Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: In New Jersey, we spend billions of dollars each year on public education. Yet we fail to do a simple and inexpensive thing that can help thousands of children succeed in school. Feed them breakfast. Despite the existence of a federal school breakfast program and the undisputed benefits of breakfast, New Jersey ranks …
Dear Editor: Dr. Mark Toback, the Hoboken Superintendent of Schools, is quoted in the Hoboken Reporter defending his administration’s decision to force district students to eat egg salad sandwiches or not get any lunch at all if the family has not paid the school food bill. He said there is symbolism in the policy, but …
Dear Editor: I want to thank Lois Gross for proving the point I was trying to make in my last letter. I am sorry that the flooding forced her to evacuate, but ultimately her great desire to vote in the election and on the Hoboken public questions encouraged her to return to Hoboken to vote …
Dear Editor: When my dad was living he used to tell me stories of how drunks would lay on benches outside the churches to beg for money from those coming from mass. We have something similar now but instead of having homeless drunks on St Patrick’s Day, we now have disgusting New Yorkers who live …
Dear Editor: Mr. Jamie Cryan, Chairman of the Hoboken Democratic Committee, was dead on target when he said last week “the one good thing about the day was the parade, and they got rid of that.”I’d like to ask Chief Falco to provide statistics involving the criminality of the parade in past years. This should …
Continue reading “Say goodbye to the carpetbagger from the woods of New England”
Dear Editor: I am not sure everyone realizes that the state of New Jersey has a senior freeze program for property tax relief for owners who are 65 or over and live in their homes. To qualify, your income must be under a state determined maximum. The way the program works, once you establish a …
Dear Editor: Three years ago we asked by the Hudson County Animal League to foster a sick dog they had just rescued from an animal cruelty case. After meeting this poor little girl – who was suffering from a bladder stone, untreated thyroid condition and a skin problem so severe she lost all of her …
Continue reading “Grateful to the Hudson County Animal League”
Dear Editor: The amount of dog waste on city sidewalks is out of control! The issue is how do you prevent this or enforce the laws requiring dog owners to clean up after their pets. As a dog owner there have been times that I found myself bag less, however there is always a bag …
Dear Editor: As members of hob’art, the only nonprofit cooperative gallery in Hoboken, located in the Monroe Arts Center, we are responding to the very interesting letter from John Bredin that was published in the Hoboken Reporter on February 24th. We totally agree with Mr. Bredin that Hoboken needs a gallery or small art museum …
Dear Editor: As the weather’s chill reaches us, and we become grateful for all means of warmth, let us extend a hand of some ‘kind gesture’ to less fortunate suffering without a place to lay their heads. Men and women who are out in the cold winds, hoping to get a chance to sleep somewhere …