Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: I have always found the subject of number duplication to be fascinating. If you were to take $1 double it and each successive day each dollar doubled itself you would in thirty short days have amassed a fortune of $536,870,912. Numbers doubled and redoubled increase exponentially. In infectious disease, it quickly becomes apparent …
Continue reading “Number duplication, ebola and geopolitical life/death decisions”
Dear Editor: In the 10/19/14 North Bergen Reporter, Town Administrator Chris Pianese is reported as saying the North Bergen preschool trailers in Braddock Park are “tucked away, it’s secluded, it’s safe.” And Mayor Sacco said “the current structures will remain with no plans to replace them with permanent buildings.” “They’re beautiful trailers.” In making such …
Continue reading “Braddock Park diversion: A bad idea for preschoolers, teachers and park lovers.”
Dear Editor: The Township of North Bergen and the County of Hudson have contacted the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Green Acres Program, proposing to divert approximately 1.1 acres of the James J. Braddock North Hudson County Park, Bergenline Avenue, North Bergen, New Jersey 07047, Block 437.02 and Lot 1 in order to keep …
Dear Editor: Over half a million New Jerseyans are affected by Alzheimer’s disease – including individuals in the Bergen, Morris and Passaic County areas, who are either diagnosed with the disease or are caring for a loved one with it. You can register for the Northern Regional Walk to End Alzheimer’s, which takes place on …
Dear Editor: The fire service has the great grace to be one of society’s truly altruistic professions. The fire service exists to help, save, protect and keep safe the lives and property of the communities served. Every member of every community served by firefighters is safe in the knowledge that help will come whenever the …
Dear Editor: Or should the headline read; “Politics does make strange bed fellows.” The fact that former West New York Mayor Sal Vega received a $60,000 dollar a year job to serve as the new High Tech HS Director of Transportation is in no way disturbing to me unless his qualifications fall short of the …
Continue reading “What Ever Happened to Personal Integrity?”
Dear Editor: Tuesday August 12 a little before 6 p.m. – this will be a day I will never forget, for I lost my beautiful beagle mix to a speeding car, a driver going above the speed limit on my street of 77th street North Bergen NJ. I’d like to make it clear that I …
Continue reading “Disgusted – is there no justice for animals?”
Dear Editor: When I first began my internship at AARP, I had absolutely no idea how big of an issue caregiving is. Now I know that caregivers provide around $13 billion a year in unpaid services in New Jersey alone, and surely people that give that much deserve to get something back. This is why …
Continue reading “Focus on caregiving is warranted given how big its impact is”
Dear Editor: With the new school year, parents’ attention is turning to school lunches. Traditionally, USDA had used the National School Lunch Program as a dumping ground for surplus meat and dairy commodities. Children consumed animal fat and sugary drinks, to the point where one-third have became overweight or obese. Their early dietary flaws became …
Dear Editor: There is no such thing as buying a veteran plot. This is a sales strategy used by some civilian cemeteries to attract veterans. All veterans’ cemeteries are free for veteran, wife and any dependent child. In New Jersey at the present time, there is a state federally funded cemetery General Doyle in High …