Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: The Affordable Care Act offers unique benefits for the uninsured and helps New Jersey take strides in mending our troubled economy. Expanding Medicaid will give over 300,000 uninsured New Jerseyans access to health coverage. Currently, one in four New Jersey adults without dependents does not have health coverage. Additionally, small businesses in New …
Dear Editor: The following is Tom Wolfe’s letter of thanks to Mayor Gonnelli. Mayor Gonnelli: Just a quick note to say ‘thank you’ for your visibility and leadership before, during, and in the weeks after Hurricane Sandy. I especially appreciate your responding to my emailed requests for information almost immediately from your iPhone, and for …
Dear Editor: Why we must pressure our legislators to abolish the New Jersey absentee vote policy: 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 …
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Dear Editor: On the occasion of Frank Sinatra’s 97th birthday on December 12th, I along with such music luminaries as Harry Prime, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Peggy King, Jane Powell, Billy Jon Coogan, etc., say Happy Birthday Francis Albert! You and your music are forever in our hearts and minds. A fan forever,Herb Stark
Dear Editor; You know what they say about payback? Is it as bad as they say it is? I would not know. I try not to place myself in that position. However, you might ask the three trustees Mayor Gonnelli supported during the last Board election that question. Did he hold their feet to the …
Dear Editor: I couldn’t agree more with both recent Letters to the Editor by John Amato and Wm. P. Frasca regarding the lack of preparedness and, in some cases, responses to Hurricane Sandy. We lost power for eight days and with no thanks to PSE&G, we finally got power back in less than three hours …
Dear Editor: The songs written during war times always fascinate me. They captured a point in time placing a musical beat to it. One particular song popular during Word War One “Over There” in my opinion was without a doubt a classic example of the things to come and the conclusion of what hopefully was …
Dear Editor: Frankenstorm Sandy is one more dramatic demonstration that climate change and its extreme weather patterns are now part of our future. Although we’re unlikely to reverse climate change, we can still mitigate its effects by reducing our driving, our energy use, and our meat consumption. Yes, meat consumption. A 2006 U.N. report estimated …
Dear Editor: “Superstorm” Sandy descended angrily on the East Coast with a crash that millions of folks in NJ, NY and bordering states felt for days after (maybe weeks or months) – and many are still coping with no power and long gas lines. Millions of us heeded the call by preparedness and contingencies for …