Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: I was not scared of all the witches, zombies, and assorted goblins wandering about on Halloween. What really scares me is the meat industry. This is the industry that: Mutilates, cages, and butchers billions of cows, pigs and other sentient animals. Feeds carcasses of cats and dogs killed in pounds to chickens. Exposes …
Dear Editor: I became mayor at a very difficult time for our City. Our newly elected mayor had been arrested for taking bribes just 21 days into his term. We were subject to state fiscal supervision. Our public Hospital, backed by a $52 million taxpayer Bond guarantee, was failing. And we had just endured a …
Dear Editor: This Tuesday, Nov. 5 is a critical election for our city’s future. Aside from the multiple state elections, you have the opportunity to change the direction of our city’s leadership: Mayor, City Council, and Board of Education. Mayor and City Council-At-Large: Our community continues to face many quality-of-life issues; parking and flooding being …
Dear Editor: It has been a long and difficult four years for Hoboken. At the very start, the Zimmer Team, which I am proud to be a part of, inherited a City under state fiscal supervision with a budget overspent by over $12 million and a failing hospital losing $1 million a month, secured by …
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Dear Editor: We just passed the one-year anniversary of hurricane Sandy and many people are still hurting. I know others who’ve suffered worse, but my family was sure hit hard. It has been difficult but we are trying to rebuild while making my family’s home storm resistant and we’re still months from returning to our …
Dear Editor: For weeks now I have read a steady stream of letters from the same four or five HFHA individuals who have always opposed any and all changes to rent control. Let me correct the record on several points that they consistently, and erroneously, trumpet as truths. Firstly, their claim that the request to …
Dear Editor: Rent control is complicated; there are plausible arguments on both sides. Most economists assert rent control actually raises rents for new tenants. But even so, Hoboken’s population has nearly doubled since I moved here in 1981. You see the crowding for busses, backed up traffic, and jammed parks. Is making rents a little …
Dear Editor: It has been my great privilege to serve on the Hoboken Board of Education since 2009. I am proud of the accomplishments of the Board during these years, and I am honored to have played a role in moving the district forward. I have served on the Governance, Finance, Curriculum and the Athletic …
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Dear Editor: As a resident, business owner and parent in Hoboken I have a sincere interest in the upcoming election. I’ve had the opportunity to get to meet the challengers and I appreciate their accessibility. I have tried to meet and speak with other candidates but could never penetrate the gauntlet that surrounds them. In …
Dear Editor: I first met Mayor Dawn Zimmer and Councilman David Mello in 2006, when we, together with several of our neighbors, were part of the Steering Committee of the original Southwest Parks Coalition. None of us were involved in politics back then. We were just a group of Southwest residents who wanted to make …