Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: Thanks to Jim from North Bergen for his July 7 letter about excessively loud backyard parties. It’s nice to have someone on my side concerning this quality-of-life issue. Too many people allow their backyard barbecues to become outdoor nightclubs that last into the late hours. The problem comes from more than simple inconsideration. …
Dear Editor: Pedestrian fatalities in New Jersey have skyrocketed in recent years. The pedestrian share of traffic-related deaths in New Jersey now accounts for 30 percent of the total, more than twice the national average. In response to growing concerns, Safe Streets policies are being adopted nationwide. The New Jersey Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets …
Dear Editor: Jersey City has become a war zone since the new Mayor took charge at the helm. Murders and shooting have escalated into epidemic proportions, with the only solution of gun control, or the buy back gun policy, endorsed by the previous Mayor Healy and Mayor Fulop. Chicago has the toughest gun control on …
Continue reading “Quality of a safe life in Jersey City is quickly diminishing”
Dear Editor: Join the Friends of Leonard Gordon Park (FoLGP) for gardening Sundays 9:30 a.m. as we complete & maintain this park’s new gardens by Kennedy Blvd. and Sherman Place. We are a community-based non-profit group of neighbors who in many ways are working to improve this historic park. Help us make this the greatest …
Dear Editor: On Saturday, August 10th, my husband, Jim, and I answered the front door to find a salesman from a private energy company who attempted to have us agree to choose that company as our provider. He was armed with a binder displaying a PSEG bill on the cover and brandished a company badge. …
Dear Editor: Recently Mayor Fulop increased taxes in our city and mailed an accompanying letter blaming me and my administration for the increase. I write this letter in response. The mayor’s one page letter mentions me and my administration five times and makes several references to the campaign and the election. The letter cites as …
Dear Editor: A lot of talking about regulating the jitney buses will do nothing. We, who use them often and see the drivers using their cell phones constantly, can make a difference. Give us a hotline—a police number, for instance—that we can call to report a driver who is using a cell phone while driving. …
Dear Editor: Thanks to Jim from North Bergen for his July 7 letter about excessively loud backyard parties. It’s nice to have someone on my side concerning this quality-of-life issue. Too many people allow their backyard barbecues to become outdoor nightclubs that last into the late hours. The problem comes from more than simple inconsideration. …
Dear Editor: I write this letter to address the ignorant and racially-charged comments regarding our nation’s immigrants, recently made by Congressman Steve King of Iowa. To identify immigrants as drug dealers is not rooted in any truth or reality. Such a statement is hurtful and aimed at forming prejudices that run counter to tolerance and …
Continue reading “Rep. King’s slurs about immigrants were ignorant and hurtful”
Dear Editor: The impending Reevaluation in Jersey City is a nightmare ready to happen for old timers in the Heights, Journal Square, the Island, Marion, Westside and beyond. Any time you hear of equalizing the tax burden, it’s simply sugar coating an awful scenario. The only taxes that will go down or remain near the …