Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: As a school board trustee, this is the time of year that we say good bye to winter and begin to look forward to the end of year celebrations of our children’s success. This year we have a new event kicking off the celebration season. On March 31, close to 20 Hoboken High …
Continue reading “Stevens assisting in Hoboken High School student success”
Dear Editor: I’d like to know how many parked cars were damaged by hit and run drivers over this weekend. All six cars parked on the north side of 2nd Street between Harrison and Marshall were struck. Driving around Hoboken Sunday morning March 8, I must have seen at least 50 side view mirrors missing, …
Dear Editor: The problem is…no structure. There is no structure to this parking problem when their absolutely needs to be structure. On any given night I can count on my block and the surrounding blocks, on average, two to four parking spaces per block that would have been available if people just used common sense …
Continue reading “Parking lines: Part two of a three part letter”
Dear Editor: As if the Zimmer Administration isn’t wasting enough taxpayer dollars fending off endless lawsuits, this administration continues to defend Councilman Ravi Bhalla from a violation adjudicated by the Local Finance Board. The facts. At the February 17, 2010 council meeting, Bhalla voted to award a no bid contract to Paul Condon. Prior to …
Dear Editor: I woke up this morning midway in a dream. I was in an old garage in Jersey City near the Grove St. Station. It had been converted into an apartment. It was a pretty unappealing apartment, but as the tenor of the block and people on it set in I exclaimed this is …
Dear Editor: City of Hoboken lack of essential services Council of the City of Hoboken: I would like to see a property tax credit for the lack of garbage services in Hoboken. Residents are having to take it upon themselves to clean their streets that have not been cleared in months. The county has been …
Dear Editor: Last Saturday, was the annual Hoboken St. Patrick’s Day. Everyone knows that the day brings thousands of young adults to our city to attend our bars and restaurants. This year saw police respond to 382 calls for service, make 11 arrests, issue 95 city ordinance summonses, issue 34 motor vehicle summons, and send …
Continue reading “St. Patrick’s letter from the Chief of Police”
Dear Editor: Over the years, we have worked with Mayor Zimmer and the Hoboken City Council to implement a long-term solution to flooding, save our hospital, open new parks, promote balanced development, significantly reduce municipal taxes, and much more. However, the great progress we have seen in Hoboken hasn’t happened by accident. Good government requires …
Continue reading “Community leaders seek Democratic Committee Representatives”
Dear Editor: As the founder of the NJ Tech Meetup and proud Hoboken resident, I am writing to express my strong support for Stevens Institute of Technology’s application for the development of the Academic Gateway Complex, to be located on Hudson and Sixth Streets. My relationship with Stevens began approximately 5 years ago when, as …
Continue reading “It’s time for The Innovation University to be allowed to innovate”
Dear Editor: Every once in a while a new technology comes along and destroys the old way of doing things, hence the collapse of the local licensed taxi driver. Uber is making the taxi extinct just like the car did to the horse and buggy. Uber’s technology is not going to go away but rather …