Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear editor, Every 70 seconds, someone develops Alzheimer’s disease. As many as 5.3 million people have the disease, and it’s the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and fatal brain disease that destroys brain cells, causing problems with memory, thinking and behavior severe enough to affect work, …
Dear Editor: Hoboken is special. It’s true. Consider the “special options” we residents have for parking, driving and walking here. It’s like nowhere else. Here are just a few examples: You can park with relative impunity: 1. In the “no parking” yellow zone at most corners, sometimes in a crosswalk. 2. Closer than 10 feet …
Continue reading “To park, drive and walk all ‘special’ in our town”
Dear Editor: As the new school year begins again, so too does the daily flow of hundreds of children walking to and from class. I would like to take this moment to remind everyone about the importance and responsibility we all have to make sure that their safety, as well as that of all other …
Dear Editor: We have a little less than one month and counting to get the word out all across this great land and into every community in the United States of America. The program: On Friday, September 11, 2009, an American flag should be displayed outside every home, apartment, office and store in the United …
Dear Editor: Perhaps, amidst the Hoboken hubbub this past month, you were walking around uptown and happened upon the Uptown Farmer’s market, held every Thursday, 3-7:30 p.m. on Hudson St. between 13th and 14th St. It seems to be what many uptown residents have been waiting for and it will continue through mid-November. There are …
Dear Editor: Two years ago, I wrote letters regarding the helicopter air traffic along the Hudson River. As waterfront residents, my husband and I were very concerned about our safety. At that time a helicopter had crashed into the river in Weehawken near where we live. Thankfully, no one was seriously injured. However, a real …
Continue reading “Helicopter safety over the Hudson has been ignored”
Dear Editor: Our nation is in the grip of a raging debate over reforming a grossly misnamed “health care” system that threatens to bankrupt our economy. In 2008, U.S. medical costs reached $2.4 trillion, or 17 percent of our gross domestic product, growing at an astronomic annual rate of nearly 7 percent. That’s $8,000/person, or …
Continue reading “Each of us can exercise a great deal of control”
Dear Editor: You recently reported in all editions of the Hudson Reporter that work has begun on a $9 billion dollar trans-Hudson passenger rail tunnel for the ARC (Access to Region’s Core) program. It is appalling that NJ Transit and the Port Authority are allowed to squander billions of dollars on this poorly designed tunnel …
Dear Editor: To All Hobokenites: Yes, Mr. Soares as you said in a letter in last week’s Reporter, I did in fact address the council Aug. 5, but it had nothing to do with my being “criticized on the ‘blogs’.” For those interested in the facts you can see and hear exactly what I said …
Continue reading “Let’s drop the trash talk and move Hoboken forward”
Dear Editor: In last week’s Hoboken Reporter, Theresa Burns responded to my letter to the editor (8/15) regarding the BOE’s progress to date. She claims that the BOE savings did not amount to the $1.97 million that I substantiated in that letter to which I give Ms. Burns the following retort: You obviously did not …