Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: In an affront to all Americans and in defiance of the intent of our Constitution’s 18th and 19th amendment addressing voters’ rights, “voter suppression” continues and intensifies in a number of states. The intent of this shameful movement is to hinder and discourage from voting: minorities, i.e., Afro-Americans and Hispanics, the elderly, and …
Dear Editor: Currently more than 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease, including approximately 170,000 here in New Jersey. Those numbers will skyrocket by mid-century as the baby boomers age, unless a cure or effective treatment is found. I know first-hand the heartbreak Alzheimer’s can bring. As the Primary Caregiver for my mom for …
Dear Editor: I have always found the subject of number duplication to be fascinating. If you were to take $1 double it and each successive day each dollar doubled itself you would in thirty short days have amassed a fortune of $536,870,912. Numbers doubled and redoubled increase exponentially. In infectious disease, it quickly becomes apparent …
Continue reading “Number duplication, ebola and geopolitical life/death decisions”
Dear Editor: Experts at the NJ Poison Center urge parents and caregivers to be alert and take precautions to avoid dangerous mishaps while celebrating Halloween this year. Be sure to keep Trick-or-treaters safe! A topic unique to this time of year is the “accidental” ingestion of glow stick liquid. Often, “Parents call 9-1-1 or spend …
Continue reading “Ground rules for safe “Trick or Treating””
Dear Editor: Over half a million New Jerseyans are affected by Alzheimer’s disease – including individuals in the Bergen, Morris and Passaic County areas, who are either diagnosed with the disease or are caring for a loved one with it. You can register for the Northern Regional Walk to End Alzheimer’s, which takes place on …
Dear Editor: The fire service has the great grace to be one of society’s truly altruistic professions. The fire service exists to help, save, protect and keep safe the lives and property of the communities served. Every member of every community served by firefighters is safe in the knowledge that help will come whenever the …
Dear Editor: When I first began my internship at AARP, I had absolutely no idea how big of an issue caregiving is. Now I know that caregivers provide around $13 billion a year in unpaid services in New Jersey alone, and surely people that give that much deserve to get something back. This is why …
Continue reading “Focus on caregiving is warranted given how big its impact is”
Dear Editor: When I first began my internship at AARP, I had absolutely no idea how big of an issue caregiving is. Now I know that caregivers provide around $13 billion a year in unpaid services in New Jersey alone, and surely people that give that much deserve to get something back. This is why …
Continue reading “Focus on caregiving is warranted given how big its impact is”
Dear Editor: Or should the headline read; “Politics does make strange bed fellows.” The fact that former West New York Mayor Sal Vega received a $60,000 dollar a year job to serve as the new High Tech HS Director of Transportation is in no way disturbing to me unless his qualifications fall short of the …
Continue reading “What Ever Happened to Personal Integrity?”
Dear Editor: Tuesday August 12 a little before 6 p.m. – this will be a day I will never forget, for I lost my beautiful beagle mix to a speeding car, a driver going above the speed limit on my street of 77th street North Bergen NJ. I’d like to make it clear that I …
Continue reading “Disgusted – is there no justice for animals?”