Dear Editor: Portions of the front page of your last issue certainly proves this city is moving forward (vacancy decontrol aside.) Thanks to many past and present elected officials, community activists, The Hoboken Waterfront Corporation, two successful referendums in the early 1990s and most certainly the outstanding work of The Applied Companies. In contrast, your back pages proved that the publishers and editor of this paper need to take a closer look at what their mission with the letters page is. If there is a mission at all. Letters ranging from attacks on the hard working and often struggling residents of the Hoboken Housing Authority, insinuations about the Italian culture and a letter that implied negative innuendos about someone’s personal life achieve nothing. Especially if the mission of this publication is to inform, insight or entertain your readers and promote your advertisers. I would like to suggest that from now on The Hoboken Reporter newspapers adopt a policy that prohibits all racial, ethnic or personal attacks on regular citizens. However, that would be censorship. Therefore, a moderate solution that would simply require the author’s full name and telephone number and possibly address to be published along with their letter. This way free speech still reigns and those wishing to respond can go right to the source of this venom. Again I deplore censorship. However, I do think it’s high time an effort is made to discourage letters that rip apart the cultural fabric of Hoboken and hurt the private citizens of this great city. Anthony “Tony” Soares Councilman at Large PS: To all city workers, the longevity issue is not dead. Ruben Ramos, Dave Roberts and myself simply had to stop the vote from passing to make sure you are all treated fairly and past practices of disbursement were legal.