Secure funding to start replacing the water lines today

Dear Editor: If youโ€™re like most people in Hoboken, youโ€™ve been stocking up on bottled water, or boiling huge pots of it before drinking or cooking with it. The unfortunate reality is that this time-consuming ritual is becoming too common for Hoboken residents, and according to a recent NBC-4 story, SUEZ engineers say Hoboken residents …

Incompetence and ignorance can destroy historic buildings

Dear Editor: Since no one living today has constructed a Gothic or Romanesque church and since todayโ€™s architecture is built with the bottom line in mind, using quick and cheap methods and materials which do not usually have a great sense of old world craftsmanship and fine quality workmanship in mind, how could the construction …

First Women in Leadership Empowerment Forum was a success!

Dear Editor: Thursday November 19, 2015 was an amazing day! The Hoboken Board of Education in conjunction with the AAUW held the first Women in Leadership Empowerment Forum at Hoboken High School. All girls in 7th through 12th grade in the Hoboken Public Schools and all 8th grade girls from the charter and private schools …

Donโ€™t be left out โ€“ the time to sign up for health insurance is here

Dear Editor: Do you have health insurance? More New Jerseyans than ever before do. Over a 30 month period since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) opened the federal insurance marketplace and expanded Medicaid, the uninsured population decreased by nearly half across the state. As striking as this may sound, these gains still fall short of …