Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: Last week, the HoLa Dual Language Charter School ran a prominent advertisement in the Hoboken Reporter, publicly urging the Hoboken Board of Education to drop a lawsuit. In light of this, it is appropriate for the public to know what is actually happening. First, there is no lawsuit against HoLa. Instead, the Hoboken …
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Dear Editor: I am a 5th grade student at HoLa. I have learned so much in the last 4 years and I don’t want that to stop now. Every year my Spanish is more fluid, so by 8th grade I could speak Spanish like it was the first language that I learned. I love HoLa …
Dear Editor: In response to the “Battle over charter’s expansion goes to court” story (4/20/2014): Award-winning HoLa Charter School has been named in a lawsuit by the Hoboken Board of Education. That’s right: this board of Ed has filed suit—at taxpayer expense! Against one of its own schools. Here are the facts about HoLa Charter: …
Dear Editor: Helicopters have descended upon Hoboken like a swarm of noisy locusts. They begin early in the morning and continue flying until early evening. They are so loud that I can hear them from my residence on 14th Street as far away as the World Trade Center. They fly up and down the Hudson …
Dear Editor: I remember many, many years ago when the FBI raided many elected officials from our county and cities. One such person was former Mayor Peter Cammarano. He was recorded by the FBI and sent to prison for a few years. He made a mistake, paid for his mistake, and, I believed, learned from …
Dear editor: In his March 23 Letter, Sgt. Eric Garrison (USAF, retired) praises Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of Great Britain, as a “human rights hero” for his and NATO’s intervention in Kosovo 15 years ago. Mr. Garrison then goes on to mention that Tony Blair was involved, along with President Bush, in the invasion …
Dear Editor: A former Kids First supporter, I am particularly disappointed by the Hoboken Board of Education’s decision to ‘go to the wall’ in continuing to oppose my son Luke and his classmates at HoLA. I had believed Dr. Gold’s and the Board’s fervent opposition to have been based on principle. However, with recently divisive …
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Dear Editor: The past 30 years has seen a great transformation in Hoboken. There have been many notable improvements, particularly at the waterfront. But there has also been a very nasty downside: the pushing of about 10,000 residents out of their homes, both tenants and small property owners by a variety of means including arson …
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Dear Editor: For most of the last century, Hoboken was a bustling port city and maritime industries flourished on its waterfront. But by the 1980s, the ocean liners, merchant marines and ship repairers had nearly all disappeared, leaving an abandoned, derelict waterfront. As a result, Hoboken was provided a once-in-a-century opportunity to transform its riverfront …
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Dear Editor: Whose bright idea was it to cut down the old bushes surrounding the beautiful square at Church Square Park? Not only are the bushes gone but the quality of care to the park has completely degraded over the years to the point where there is spilled and messy paint jobs and missing garden …