Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: On April 13, 2016 we received very sad news about the passing of a Jersey City native Dr. Patricia Bryant, an associate superintendent of our schools at The JCPS district and the head of the Early Childhood Education Division. Dr. Bryant had been with the school district for 27 years, first as a …
Dear Editor: There has been a lot of discussion lately amongst presidential candidates and in the media regarding the subject title. Does it create American jobs or destroy them? Does it reduce costs to the consumers by the importation of lower cost products but at the same time eliminate some of our own domestic industries? …
Dear Editor: About the article in April 10 Reporter about local towns paying tribute (belatedly) to Vietnam veterans. As a veteran myself (of an earlier war, just as stupid and futile and unnecessary as the Vietnam debacle), I object to the increasing use of the word “warrior” to describe the cannon fodder our rulers use …
Dear Editor: April is recognized as Distracted Driving Awareness Month and I wanted to publicly thank New Jersey citizens, our lawmakers, and law enforcement officers for coming together to help combat this very dangerous and irresponsible epidemic. Last year, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) set out on a mission to help educate the …
Continue reading “NJ motorists answer the call to “Just Drive””
Dear Editor: On May 14, lots of area residents will board buses in Teaneck and Wayne, NJ to attend a historic global climate action – BreakFree Albany, 2016! In the Northeast, we’ll descend on Albany, New York, the biggest fossil fuel hub in the region. Bakken crude oil, fracked in North Dakota, is transferred in …
Dear Editor: This past December, following actions by Congress, President Obama enacted into law the largest Alzheimer’s policy victory in at least a generation. An increase of more than $350 million in federal research funding in the FY16 budget will go to researchers working to combat Alzheimer’s disease. While we celebrate this historic win and …
DEAR EDITOR: One ignored source of revenue for the Port Authority is to sell naming rights for airports, train stations, bridges, tunnels, etc. sports teams see the great opportunity for the naming rights of their arenas and a recent example was the most recent super bowl location Levi’s Stadium, for which the naming rights were …
Dear Editor: Mayor Fulop rather boldly announced that “we are winning the fight against crime here in Jersey City” when he presented his 2016 State of the City Address on Wednesday, March 16. Unfortunately, the number of murders in Jersey City has increased in each year of his administration to 25 in 2015 and culminated …
Dear Editor: I would like to thank Councilman Frank Gajewski and Councilwomen Diane Coleman and Joyce Watterman for sponsoring an informative community forum on the redevelopment of Martin Luther King Drive in Jersey City. The reality is in most urban cities, Martin Luther King Drive is faced with poor quality of life issues. I strongly …
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Dear Editor: Governor Christie’s Department of Environmental Protection is shamefully refusing to promise public hearings and a public comment period for their Liberty State Park commercialization and privatization plans. Their development proposals report and press statements have only pledged what will inevitably be a rigged invitation-only “stakeholder process.” The governor should totally abandon these plans, …
Continue reading “Lack of DEP hearings on Liberty State Park would be shameful”