Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: As the school year ends, both of our children busily plan for their summer after high school and college beyond. But as we look ahead, nervous and excited for our kids, I can’t help but also reflect back on how we got to this point. I wrote in these pages two years ago …
Dear Editor: If you don’t already know, the “Friends of the Loew’s” (FOL) is a group of volunteers who have given their time to rescue the beautiful and historic Loew’s theater in Jersey City (JC) from extinction and make it available for movies and other events. Now FOL is being betrayed by the JC Fulop …
Dear Editor: Hoboken High Class of 2014 advisers would like to thank the following people for making the senior prom fashion show and their senior year a huge success: Hoboken Education Association, CarePoint-Hoboken University Medical Center, Barnabas Health-Jersey City Medical Center, Bayonne Community Bank, Ms. Emily Pontious, Ms. Sharon Malenda, Doug MaCauly and the Media …
Dear Editor: The great American patriot Thomas Paine once wrote, “These are times that try men’s souls.” His words today are more meaningful than ever. The famous words of Nathan Hale, a 21 yr. old school teacher about to be hung, “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” …
Dear Editor: Last Thursday evening, the Hudson County Board of Freeholders approved a $512 million budget that raised Hoboken’s County taxes by 14.5 percent. The biggest piece of the Hoboken tax bill has gone up 14.5 percent. Before the freeholders voted, I took the microphone and spoke out against this budget as unfair to Hoboken’s …
Continue reading “Hudson County just raised Hoboken’s taxes by 14.5 percent!”
Dear Editor: To the graduates of the Class of 2014, we are writing this letter to you as our last official correspondence. Like all good things, our journey has come to an end. Yet, your journey has just begun. We, your advisers, are grateful. We want to thank you for allowing us to share in …
Dear Editor: This summer don’t forget the sun screen. Also, don’t forget the young men that when to the beaches of Normandy, France some 70 years ago. They didn’t go with sun screen to sunbathe on Utah Beach. Nor did they go with swimsuits to swim at Omaha Beach. They went with backpacks loaded with …
Dear Editor: Last Nov. 5, 2013 had been a bitterly cold day of a long winter. It was Election Day and it was going to be a long and stressful day for anyone that worked hard on that day to get the word out for some issue or candidate that was on the ballot. The …
Dear Editor: As a Councilperson, I take my job very seriously. I believe one of my obligations is to support every school, every child and every family in Hoboken. Especially when I am lobbied to for support, as was the case. I fully understand both sides of the issues regarding charter schools. However, I have …
Continue reading “Sending the wrong message to our children”
Dear Editor: The ever increasing presence of bicycles on the sidewalks of Hoboken is a danger, especially to the elderly and the very young, that will inevitably result in serious injuries. Pedestrians have limited mobility on narrow and constricted sidewalks and have little or no warning of bicycles that are on a collision course. The …
Continue reading “‘Bike friendly’ doesn’t mean without regard to others”