Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: Dear Mayor Gonnelli: I would like to thank you, Mayor Gonnelli and the town council for the creation of the “Exceptional People of Secaucus” program. It is long overdue that the most under represented and least catered to minority in society is given their just due. As a parent of a child involved …
Dear Editor: Millions of Americans save for retirement using a 401(k), but how do they know if they are making the best investment decisions. We may not all be Warren Buffet, but we all want someone like him advising us on how to best invest our retirement savings. However, the law does not hold all …
Continue reading “Financial planners should invest based on clients’ best interests, not their own”
Dear Editor: Recently I wrote to a powerful Hudson County politician with what I conceived as a rather esoteric request: throw a life-line to a threatened species of butterfly called the Monarch by planting milkweed, its only food source. Here’s the idea. Take the city owned empty tree wells in Union City that are now …
Continue reading “Save the monarch butterflies of Hudson County”
Dear Editor: I live in Hoboken. Last week I had a nice conversation with a gentleman in the Hoboken Path Station about how my sister, who just passed away, used to send money to St. Jude’s charity hospital for children. I told him I was going to send money there in the near future. It …
Dear Editor: Heroin overdoses are on the rise across the country, and New Jersey is not immune. According to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), heroin use has increased across the US among men and women, most age groups, and all income levels. The report found that the strongest …
Continue reading “Heroin overdoses surge according to CDC and Rx abuse to blame”
Dear Editor: On behalf of the Town Council and myself, I would like to thank Home Depot for their partnership with the Town of Secaucus during the Violet Kieck Project. This project has truly been a labor of love. I would like to acknowledge Matt Keating – Home Depot District Mgr., Kathy Tipia-Store Mgr. Secaucus …
Dear Editor: Ron Lowe (Letters, June 28) wants to convince us that we’ll be better off electing a Democrat, rather than a Republican, for president in 2016. Really? Well, according to Ralph Nader and others who tell the truth, there is only a “dime’s worth of difference” between the political parties. Both are ruled by …
Dear Editor: On behalf of Mayor Michael J. Gonnelli and the Secaucus Town Council, we would like to extend our thanks to everyone who helped to make the 2015 Resident Art Show such a wonderful success. We appreciate the hard work and dedication of our curators Melissa Dargan Heintjes, Doug DePice, and Sylvia Katende. We …
Dear Editor: Forgive a proud grandfather for telling this story, but I think it deserves to be told because too often we only hear stories of youngsters who get in trouble. My 14-year-old grandson, Sahil Padmesh Patel, has been a high honor roll student through all the years he has been eligible for that distinction …