Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: The centerpiece of my Freeholder campaign earlier this year was to push for an independent performance audit of county operations, so that we can get a road map for achieving cost savings. This year, Hoboken was hit with a 14.5 percent county tax hike and Jersey City was hit with a 5.8 percent …
Continue reading “Phil Cohen updates the community on efforts to control Hudson County taxes”
Dear Editor: As a concerned long-time homeowner in Hoboken, I’ve been researching alternatives to what is happening in our city with the proposed reassessment following our recent reval. While I don’t question the need for a reval after 25 years, I do question the way the reval was handled (and as evidenced by the hundreds …
Continue reading “There are alternatives to the ‘rolling reassessment’”
Dear Editor: Next week, President Obama will pardon two turkeys to promote the turkey industry. Every one of us can exercise that same pardon power by choosing a nonviolent Thanksgiving observance. It’s a most fitting way to give thanks for our own life, health, and happiness. The 240 million turkeys killed in the U.S. this …
Dear Editor: There seems to be no bottom to the Board of Education’s determination to hurt the city of Hoboken by trying to hurt Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa). For the past eight months, the Hoboken school board has spent tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to try to shut down HoLa, …
Dear Editor: I have delayed writing this letter because I continue to be stunned, dismayed and saddened by a recent event and the responses, reactions to it that followed. On Tuesday, Oct. 21 a line began to form outside of the Elks Club on Washington Street. Folks were sitting there in chairs, as if preparing …
Dear Editor: I am writing to express my deepest appreciation to the voters of Hoboken for entrusting me to serve another three years on the Board of Education. Weeks of knocking on hundreds of doors, hosting meet and greets in lobbies and attending various events around Hoboken, gave me the opportunity to speak to so …
Dear Editor: In the end it was the political machine, with support from the Mayor, City Council President, other City Council members and 6 of the 9 Board of Education Trustees that secured seats on the BOE. It was money (big money) coupled with political support for an incumbent from Council Members, the County Freeholder …
Dear Editor: The reason for this letter is to persuade you to join our school, All Saints Episcopal Day School, to ban the bag. According to reuseit.com, 1 million plastic bags are used every minute worldwide. Plastic bags cause pollution to the environment, can be health hazards, and can be a hazard to infants. California …
Dear Editor: The Hoboken Early Childhood Advisory Council (HECAC) is a group of parents and community volunteers who are active participants in the assessment of needs and resources, as it pertains to the implementation of high quality preschool through third grade programs. HECAC enlists, promotes, and supports collaboration between the Early Childhood Education Program and …
Dear Editor: Smooth and safe traffic flow requires that impediments to that flow be minimized. The proposed Washington Street redesign presented at the Oct. 8 City Council meeting includes “curb extensions”, i.e. expansions of the sidewalk into the street that come in two flavors: painted with a pebbly surface, or concrete. Aside from the problems …
Continue reading “The Trouble with Washington Street – Part 3”