Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: On behalf of the Town Council and myself, I would like to thank the 44 talented artists who gave us the opportunity to showcase their artwork and the 23 poets who shared their creative expression in their interpretive readings at the 3rd Annual Secaucus Resident Art Show. Without your creative spirit this event …
Dear Editor: I notice that the pretentious potentates trying to take our guns away are now trying to destroy our 2nd amendment gun rights, and turn us into victims of criminals, by destroying our U.S. Constitution by organizing a U.S. Constitutional Convention, also known as Con-Con, among our states. So, the subversive elements who hate …
Dear Editor: I will not allow Frank Degillo in a letter to another paper covering Secaucus get away with his attempt to make it appear that I am against the bocce league need for a third court. I get annoyed when someone can not understand what to me was a simple question. Frank, people are …
Dear Editor: On Thursday, May 9, 2013, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Hudson Vicinage, in partnership with the State Bar Association and Foundation, the Hudson County Bar Association and Foundation, and the Hudson County Advisory Committee on Minority Concerns will be hosting the 5th Annual Court Night at the Brennan Courthouse, 583 Newark Avenue, …
Dear Editor: I bring to your attention a highly unsatisfactory system perhaps exhibiting negligence by the N.J. Department of Health regarding our Garden State’s medical marijuana program. My wife was diagnosed with cancer in November of 2012. We had just (barely) survived Sandy and were happy to be back in our previously evacuated apartment to …
Continue reading “‘I feel like the victim of a scam perpetrated by my very own state’”
Dear Editor: April is Autism Awareness Month. The lifelong developmental disorder, once rare, now affects 1 in 49 New Jersey children and their families. And as the rate of autism has grown, the effects of autism have rippled out, reaching into schools, churches and synagogues, supermarkets, movie theaters, restaurants, fire departments and first aid squads, …
Continue reading “For those with autism, the community is the classroom”
Dear Editor: It’s hard to believe how quickly time has gone by since Superstorm Sandy devastated many of our New Jersey communities, damaging homes and businesses and wreaking widespread havoc on the lives of Garden State families in its path. In the wake of Sandy’s destruction, we also saw the character of our New Jersey …
Continue reading “Help for Sandy’s emotional impact is available”
Dear Editor: I am not sure everyone realizes that the state of New Jersey has a senior freeze program for property tax relief for owners who are 65 or over and live in their homes. To qualify, your income must be under a state determined maximum. The way the program works, once you establish a …
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: To those of you that have seen my photo in my campaign advertisement and are unfamiliar with my ongoing battle with Mayor Gonnelli’s character assassination of me. Permit me to explain, the misinterpretation of what supporters interpreted to be my giving an OK sign. My intention was to make it appear that I …