Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: The Hoboken Public Library is an architectural treasure and an invaluable cultural asset to our community, but have you noticed that the building would benefit from a new front door, one more in keeping with the beautiful and very historic building? The Friends of the Hoboken Public Library certainly noticed, and we are …
Dear Editor: We need to reclaim the skies over our communities. Join the movement that has stretched across the Hudson at Stop NYC Tourist Helicopters Over NJ Side of Hudson River on Facebook. Our skies have become a super-highway for tourism helicopters. Communities from the GWB to Liberty State Park are under siege from the …
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Dear Editor: In this day and age, with things like the bombing of the Boston marathon and the WTC attacks, does anyone in their right mind think that they can just waltz into an office building (government or otherwise) without going through security? Next time you feel like taking a stroll, keep in mind that …
Dear Editor: Since our government has a budget crisis and we will not see our great U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers, destroyers, cruisers, this May. The only thing coming up the Hudson will be a true Native American in a canoe, followed by the celebrity cruise ship for one more cruise up the river. No money …
Dear Editor: I feel obligated to write a response to Mrs. Sobolov’s recent letter to your paper. Certainly Mrs. Sobolov is entitled to her opinion, but as I said in my previous letter, she should not use selective memory in basing those opinions. I again ask Mrs. Sobolov, why she wouldn’t put a 4 percent …
Dear Editor: On Thursday, May 9, 2013, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Hudson Vicinage, in partnership with the State Bar Association and Foundation, the Hudson County Bar Association and Foundation, and the Hudson County Advisory Committee on Minority Concerns will be hosting the 5th Annual Court Night at the Brennan Courthouse, 583 Newark Avenue, …
Dear Editor: Steve Cappiello was a rebel with a cause…he lived and breathed Hoboken on every occasion…If you think Hoboken is a beautiful city today, you should have seen it in the late 1960’s and early 70’s…Washington Street, between Observer Highway. and Hudson Street, looked like a war zone…People used to laugh at Hoboken back …
Dear Editor: Just hours after Hurricane Sandy devastated Hoboken, a relatively-unknown young woman named Carly Ringer began organizing a massive effort at Hoboken High School to assist and comfort those in need immediately. She worked tirelessly, day, night, weekends, imploring her friends on Facebook almost hourly to do the same or donate what they could. …
Dear Editor: The principles of democracy and justice upon which our country is founded require that citizens have the right and the freedom to vote in elections in the manner in which they desire to determine who will represent them and the actions our government will take on important issues. Overturning the results of an …
Dear Editor: For the last five months, post Super-storm Sandy, I’ve seen a certain company working in town. They seem to be removing soil that “may” have been contaminated from the flooding. They remove roughly 4-6 inches of soil and replace it with what looks to be clean soil. There doesn’t appear to be any …