Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: The “QUALITY OF LIFE IN HOBOKEN” is still an issue. We have lived here for over 20 years and the drunks who come to revel in Hoboken are still in charge. Every weekend we are subject to late night and early morning screaming, profanity, screeching tires and downright deliberate vandalism. This Saturday morning …
Dear Editor: My name is Amanda and I live in Hudson County. I was wondering if by any chance you were aware that May is Stroke Awareness Month! With that said did you know that babies, infants and children have strokes too. Well I for one didn’t until my daughter was diagnosed in June of …
Dear Editor: In Al Sullivan’s column item, “Christie takes over the high court”, Sullivan is again asserting that George Bush is Gov. Christie’s “mentor”. A mentor is defined by Webster’s dictionary as a “trusted counselor or guide”, “tutor” or “coach”. Have the two men met long enough for Bush to implant the control chip Sullivan …
Continue reading “George Bush is not Chris Christie’s mentor”
Dear Editor: I am writing to make your readers aware that May is National Foster Care Month, a time when our attention should turn to the plight of children who are abused and neglected and whose parents are unfit or unable to care for them. Last year 1,207 children came through the foster care system …
Dear Editor: I read the local newspaper and many times there are photos of courtrooms in Superior Court on Newark Ave. I must favorably comment on the appearances of the Hudson County Sheriff’s Officers that many times appear in the pictures with the defendants or other persons in the courtrooms. The officers are dressed in …
Continue reading “Professionalism of Hudson County’s officers”
Dear Editor: NJ libraries are facing a large challenge as Governor Christie’s budget calls for a 74% reduction in state tax dollars for statewide library services. A 74% reduction in funding will eliminate the core services and infrastructure that support a majority of NJ libraries, including the Internet, loaning and delivery of collections between libraries, …
Dear Editor: As your Sheriff one of my efforts upon being sworn in on January 1, 2008 was and continues to be the safety of the county parks in every area of Hudson County. With the beautiful weather approaching people look forward to enjoying the outdoors and activities in our county recreation areas. Our officers …
Dear Editor: As your Sheriff one of my efforts upon being sworn in on January 1, 2008 was and continues to be the safety of the county parks in every area of Hudson County. With the beautiful weather approaching people look forward to enjoying the outdoors and activities in our county recreation areas. Our officers …
Dear Editor: Hickory dickory dock, Mayor Healy lost his sock, he looked under the bed; hit his head, when he woke up, he found Jersey City was still in the red. Sometimes a nursery rhyme full of gibberish is the perfect scenario that could only describe this hallucinating atmosphere of incompetence called the City of …
Continue reading “Jersey City is in an uncontrollable tailspin”
Dear Editor: To Mr. Frank Gargiulo, Superintendent of the Hudson County Schools of Technology: At the most recent County Board of Education meeting it was decided to eliminate the sports programs from the County High Schools. Everyone is aware that this is a time of “belt tightening” but it seems that these cuts have been …
Continue reading “Cutting county high school sports is short-sighted”