at all funny about any person who is addicted to drugs and/or alcohol - let alone an impaired registered nurse with a bad attitude and a lot of inappropriate behavior to go along with it.

Trust me, there was absolutely no laughter at the funerals I've attended over the years of the physicians and nurses who died as a result of substance abuse. "Nurse Jackie" demeans everything my colleagues - all registered nurses - stand for. I am urging everyone I know to change the channel and let Showtime know this isn't entertainment.

JEWEL COOPER

Egg Harbor Township

Use tax-amnesty funds

to pay down N.J. debt

New Jersey just collected $400 million more than expected from a tax-amnesty program. The governor plans to use the money for property-tax rebates. Gee - right before the election.

My advice would have been to use the money to pay some of the state's debt first and not use the money as a political carrot. Meanwhile, maybe the governor should call the president and suggest he do a tax amnesty on the federal level.

DANIEL FEDELI

Margate

3 comments:

• todfiat (0) posts 11:05 am

  Why does Toni Stranksy, frequent letter-writer, think that coyotes will keep the excess animal population down, without also eating toddlers and pets, just like mountain lions and bears do in the western U.S.? Does she think the coyotes are trainable? Will she somehow induce them to restrict their killing to specific species? What a stupid remark by her. All the herds must be culled, by hunters and natural predation. To ignore the coyote population - as NJ has done with the black bear - just replaces one problem with another, with children and pets dying in the process. Not for nothing do ranchers out west lay poisoned bait for the coyote nuisance.

• Yugocif (92) posts 7:47 am

  Jewel: It is television - no different than the silly show "House."

• rightwing (62) posts 7:44 am

  a pervert died yesterday,yea.yea. media is making him out to be a saint. HE SLEPT WITH LITTLE BOYS. HE WAS A PEDOPHILE. the world is better today than it was yesterday. im glad hes dead. i hope it was painful. he was deranged and insane, look what the fruitcake did to his own body. june 25 should be a holiday.

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