Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: I would like to thank the people and the organizations that made it possible for my son Robert to attend the camp for Special Needs in Hacketstown, N.J. for one week. He was so excited about going and he had a fantastic time. It gives him a sense of independence. It was greatly …
Dear Editor: New Jersey is such a partisan state. It is considered “blue” outside the state, but it’s a checker-board in-state with very red areas and very blue areas and darn few “swing” districts. It has been this way for a long time. Bipartisan cooperation, compromise and collaboration by politicians make progress possible. Not really …
Dear Editor: Mayor Gonnelli delights in projecting the image that “I conjure up things”. If one read the Secaucus Home News, 3/19/15 issue, he stated, and I quote, “the best part is that nobody believes what you write.’ Permit me once again expose his misconception of me, and in the process of doing so, expose …
Dear Editor: Ninety-five years after American women won the vote, 167 years after women began fighting for it; in a country where women earn 22 percent less than men, where women are stereotyped and maligned merely because they act like women, and where women bear the weight of most childrearing and caregiving; in a world …
Dear Editor: With the new school year just around the corner, parents’ attention is turning to school clothes, supplies, and lunches. Yes, school lunches! In past years, USDA had used our nation’s schools as a dumping ground for surplus meat and dairy commodities. Not surprisingly, one-third of children have become overweight or obese. Their early …
Dear Editor: Terrified. That’s how I feel when I think about my life after college. The graduating class of 2016 worked extremely hard to reach this point. Unfortunately, it also required a lot of money. Along with our diplomas, we will be leaving college with over $1.2 trillion in debt. Even with the job market …
Excuse me, Megyn Kelly: America is nearly $20 Trillion in debt, Iran soon to have nukes; ISIS is chopping off Americans’ heads and burning people alive in cages; Christians are being slaughtered by the thousands; thousands of illegal immigrants (including deported felons) are jumping our border everyday; our government is paying an agency to chop …
Dear Editor: At the July 30th Board meeting, I urged the Board to fill the position of Building and Grounds. On April 14, at a “Special Meeting,” (I’ll have more to say about that meeting once I decipher the minutes of that meeting). Why I have chosen the word “decipher” will become evident once the …
Dear Editor: In the wake of yet another horrific mass killing in America, I say enough is enough. Our first order of business should be a national dialogue, of small gatherings and large, to brainstorm bolder solutions to end this awful cycle of violence and heal our communities. To help me organize my own thinking …
Continue reading “Toward a more caring, peaceful, less violent society”
Dear Editor: In the early morning hours of Saturday, July 11, a devastating four-alarm fire tore through a multi-family home on East 21st Street in Bayonne, claiming the lives of an elderly and disabled husband and wife, hospitalizing three, and displacing eight families. The tragedy may have been worse if it weren’t for the firefighter’s …
Continue reading “Fatal fire in Bayonne and the need for updated fire sprinkler laws”