Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: It was about a year ago that the Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) began mailing its first batch of Skip the Trip notices to our customers, affording a majority of New Jersey citizens the opportunity to renew their driver’s licenses or non-driver IDs by mail. The Christie Administration and the MVC are pleased to …
Dear Editor: Last weekend the drinking water of 400,000 Toledo residents was fouled by animal waste. With unfettered growth of animal agriculture and ineffective discharge regulations, it will happen again in our own state. The problem has become pervasive. Waste from chicken farms has rendered ocean off the East Coast unfit for fishing. Waste from …
Dear Editor: The massive movement of unaccompanied children from Central America across our southern border has the potential for massive exploitation and trafficking of those children. All these unaccompanied children are extremely vulnerable to being exploited and trafficked both in the U.S. and on their way to our border for sex trafficking and sex tourism. …
Dear Editor: The hot dog days of summer herald mark my beginning another street by street count of trees and their kind in Union City. As I did some years ago, I invite Mayor Stack and his Board of Commissioners to participate. More important, I invite residents of the community to join in. Specifically if …
Dear Editor: As a member of your community, I value sharing opportunities that positively affect the world. I volunteer with AFS-USA, a trusted leader in intercultural high school student exchange for more than 65 years. AFS organizes and supports intercultural learning experiences for thousands of students and their families in more than 90 countries, and …
Dear Editor: I would like to acknowledge the recent retirement of Stanley M. Sanger, the Union City school system superintendent, who left the district as of June 30, 2014. I have had the honor of knowing Mr. Sanger for the past 41 years; 4 as a high school student while I attended Emerson High School, …
Dear Editor: Officer Melvin Santiago did not serve in my small town. He served on the mean streets of Jersey City where he lost his life in the line of duty to a deranged thug who claimed with high arrogance, “I’m going to be famous.” Really? Not through any help from me; I refuse to …
Dear Editor: This summer don’t forget the sun screen. Also, don’t forget the young men that went to the beaches of Normandy, France some 70 years ago. They didn’t go with sun screen to sunbathe on Utah Beach. Nor did they go with swimsuits to swim at Omaha Beach. They went with backpacks loaded with …
Dear Editor: The great American patriot Thomas Paine once wrote, “These are times that try men’s souls.” His words today are more meaningful than ever. The famous words of Nathan Hale, a 21 yr. old school teacher about to be hung, “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” …
Dear Editor: How few does a group of people have to be not to matter? How many do they have to number in order to be recognized and respected by state officials? A substantial minority of people in New Jersey still depend exclusively on landline phone service. Most have depended on their landline phones for …