Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: Earlier this month the Assembly passed a bill that allows cities with non-partisan elections to move their municipal elections from May to November. What a fantastic idea on two fronts: voter turnout and cost savings. November elections typically have greater turnout (30 percent in 2009) which would translate into higher participation in our …
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Dear Editor: Well! Well! What have we here? Mr. Angel Valentine said on Channel 1 that he is going to bring in a thousand volunteers to clean our Jersey City public schools. Angel must have a magic wand. Our local community supported Mr. Valentine for the Board of Education and now he is knocking our …
Dear Editor: I’m appalled at the utter shamelessness of the Newport developers who want a revised tax abatement so they can turn two floors of an office building that were supposed to be used for parking into office space. If they want to make that change, that’s fine – just don’t expect the taxpayer to …
Dear Editor: My name is Steven Pinkney Sr. I was director of the largest youth at risk initiative in the country. During the summer, we held a five day per week, full day program for school age children. During a run from 1988 to 1994 we kept hundreds of children occupied and could boast that …
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Dear Editor: Having started my career with the Hudson County Sheriff’s Office in the early 1970’s I had the honor of serving under Sheriff William J. Wolfe. Sheriff Wolfe was and will always be remembered as a kind and caring human being and I was involved with many of the projects that he conducted for …
Dear Editor: There is a crisis going on right now and you might not even know about it. The bottom line is we can only count on ourselves to fix it. Plastic grocery bags are an ugly eyesore that presents serious environmental worries. One thing I didn’t know is that they are made with oil. …
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Dear Editor: We, the Scibetta Family would like to express our sincere gratitude to all those who helped make our son’s benefit such a huge success, and for their continued support in our time of need. Your generous donations, attendance at our benefits, thoughts, and prayers have helped our family tremendously and we will be …
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Dear Editor: As it moves into the final stretch of enacting long overdue health care reform, Congress needs to do four things to make sure we finish the job right. Health care must be affordable at work. It must be affordable for people who currently lack employer-based coverage. It needs to be fairly financed. And …
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Dear Editor: On behalf of the Jerramiah T. Healy Foundation Board of Trustees, we would like to thank Shop Rite and the Inserra Family for their financial support with our fourth annual holiday food program for needy school families in Jersey City. In December, with the cooperation of Dr. Charles Epps and the Jersey City …
Dear Editor: I would like to compliment Councilman Fulop and Councilman Gaughan for their refusal to grant an $8 million loan to the Hilton Hotel developers. The developers would use the money to improve the vacant land prior to getting financing to build the hotel. The developers were sold the property at a steep discount …