Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: My name is Jim Doyle, and I am running for City Council with incumbent councilmen Ravi Bhalla and Dave Mello on Mayor Zimmer’s slate. I am writing to introduce myself and ask for your support. For the past 26 years, my wife Leah Healey and I have lived in Hoboken. We have watched …
Dear Editor: To paraphrase Jim Carville: The City Council election is about the Zoning Board, stupid! The Zoning Board of Adjustment (ZBA) decides whether or not giant buildings get built in Hoboken. Five seats on the 11-member ZBA are vacant because the City Council hasn’t appointed replacements. Three more expire at the end of this …
Dear Editor: The positional ethics displayed by Dawn Zimmer’s group of pseudo-reformers has always been a marvel. As if a Delphic Precon Minority Report was ignored, everyone associated with my good friend Peter Camarrano has been repeatedly tried and convicted in the court of “Guilt By Association,” but the entire Zimmer Administration, including bloggers, defend, …
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Dear Editor: I write to express my surprise by the Hoboken Reporter’s story last week concerning Councilman Ravi Bhalla. The story related to Ravi’s decision to participate in a unanimous vote to re-appoint an attorney, Paul Condon, so he could continue representing the city in an ongoing matter. The DCA advised Ravi that because he …
Dear Editor: On Nov 5 Hoboken citizens will vote to choose a mayor and city council and school board representatives and to decide the outcome of a public question. Voters will cast their ballots under the time honored assumption that their votes will democratically determine which candidates will be elected and whether changes to the …
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Dear Editor: Here are 20 reasons to not vote for Dawn Zimmer in November: 1. Did not resolve flooding – never created a pump – not even 1 2. Did not reduce property taxes by 25 percent 3. Did not create affordable housing 4. Fewer police on street 5. Has never supported the local businesses …
Dear Editor: It seems impossible to believe that we’re still fighting over the valid results on Hoboken Public Question No. 2 (HPQ No. 2) in last November’s election. Mile Square Taxpayers Association (MSTA), a group of developers, hired mercenary lawyers, outsiders with no connection to Hoboken, our vibrant community made up of divergent cultures and …
Dear Editor: The independents school board candidates, Brian Murray, Vanessa Falco, and Patricia Waiters, have joined to together as the Better Schools Now ticket. As parents who work and live in the community, we have a plan to fix the broken school system and great incentive to do so. Our plan centers around five main …
Dear Editor: My name is Eduardo Gonzalez and I am running for City Council-At-Large because I want to continue making Hoboken an even better place to live. I am a first generation Cuban-American and ever since I was a child, I was taught to give back and participate in my community. My family escaped a …
Dear Editor: Flooding, over-development and fiscal responsibility are the three issues that should decide the 2013 Mayoral and At Large – City Council – races. To address flooding we need to build flood pumps, flood barriers and underground flood water detention systems. We also need to make good zoning and planning board decisions that account …