Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: There are 1.75 million family caregivers in New Jersey who provide more than 1 billion hours of unpaid care each year to help an aging loved one live independently at home. Families are the bedrock of our long term care health care system. While invaluable in myriad of ways, in terms of dollars …
Dear Editor: I’m concerned about the potential safety issue which is occurring outside my home which is right across the street from our municipal high school in Union City. Motorized carts which belong to the Board of Education are now being used on our local street to transport young men who are apparently able bodied …
Dear Editor: March 23, 2014 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the war in Kosovo. Eight years prior to that, was an endless stream of atrocities from that part of the world. The systematic rape and impregnating of the Kosovo women was most appalling. The murder of forty boys and men was also attributed to the …
Dear Editor: On Tuesday, February 18th, a fast moving 5-alarm fire ripped through a multi-family home in Weehawken. The fire began on the first floor of the three story building and soon engulfed the entire structure. A total of 11 individuals were displaced and at least two adjacent buildings were damaged by smoke and water. …
Dear Editor: In reply to that smarmy writer for the New Yorker Magazine, whom you wrote about in your February 9 article, I have a few things to tell him. First, his ignorance is manifest by the fact that he doesn’t know that there are far more pigs in Iowa than in New Jersey. Second, …
Dear Editor: According to a recent internet story which appeared courtesy of Hudson County TV. I find it extremely upsetting that due to an order of the state our neighborhood police precinct at 27th St. and Bergenline as Union City has been permanently closed. Didn’t our great city last year receive 2.8 million dollars from …
Dear Editor: I was always of the belief that some people get into politics for all the right reasons. Some want to help their community, some may want to right certain wrongs and some just want to do good. But as history shows a lot of these people once caught up in the system give …
Dear Editor: You maybe familiar with some of the individual energy saving’s standards. There are 25, about half of the states that have adopted them. In NJ these standards exist in theory but not in practice. Every year more funding is pulled from the program. This is costing our state in terms of poorer economic …
Dear Editor: The following is an open letter to Governor Christopher Christie Dear Governor Christie: The following are good reasons why you should not continue in the Governorship. Regardless of your good work and obvious political skills, you remain blind to what defines power abuse in “ends justifying means”. Your legal actions alone, demonstrate a …
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Dear Editor: If my granddaughter spent hundreds of her hard-earned money for a phone that only worked 39 percent of the time, I would tell her she was being foolish. If my son spent his hard-earned money on a car that only worked 39 percent of the time, I would tell him he was being …
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