Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: I would like to express my appreciation for the continuing improvements in James J. Braddock Park. In recent time, improvements have included a state of the art open air gym, a kiddie playground with water feature, new athletic fields, CCTV cameras for security, improved landscaping and litter control and restoration of the beautiful …
Continue reading “Park, library improvements are appreciated”
Dear Editor: Right now, the NJ Legislature is working on the NJ Secure Choice Savings Program Act, which would help the more than 1.7 million working New Jerseyans who don’t have access to a retirement savings plan at work. Secure Choice makes it easier to save so everyone can live the life they want after …
Continue reading “Secure choice is good for workers, good for business”
Dear Editor: I’m writing to thank House Representative Sires’ Chief of Staff Gene Martorony for warmly receiving me in Washington for a very productive and lively discussion on Carbon fee and dividend legislation. I was in DC with 900 Citizens Climate Lobby volunteers who met with nearly all 535 Members of Congress over two days …
Dear Editor: In the wake of yet another horrific mass killing in America, I say enough is enough. Our first order of business should be a national dialogue, of small gatherings and large, to brainstorm bolder solutions to end this awful cycle of violence and heal our communities. To help me organize my own thinking …
Continue reading “Toward a more caring, peaceful, less violent society”
Dear Editor: I want to thank Fernando Portes, spokesman for the Union City Feral Cat Committee, for his humanitarian support and interest in helping to provide local animal shelters and easier access for local city dwellers to get assistance in trapping, neutering, and returning neutered cats and dogs (TNR). I live in North Bergen and …
Continue reading “An example for North Hudson to follow re pets”
Dear Editor: Bill Clinton said it: “It’s the economy, stupid.” Hillary Clinton is going to say it: ‘It’s the economy, stupid.’ President Obama and Democrats have spent six years repairing a devastated economy, a record national debt, and two expensive and unwinnable wars of occupation they inherited from the Bush-Republicans. Is that what you want …
Dear Editor: It brings me great enthusiasm to acknowledge that through their diligent work and dedication, the Hudson Reporter staff members won awards from the Memorial Journalism Contest, sponsored by the Garden State Journalism Association. These awards were well-deserved, as all of you have outstanding ethics and abilities to go with your great responsibility: keeping …
Dear Editor: In New Jersey, 1.2 million workers do not have the ability to earn sick days. Earned sick days can reduce emergency room visits, saving $1.1 billion a year nationally. Parents with paid sick days are 20 percent less likely to send a sick child to school, reducing the likelihood that their child’s illness …
Dear Editor: When you go to the beach …. This summer don’t forget the sun screen. And, don’t forget the young men that went to the beaches of Normandy, France some 70 years ago. They didn’t go with sun screen to sun bathe on Utah Beach. Nor did they go with swimsuits to swim at …
Dear Editor: The Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) was founded in 1986 when residents of Bloomington, Indiana, rallied around a toddler who needed a life-saving liver transplant. In less than eight weeks, the community raised $100,000 to place the boy on the organ waiting list. But the child died before an organ became available. Those …