Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: This town has become very bike friendly. Not a day goes by where I don’t see a bicyclist break traffic laws. I have witness them driving the wrong way on a one way street, running stop signs, running traffic lights, weaving in and out of traffic, and flying on and off the sidewalk. …
Continue reading “Here is my concern for the mayor and the city council”
Dear Editor: This letter is in reference to John Heliker’s letter in the Nov. 24 issue. Starting in the 1990s local politicians justified the alarming rate of development by promising “ratables”, or additional tax revenues from these projects. This pie-in-sky excuse was always a blatant lie, which is why we no longer hear politicians using …
Continue reading “In reference to John Heliker’s Nov. 24 letter”
Dear Editor: The following is an open letter to Mayor Dawn Zimmer from Valarie H. McPherson Dear Mayor Zimmer: As a resident of Hoboken and parent of 2 children in Hola, I am publicly requesting that you show your support of Hola by submitting a letter to the Department of Education supporting both the renewal …
Continue reading “‘Hola is a reason to move to Hoboken and to stay in Hoboken’”
Dear Editor: At the November 12th Hoboken Public School Board meeting, parents of children enrolled in the HoLa Charter School spoke in favor of expanding their school district by two new grade levels. Why were parents from HoLa speaking at the Hoboken Public School district meeting? Because the Hoboken public school district superintendent, Dr. Mark …
Continue reading “Funding one school district at the expense of another”
Dear Editor: John Heliker, in a letter to the Reporter (Nov. 24), is worried that the ongoing tax-revaluation is just another plot by City Hall to bilk taxpayers, not being content with booting cars and writing parking tickets to raise money. Heliker is right to be worried, considering where taxpayer money goes. Here’s one place: …
Dear Editor: It was recently the time of year when campaign signs appeared all over town in places where they are permitted, and occasionally where they are not. The United States Supreme Court noted in City of Ladue v. Gilleo that “residential signs have long been an important and distinct medium of expression” and a …
Dear Editor: Oct 2, 2013 it was reported that West New York Mayor Felix Roque was acquitted of federal hacking charges. Many people were glad to see the mayor acquitted, and on the other hand many people were hoping he would be ruined. I think it is pitiful and shameful when public figures in general …
Continue reading “Voting is best defense against local corruption”
Dear Editor: I asked this question of the Hoboken Board of Education a few years ago, but didn’t receive an answer. So I’ll ask again. We go into the polling place, we give our name and address to someone at a table with a big book in front of them. The person finds our name, …
Dear Editor: Now that rent control regulations have withstood the latest assault by the developer/real estate interest group Mile Square Taxpayers Association (MSTA), it would be good to make note of what happened because MSTA will do it again. MSTA is the Hoboken branch of an operation that has made a profession of decimating rent …
Dear Editor: Hoboken Girl Scout Troop 12402 would like to thank the American Legion post 107 and The Knights of Columbus for hosting us at a celebration of Veterans Day last Friday. John Carey, the new Commander of Post 107, brought in an active duty Colonel (Col. Joel Branosky, Member of the Knights of Columbus), …