Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: President Obama is making Medicare a key topic of the federal spending discussion. Both parties have an opportunity to pursue commonsense reforms that preserve the program while achieving bipartisan support for fixing what isn’t working. I believe that parts of the Affordable Care Act can conceivably be implemented with minimal dislocation, but only …
Continue reading “Reforming Medicare with a Part D Blueprint”
Dear Editor: Three years ago we asked by the Hudson County Animal League were to foster a sick dog they had just rescued from an animal cruelty case. After meeting this poor little girl – who was suffering from a bladder stone, untreated thyroid condition and a skin problem so severe she lost all of …
Continue reading “Grateful to the Hudson County Animal League”
Dear Editor: On behalf of Special Olympics New Jersey, I wish to express my sincere appreciation for the support of Governor Chris Christie and Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno with the signing of Bill S1855. This bill designates our organization as one of the NJ Charitable Funds residents may choose to endorse with a donation on …
Dear Editor: Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, has announced the agency is expanding the services available with a my Social Security account, a personalized online account that people can use beginning in their working years and continuing throughout the time they receive Social Security benefits. More than 60 million Social Security beneficiaries and …
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Dear Editor: Here it is, my new wish list, for the United States Congress and the Senate. Place term limits on all members of Congress and the Senate. Secure all our borders. Stop allowing our pension system, public and private to be compromised. Stop blaming others; be responsible for your own actions. Allow everyone the …
Dear Editor: One of the reasons people praise our democracy is because we have the right to vote in a private booth where no one has to know which way we voted. Absentee voting totally eliminates this assurance of a secret vote, leaving the process open to all kinds of anti-democratic corruption. Whether it’s people …
Dear Editor: In response to the recent letter from Lawrence J. Braico, I’d like to make clear I have no use for guns in the hands of the public. I speak as a 29-year resident of Hoboken and Jersey City who has been jumped three times, seriously weighed arming myself, and instead has made the …
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Dear Editor: If Medicaid isn’t expanded to cover the over 300,000 uninsured New Jerseyans who qualify, hospitals will continue to get stuck with the bill. The State reimburses hospitals for these charity care costs but not 100 percent. Not even close. And without the expansion of Medicaid coverage in NJ, which AARP supports, these unpaid …
Continue reading “No one likes to wait in line – especially in an emergency.”
Dear Editor: The following is a open letter to Albio Sires. Dear Rep. Sires: With all dues respect, I for one, and your constituents, would like to meet with you in a real “live” Town Hall meeting for a face-to-face communications session of questions and responses concerning the latest actions of the 112th Congress and …
Dear Editor: I am a 62 year old life long resident of Hudson County and I am a proud gun owner. Ever since I can remember I have been a proud gun owner. When I was a child I owned a child’s toy guns, proudly. Throughout my life I have owned all types of firearms; …