Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: CivicJC is of the opinion that legislation should be based on solid evidence and not on impulse. It should follow an open and transparent process of robust and informed public debate, taking into account evidence, necessity and the opinion of the public. That stated, we have seen nothing that would indicate a process …
Continue reading “Is there really a problem that needs to be addressed?”
Dear Editor: Several months ago, the city council gave Mayor Fulop $31.5 million of overpayments of the MUA. This money will be paid over a 13 year period of which $4.5 million is in this year’s budget. The budget shows the public was duped out of the MUA money. There is a surplus greater than …
Dear Editor: I am a great supporter of Senator Bob Menendez. He stands for the people of New Jersey and for the United States of America. I’ve had the privilege of attending Senator Bob Menendez’s Women’s History Month celebration and can say, with 100 percent certainty, that New Jersey women are better off because Bob …
Dear Editor: As some of your readers may know, April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. While highlighting this important issue once a year is a good thing, it is not effective unless its message is practiced every day. New Jersey is one of 18 states in the country in which every citizen is considered a …
Dear Council Members: The Jersey City Planning Board recently approved revisions to the Historic Plan Element of Jersey City’s Master Plan that calls for aggressive expansion of historic districting throughout the city. Sparrow Hill (Heights) and Bergen Hill (Ward F) – where historic designation was soundly rejected by the local community in the early 1990s …
Continue reading “An open letter to the City Council of Jersey City”
Dear Editor: After several meetings with the public the Jersey City Council has decided to move forward with introducing the West Bergen East Lincoln Park Historic District. At those meetings the citizens spoke against the district for a variety of reasons. One was the lack of transparency on the part of the administration in this …
Dear Editor: The Friends of Liberty State Park thank Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto and Assemblyman Raj Mukherji for the revised Meadowlands bill’s two important amendments to the LSP language, which will help ensure a public participation process regarding LSP privatization plans. However, the autonomous Meadowlands Regional Commission shouldn’t have anything at all to do with …
Continue reading “Revised bill and coming privatization plans”
Dear Editor: I am the home owner of a wood-frame structure, built in 1887. Jersey City wants to make my neighborhood historic! The state and national registries have already done so! The only reason J.C. wants to “designate” my neighborhood as historic” is so Jersey City can charge me more in fees for living here! …
Dear Editor: After a month of persistent and crippling snowstorms, I do look forward to spring weather, green grass, and flowers in bloom. The advent of spring is also a great opportunity to turn over a new leaf on our dietary habits. In fact, hundreds of communities welcome spring on March 20th with an observance …
Dear Editor: At the recent monthly meeting of Local 2262 (AFSCME) our President Bill Murawski along with Vice President Joe Conti had thanked all custodians and labor gangs who worked for the Board of Education for the hard work to remove snow and ice from the last big snow fall from parking lots and sidewalks …