Category: Hoboken Letters

Dear Editor: On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 the Hoboken High School Hispanic Culture Club held its 1st Annual Hoboken High School Hispanic Heritage Celebration and Hoboken High School Hispanic Culture Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. We would like to thank the inaugural inductees to the Hall of Fame: Ms. Luz Durando, Mr. Ruben Gonzalez, Mrs. …

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Dear Editor: It brings me great enthusiasm to acknowledge that through their diligent work and dedication, the Hudson Reporter staff members won awards from the Memorial Journalism Contest, sponsored by the Garden State Journalism Association. These awards were well-deserved, as all of you have outstanding ethics and abilities to go with your great responsibility: keeping …

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Dear Editor: Last Tuesday, President Obama directed federal agencies to serve antibiotic-free meat and poultry in government cafeterias. The FDA will require animal producers to obtain authorization from a licensed veterinarian to use drugs to treat a specific disease, rather than just to promote rapid growth, as is current practice. As much as 80 percent …

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Dear Editor: On May 8th, at a hearing which I attended, Hudson County Judge Patrick Arre overturned both the Hudson County Planning Board’s denial of Applied’s application for the proposed Monarch development as well as the subsequent Board of Chosen Freeholder’s denial. Effectively, the Judge found that both Boards’ decisions had insufficient technical reasons to …

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Dear Editor: When you go to the beach …. This summer don’t forget the sun screen. And, don’t forget the young men that went to the beaches of Normandy, France some 70 years ago. They didn’t go with sun screen to sun bath on Utah Beach. Nor did they go with swimsuits to swim at …

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Dear Editor: Thought experiment: What if Mayor Zimmer declared that the city needed to save money in the parking enforcement budget, so every weekend she would install jersey barriers in parking lanes on the north and west sides of every city street. Available parking would be reduced by half. When asked why, she’d shrug and …

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Dear Editor: The Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) was founded in 1986 when residents of Bloomington, Indiana, rallied around a toddler who needed a life-saving liver transplant. In less than eight weeks, the community raised $100,000 to place the boy on the organ waiting list. But the child died before an organ became available. Those …

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Dear Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank the OLG Choir for their performance on Sunday, May 17 at the Veterans service at the community church. They were just great. They were under the direction of Dr. Merry Naddo. Thank you, Roy Huelbig

Dear Editor: As any Hoboken resident knows, our City is one of the most public transit oriented communities in the nation. With services including PATH, NJ Transit trains, buses, and ferries, Hoboken is a prime transportation hub. Over 50 percent of our residents rely on these services for travel to work and home, especially senior …

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