Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: Lorenzo Richardson’s comments that board members should kill themselves — Is this really the future we want for Jersey City? On the Board of Education meeting June 28th 2012 Lorenzo Richardson told the Board to kill themselves if they voted for Marcia Lyles. Quote: “at least you (the Board) will die with respect …
Continue reading “Keeping hateful minds away from our children”
Dear Editor: Thank you Dianne Singh for supporting The Children First Team with this letter to The Jersey Journal about last week’s school security breach at the trailer at PS41. Today’s security breach involved an autistic student who was found at a bus stop after managing to get out of his school building. This is …
Dear Editor: Thank you for publishing my letter regarding the Greenville Yards waste dump expansion. I want to respond to the recent updates on this news item. Though the Mayor has squashed his plan to bring more trash into Greenville due to apparent political and public pressure, it still troubles me greatly that this plan …
Continue reading “How will the expanded waste dump impact our schools?”
Dear Editor: I strongly support the Parents for Excellence, Carol Harrison-Arnold, Monica Kress and Bertram Okpokwasili, for the Jersey City Board of Education election on November 4th. I am not a parent yet and I don’t have kids in the public school. I am voting for them because I trust these candidates more than any …
Dear Editor: Kopacz doesn’t want to debate me – and sadly, that’s the case for the entire HCDO establishment. They have grown so accustomed to having the elite news media and faux intelligentsia on its side that they have lost the ability to actually debate public policy. Instead, Kopacz lobs ad attacks and cliches at …
Dear Editor: After serious consideration and research, I vote for the candidate I feel is the most qualified for the position. After reading the articles in the Community News regarding the position of freeholder in Bayonne, I strongly urge all the citizens represented in Bayonne and Jersey City to vote for Kenneth Kopacz. As president …
Continue reading “Alonso’s abortion issue is irrelevant to freeholder’s race”
Dear Editor: Last night, Mayor Fulop and the City Council voted to approve a deal with the NYC Dept of Sanitation to have New York City’s garbage waste hauled to Jersey City’s Greenville neighborhood. The mayor touted the $10 million payout for the deal and cited how the money would be made available to improve …
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Dear Editor: Experts at the NJ Poison Center urge parents and caregivers to be alert and take precautions to avoid dangerous mishaps while celebrating Halloween this year. Be sure to keep Trick-or-treaters safe! A topic unique to this time of year is the “accidental” ingestion of glow stick liquid. Often, “Parents call 9-1-1 or spend …
Continue reading “Ground rules for safe “Trick or Treating””
Dear Editor: It started with a 102.4 fever, aches all-over, coughs, congestion… misery for two weeks (and counting!). Sometimes I cough so hard it feels like my chest is going to crack. Other times, the coughs come in waves that make me see flashes of light in between short, desperate breaths. It is the right …
Continue reading “Sick days protect workers, and their co-workers”
Dear Editor: We really do need some action taken in Ward A, Country Village. I call and ask and give addresses of things that need to be cleaned up, but it never gets done. When the “Action Bureau” was in office, jobs were done. It’s really a hassle to get things done anymore. I liked …