Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: As a New Jersey physician, I am dedicated to my patients and the health of our state. My top priority is the health and well-being of the residents of New Jersey. Over the past several years we have seen too many New Jersey families impacted by addiction – addiction to opiate pain killers, …
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Dear Editor: To me, my parents are the great American success story. Born and raised in Haiti during the height of a dictatorship and economic hardship, my parents quickly learned the value of saving even the smallest amount. They migrated to Brooklyn in the 1980s and immediately started working and saving. My mother studied nursing, …
Continue reading “Secure choice means another chapter of success for many”
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: 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 …
Dear Editor: Permit me to lead this letter with gratitude to this newspaper for publishing my letters about the plight of the Monarch Butterfly. At 1:45 p.m. on August 10, Megan’s small butterfly garden in dense Union City, recorded its first Monarch butterfly. Megan verified it with a photograph. I, myself, witnessed it from my …
Continue reading “Let’s bring back the Monarch Butterfly to Union City”
Dear Editor: With support from Mayor Stack and Board of Commissioners, Union City has a Farmer’s Market from June until September. This will prove to be a healthful alternative to junk food and spur interest in sustainability. Thank you Mayor Stack. Residents might be interested in the plight of our native orange and black butterfly, …
Dear Editor: I am writing to express my opposition to NJ Transit’s proposed 9 percent fare increases and potential service adjustments. As a Mayor and Senator in Hudson County, I am well aware of the negative impact this will have on my constituents. Hudson County residents are already struggling with a high cost of living. …
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: 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”
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”