Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: Ninety-five years after American women won the vote, 167 years after women began fighting for it; in a country where women earn 22 percent less than men, where women are stereotyped and maligned merely because they act like women, and where women bear the weight of most childrearing and caregiving; in a world …
Dear Editor: In the early morning hours of Saturday, July 11, a devastating four-alarm fire tore through a multi-family home on East 21st Street in Bayonne, claiming the lives of an elderly and disabled husband and wife, hospitalizing three, and displacing eight families. The tragedy may have been worse if it weren’t for the firefighter’s …
Continue reading “Fatal fire in Bayonne and the need for updated fire sprinkler laws”
Dear Editor: To the woman who accused me of making false statements about the preschool and Braddock Park – read again. I wrote “Chances of bites from ticks, rats, groundhogs, skunks, snakes, etc. is much greater in the park than in the community.” How can you argue with that statement? BTW, there are ticks because …
Dear Editor: Terrified. That’s how I feel when I think about my life after college. The graduating class of 2016 worked extremely hard to reach this point. Unfortunately, it also required a lot of money. Along with our diplomas, we will be leaving college with over $1.2 trillion in debt. Even with the job market …
Excuse me, Megyn Kelly: America is nearly $20 Trillion in debt, Iran soon to have nukes; ISIS is chopping off Americans’ heads and burning people alive in cages; Christians are being slaughtered by the thousands; thousands of illegal immigrants (including deported felons) are jumping our border everyday; our government is paying an agency to chop …
I live in Hoboken. Last week I had a nice conversation with a gentleman in the Hoboken Path Station about how my sister, who just passed away, used to send money to St. Jude’s charity hospital for children. I told him I was going to send money there in the near future. It was a …
Dear Editor: Recently I wrote to a powerful Hudson County politician with what I conceived as a rather esoteric request: throw a life-line to a threatened species of butterfly called the Monarch by planting milkweed, its only food source. Here’s the idea. Take the city owned empty tree wells in Union City that are now …
Continue reading “Save the monarch butterflies of Hudson County”
Dear Editor: Regarding the North Bergen Pre-School in Braddock Park, I am writing in reply to a ridiculous letter from Robert Walden which was full of completely false statements. My daughter Sofia attended the pre-school last year and it was wonderful. She loved her teachers and classmates. She loved being in the park, with plenty …
Dear Editor: 15 years ago the North Bergen BOE scrapped plans to build a high school in Braddock Park after a referendum showed many citizens were against it. Deceptively, officials violated NJ DEP regulations and moved 17 trailers into the park, called them the North Bergen Preschool and promised they would be there temporarily. They …
Dear Editor: Ron Lowe (Letters, June 28) wants to convince us that we’ll be better off electing a Democrat, rather than a Republican, for president in 2016. Really? Well, according to Ralph Nader and others who tell the truth, there is only a “dime’s worth of difference” between the political parties. Both are ruled by …