Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: I would like to submit this letter as a public service announcement for the taxpayers of the City of Hoboken. As you may know, May 1, 2014 is the deadline for registering an appeal of your Property Reevaluation. As you review your current property assessment, I think it’s important to note that the …
Dear Editor: Can it get more interesting? Who would have thought, less than a month after Inauguration Day, Hoboken residents would be treated to the dissonance of reading Dawn’s Hoboken Reporter interview, affirming no causality between lack of a gubernatorial endorsement and Sandy Relief Funding, while, watching Dawn on MSNBC accusing her “BFF” of not …
Dear Editor: For over 20 years a dedicated group of volunteers has put in countless hours restoring the Loew’s Theater in Journal Square in Jersey City, from near total wreck to a glorious community space. When I have attended events that they have organized there was a sense of community and good will that is …
Dear Editor: Last night I returned to my vehicle to see that my car was “booted.” This happened at 12:28 a.m. After looking at the sign, I am still unaware of what I had done wrong or illegal in parking my car upon my visit to Hoboken. I had arrived at my car at 12:33 …
Continue reading “Hoboken leaves people stranded in sub freezing temperatures 8 hours plus”
Dear Editor: We applaud Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer and her staff’s continuing efforts to increase recycling in Hoboken with their recent initiative to install public space recycling bins along Washington Street and Pier A. These recycling bins will not only help keep our streets cleaner, they reduce our waste sent to diminishing landfill space and …
Dear Editor: Even if one was not disheartened by the voting atmosphere that has permeated past Hoboken elections, Dean De Chiaro’s front page article in the Feb. 23 Hoboken Reporter entitled “Hoboken’s legacy of vote-by-mail schemes” would raise legitimate concerns about voting in any future Hoboken election. In all of my 27 years in Hoboken, …
Dear Editor: Providing internet to low-income families won’t improve educational standards of children. Local school districts, cable companies, and technology companies are working hard to market a new “technological advancement” to provide educational tools to low-income families via high-speed internet services. Yesterday, Forbes announced a new public relations campaign by Khan Academy and Comcast to …
Dear Editor: I read last month in the Star-Ledger newspaper that State Senate President Steven Sweeney, Leader of the New Jersey State Senate stated that if Governor Chris Christie tries to renege on a $ 2.4 billion payment to fund the state pension system in his proposed budget for the 2014-2015 fiscal year he would …
Continue reading “Closing down state government may not be the best option, but the only option”
Dear Editor: As chairman of the Republican Governors Association Governor Christie has recently traveled to Texas, Florida and Illinois to raise money for G.O.P. candidates. Sadly not a single candidate has had there picture taken with him They all seem to run from him as if he were radioactive. Now some of those Governors are …
Dear Editor: On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Surgeon General’s first report on health hazards of cigarette smoking, his office released a report linking smoking to several new chronic diseases. These include diabetes, erectile dysfunction, cancer of the colon and liver, and stroke, in additional to the well-known links to lung …
Continue reading “‘Our health remains our personal responsibility’”