Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: What ever happened to the good old days when the worst things we had to fear on Memorial Day were traffic jams and indigestion? This year, it’s all about food poisoning by the nasty E. coli, Salmonella, and Listeria bugs lurking in hamburgers, hot dogs, and chicken nuggets at millions of backyard barbecues. …
Dear Editor: Nothing new under the sun, claimed Ecclesiastes, and maybe, then, a long time ago, when life crept along at a slower pace, there wasn’t. But there is now, in Hoboken. When you walk down the street, you see every other person walking along carrying a drink of some kind. You didn’t see that …
Dear Editor: In New Jersey, 1.2 million workers do not have the ability to earn sick days. Earned sick days can reduce emergency room visits, saving $1.1 billion a year nationally. Parents with paid sick days are 20 percent less likely to send a sick child to school, reducing the likelihood that their child’s illness …
Dear Editor: I recently realized that I have lived more than 25,000 days and nights, yet I can not recall a single one. Not even the one freshest in memory, yesterday. Well, I do remember a lot of it—when I got up, what I ate for breakfast, what I did after breakfast, who I saw …
Dear Editor: In New Jersey, 1.2 million workers do not have the ability to earn sick days. Earned sick days can reduce emergency room visits, saving $1.1 billion a year nationally. Parents with paid sick days are 20 percent less likely to send a sick child to school, reducing the likelihood that their child’s illness …
Dear Editor: As some of your readers may know, April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. While highlighting this important issue once a year is a good thing, it is not effective unless its message is practiced every day. New Jersey is one of 18 states in the country in which every citizen is considered a …
Dear Editor: The Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) was founded in 1986 when residents of Bloomington, Indiana, rallied around a toddler who needed a life-saving liver transplant. In less than eight weeks, the community raised $100,000 to place the boy on the organ waiting list. But the child died before an organ became available. Those …
Dear Editor: I am a great supporter of Senator Bob Menendez. He stands for the people of New Jersey and for the United States of America. I’ve had the privilege of attending Senator Bob Menendez’s Women’s History Month celebration and can say, with 100 percent certainty, that New Jersey women are better off because Bob …
Dear Editor: If you were unable to attend CAST’s one night only production of Pen Pals on March 28th, a play written and directed by our own Artistic Director, Michael Griffo, you truly missed a treat. We are amazed again and again at the amount of talent we have in our group. Bringing community theater …
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Dear Editor: Permit me once again to point out Mayor Gonnelli’s arrogance/ignorance when it comes to making an off the cuff response to anyone that he believes to be a nemesis for past political happenings. At the March 10th council meeting, after the mayor and I had wrangled over his sincerity in regard to his …