More options needed to avoid drunken driving
Many college students and other adults normalize drunk driving. Driving under the influence is unsafe for the driver, passengers and for others on the road.
About 1,825 college students lost their lives to drunk driving, additionally millions of students occasionally drunk drive. Due to the normalization of driving under the influence, there have been high rates of drunk driving accidents across the country.
Parties are a huge component of the ideal “college experience,” which comes with being around intoxication and participating in it. Parties shouldn’t always mean drinking, but it happens. There should be transportation put in place for college students who are going to parties, so “Who's driving?” will never be a question again.
Currently, I reside in Atlantic City, where a lot of college parties and club functions occur that many people have interest in regularly. Even in the casinos, players drink regularly. The roads of Atlantic City are not safe, so to ensure safety, there needs to be more transportation options for times like this.
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Drunk driving is a topic that has not been heavily talked about on college campuses. And even though we’re all adults, should “know our limits” and “know not to drive,” Atlantic City should have more options of transportation as a “mini Las Vegas,” where drinking is normal but made safe.
Jeaniyah Burns
Atlantic City
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More can be done to make offshore wind work
After reading the Atlantic County executive’s op-ed about offshore wind, it is apparent that New Jersey needs an action plan for moving offshore wind forward. There is much need to maximize its environmental and economic benefits while addressing the concerns of opponents. Research and experience suggest any plan consider several points to ensure offshore wind works for everyone.
To address whale deaths, it is necessary to lower the speed of vessels off the New Jersey coast by deploying acoustic buoys for ensuring compliance, as other states and countries such as California, New Zealand, Chile and Greece are doing. To protect commercial fishing, offshore wind companies must be required to track and share all data on fisheries and be prepared to compensate commercial fisheries for any negative impacts. New Jersey should ensure that the benefits of the offshore wind supply chain be distributed throughout every county in the state. Additionally, New Jersey should partner with other states deploying offshore wind to ensure that the states are working in a complimentary, not competitive, way. Finally, a joint research partnership between Rowan and Stockton Universities should be created to continue to monitor, improve, and innovate this economic ecosystem in an environmentally sustainable way.
Extremism and partisanship may score electoral points but only shows that we are hostile to innovation and oblivious to economic and environmental decline. It is time that New Jersey leaders, especially those in Atlantic and Cape May counties, take a serious, non-partisan approach for this transformational project.
Joseph Ingemi
Hammonton
Offshore wind will protect Jersey Shore
Donate food to letter carriers
The 32nd annual Letter Carriers Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive will be held this Saturday, May 11.
This is the largest one-day food drive in the nation. It takes place in over 10,000 cities, towns and rural areas across the country as well as in Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands. It is a joint effort between city and rural letter carriers, along with the United Stated Postal Service and national food drive sponsors such as the UFCW, AFL-CIO, CVS, Valpak, Valassis, Kellogg, Vericast and United Way.
In 2023, letter carriers, represented by the National Association of Letter Carriers, along with rural carriers, collected over 80 million pounds of food and donated it to local food banks.
As president of Branch 370 Atlantic City of the National Association of Letter Carriers, I’m urging people to donate. Simply fill the provided grocery bag with healthy, non-perishable food and set it by your mailbox Saturday morning to be picked up. Donations will be sorted and taken to local food pantries to feed the hungry.
Gregory Kilar
President, NALC Branch 370, Atlantic City