Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: I just saw the most astonishing story on the news that I’d like to share with everyone. But first, in case you don’t know what cognitive dissonance is I’ll explain. It’s when you see something that contradicts what you thought was reality. You have to sit yourself down and convince your mind that …
Continue reading “Determining the possible from the impossible”
Dear Editor: Among those that were already listed we would also like to recognize for their very welcomed visit to our Pediatrics Unit of Hoboken University Medical Center at christmas time: Councilwoman Theresa Castellano, Mr. Edward Barfield and the Hoboken High School Student Council, Mr. Christopher Munoz and the Hoboken High School Hispanic Cultural Club, …
Continue reading “We just keep adding to the list of “angels” in our community!”
Dear Editor: If you voted on Hoboken Public Question No. 2 (HPQ No.2) this past November, be aware that Mile Square Tax Payers Assn. trying do in the courtroom what they were unable do at the ballot box. This past election, just days after Hurricane Sandy struck, was a day many felt justifiably proud of …
Dear Editor: The State of New Jersey’s decision, which was announced late last week, to close the inbound Pulaski Skyway for two years will represent vast economic disruption to the workforce, residents and suppliers to numerous Hudson County based businesses. Without providing adequate replacement routes, an economic impact study and traffic studies, the State of …
Dear Editor: Hooray for the John Birch Society and the National Rifle Association (NRA) for demanding that our school teachers be armed to protect our children by using their U.S. Constitutional gun rights and armed guards. If the teachers had been routinely armed in the past decades, it’s obvious that the killings and the casualties …
Continue reading “Arm our teachers and protect our children”
Dear Editor: The flu epidemic has invaded 48 states, overwhelming medical facilities, exhausting vaccine supplies, and killing 29 children and thousands of seniors. Both the problem and solution to this disaster hinge on how we relate to animals raised for food. Indeed, 61 percent of the 1,415 pathogens known to infect humans originate with animals. …
Dear Editor: The American Lung Association of the Mid-Atlantic wishes everyone a Happy New Year. As we ring in 2013, many of us will make New Year’s resolutions to improve our health and well-being. People who resolve to quit smoking this New Year have the chance to increase the length and quality of their lives. …
Continue reading “Smokers can help their health and wallets by quitting this year”
Dear Editor: As the newly-appointed board president, and on behalf of the entire Hoboken School Board – a board that is committed to its responsibility to set goals that will continue to improve the quality of the Hoboken Public School District’s educational system – I encourage the Hoboken community to attend board meetings and learn …
Continue reading “Come see what your school board has planned”
Dear Editor: As Chairman of the Hoboken Housing Authority, I am pleased to say that our past several board meetings have been filled with healthy debate and occasionally contentious discussion over a wide variety of important issues. I think I speak for the entire Reform majority when I say debate and even friction are positive …
Continue reading “Change has arrived at the Housing Authority”
Dear Editor: A pause on Christmas morning… Hurricane Sandy lives in my heart – one of those moments in time when the human spirit and the human heart opened wide, far and deep – where, in Hoboken, we all dared to look into the eyes of the other fixed on all that connects us, arms …