Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: The residents of Hoboken might not be aware of the 24/7/365 safety protection that they are afforded by our excellent protection teams. I found out how well the system works on Thursday, August 8th, when I returned home in the afternoon to find a suspicious 5-gallon can sitting on my front stoop. At …
Dear Editor: For so many, learning to ride a bicycle is a natural achievement and rite of passage in childhood. For so many with disabilities, however, learning to ride a bicycle never happens. Because of balance challenges, anxiety, low muscle tone, and other physical and cognitive delays, the milestone that is a gateway to independence …
Dear Editor: A lot of talking about regulating the jitney buses will do nothing. We, who use them often and see the drivers using their cell phones constantly, can make a difference. Give us a hotline—a police number, for instance—that we can call to report a driver who is using a cell phone while driving. …
Dear Editor: Recently I read some posts/blogs on a website regarding “terror at the HHA”. I was so saddened and disheartened to read some posts by supposedly “residents”. I have been living in Hoboken all my life, hung out in the housing, made many friends there and think of many of these residents as family. …
Continue reading “Educate yourself, but don’t spread rumors”
Dear Editor: Thanks to Jim from North Bergen for his July 7 letter about excessively loud backyard parties. It’s nice to have someone on my side concerning this quality-of-life issue. Too many people allow their backyard barbecues to become outdoor nightclubs that last into the late hours. The problem comes from more than simple inconsideration. …
Dear Editor: I write this letter to address the ignorant and racially-charged comments regarding our nation’s immigrants, recently made by Congressman Steve King of Iowa. To identify immigrants as drug dealers is not rooted in any truth or reality. Such a statement is hurtful and aimed at forming prejudices that run counter to tolerance and …
Continue reading “Rep. King’s slurs about immigrants were ignorant and hurtful”
Dear Editor: Monday August 5th is again Universal Peace Day. It is the 68th Anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, the day that forever changed our world. The Universal Peace Initiative asks for the ringing of bells throughout the world and calls it “A Peal for Peace”. Their mission is: • To bring people around …
Dear Editor: The following is an open letter to Assemblywoman Jimenez Dear Honorable Assemblywoman Jimenez: I am contacting your office directly, in wake of the horrific accident that occurred on Boulevard East in West New York, in which an innocent 8 month old infant girl was killed. There are no words that are able to …
Dear Editor: Earlier this month the U.S. House of Representatives, on a party-line vote, broke with tradition by stripping from the farm bill the Supplementary Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps). What’s left in the bill is billions of dollars of subsidies mostly for farming conglomerates. The U.S. Senate passed a much more balanced bill last …
Continue reading “Should we subsidize wealthy farmers or poor consumers?”
Dear Editor: Experiencing reality of prayer as I was getting myself together today, in my daily commute from Guttenberg (I’m formerly a Hoboken resident), I began praying, and was so focused on covering everything and everyone in prayer, asking God to bless, provide and bring spiritual growth into our lives. While I was walking to …