Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Friends and Neighbors: We are all adjusting to a dramatic tax increase, brought about by years of fiscal mismanagement. For those of us who call this city home, whether we’ve lived here a few years or our entire lives, the tax hike is painful. As someone who’s lived in Hoboken for 25 years and …
Continue reading “Mason: Why I voted for Church Towers abatement”
Dear Editor: This is my opinion about the parking situation in Hoboken: Dear Municipal Court of Hoboken (or whoever you are): First, I would like to say that your city has the best extortion plot going in all of New Jersey. Not only do you ticket a car but you have the audacity to boot …
Dear Editor: The suggestion to ban the St. Patrick’s Day Parade from Hoboken is an utterly absurd gesture. This parade celebrates the traditions and pride of the Irish American people. Punishing any group, whatever race, creed, religion, sex or national origin is against all American principles There are absolutely no evidences linking the founders of …
Dear Editor: Last year I went to the Hoboken St. Patrick’s Day Parade with my wife and twin boys and was enjoying the Irish heritage I am so proud of and hope to pass on to my sons. The bagpipers and the parade were awesome until my boys had to go to the bathroom, and …
Continue reading “Hoboken St. Pat’s Parade needs some ‘tweaking’!”
Dear Editor: I have seen the city of Hoboken do some questionable things during the time that I have lived here but the recent installation of parking meters on Sinatra Drive is at the top of my list for the most foolish. Do the people who create the parking regulations in Hoboken actually live in …
Continue reading “Parking meters on Sinatra Drive are ridiculous”
Dear Editor: Please support Theresa Minutillo, Ruth McAllister and Maureen Sullivan, the Kids First slate, for Board of Education. They will bring much needed fiscal responsibility and transparency to the BOE. We as Hoboken residents and taxpayers should be appalled to see programs such as Hola being promoted by current members of the Board of …
Continue reading “Kids First will keep a careful eye on your school tax dollars”
Dear Editor: Because I am a mom of a Wallace School first-grader and because I am a taxpayer whose first quarter 2009 Valentine from City Hall made me rethink whether I can afford this town anymore, I will be voting for Kids First 2009 ticket: Maureen Sullivan, Ruth McAllister and Theresa Minutillo. Not only that, …
Continue reading “I’m a mom and I support this school board ticket”
Dear Editor: It has been reported that I am collecting signed petitions to run for mayor. Oddly enough, these reports are entirely true. To that end, here is an update to those entirely true reports: I’d like to invite anyone interested in this year’s Hoboken mayoral race to visit my web site at http://tomvincentformayor.org On …
Dear Editor: I enthusiastically support and will campaign and vote for Dawn Zimmer as the next Mayor of Hoboken. Dawn will make an excellent Mayor and will energize and expedite the transformation that is needed to get our City back on track. She will restore fiscal responsibility and work to reduce the tax burden on …
Dear Editor: I am writing to the Hoboken Reporter to express a special thank you to Bill Bergin, the Hoboken Public Safety Director, for all his help on March 7, 2009, the day of the St. Patrick’s celebration in Hoboken. Situations were getting a little out of hand on the corner of 6th and Garden …