Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Surgeon General’s first report on health hazards of cigarette smoking, his office released a report linking smoking to several new chronic diseases. These include diabetes, erectile dysfunction, cancer of the colon and liver, and stroke, in additional to the well-known links to lung …
Continue reading “‘Our health remains our personal responsibility’”
Dear Editor: The following is an open letter to Governor Christopher Christie Dear Governor Christie: The following are good reasons why you should not continue in the Governorship. Regardless of your good work and obvious political skills, you remain blind to what defines power abuse in “ends justifying means”. Your legal actions alone, demonstrate a …
Continue reading “Distorted sense of what a politician is entitled do”
Dear Editor: I wish to voice my appreciation for a job well done by the Guttenberg DPW over the past few weeks with the snow removal. It is a hard job steering through our narrow streets and narrow two way streets and dealing with uncooperative residents who insist on throwing snow in the street. Good …
Dear Editor: I was always of the belief that some people get into politics for all the right reasons. Some want to help their community, some may want to right certain wrongs and some just want to do good. But as history shows a lot of these people once caught up in the system give …
Dear Editor: For the past 30 years, I’ve fought for lung health with the American Lung Association. Our organization has been a leader in the battle against tobacco, which is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the U.S. Over the years, this battle has experienced dramatic highs and disappointing lows. CVS Caremark’s …
Continue reading “CVS Caremark pulling tobacco products – a public health game-changer”
Dear Editor: I’m writing to thank Hudson County residents for their generosity in helping thousands of suffering children worldwide this Christmas. Through their efforts, we were able to collect more than 2,202 shoeboxes—filled with toys, school supplies and hygiene items—for Operation Christmas Child, the world’s largest Christmas project of its kind. These simple gift-filled shoeboxes …
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Dear Editor: Recently I was asked if Mayor Zimmer was telling the truth when she described her encounter with Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno in the ShopRite parking lot. I thought to myself, if only I could determine the truthfulness of a politician, I would be in great demand and very wealthy! While I cannot answer …
Dear Editor: When the NFL needed a space to hold the 2,000 workers for the Super Bowl halftime show, they contacted the Town of Secaucus and the Board of Education, who offered to lease the High School’s performing arts center and gymnasium to the NFL. In exchange the NFL agreed to give the school $20,000 …
Continue reading “Secaucus speaks out about Super Bowl ‘broken promises’”
Dear Editor: Here’s what Chris Christie said: “I, Chris Christie, elected Governor of the State of New Jersey, do solemnly promise and swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and …
Dear Editor: You maybe familiar with some of the individual energy saving’s standards. There are 25, about half of the states that have adopted them. In NJ these standards exist in theory but not in practice. Every year more funding is pulled from the program. This is costing our state in terms of poorer economic …