Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: This is a response to letters by J. Hernandez and R. Anthony Squire regarding the idea of planting pollinator gardens around Union City. Back in early summer, I exchanged email with our mayor, requesting that he consider doing exactly that. I suggested a pollinator garden in some of the space around the new …
Dear Editor: A charity in England is hoping to trace any descendants of a New Jersey man whose memory lives on by helping families in their time of need. The EC Roberts Centre in Portsmouth, Hampshire, is named after Ernest Cullen Roberts Jr. He was born in Hoboken on November 14 1896, the son of …
Dear Editor: Props this week go to Joanne Hernandez, General Manager, Doric Apartments Corp. for responding to my personal appeal to plant flowers beneficial to pollinating insects like bees and to a lesser extent, butterflies. To my knowledge, Union City does not have one designated Monarch Waystation, a resting and feeding stop for this butterfly. …
Dear Editor: Although Boulevard East has the potential to be a beautiful walkway, it has become, in several areas a litter box where dog owners walk their dogs and allow them to defecate and urinate anywhere and everywhere along the sidewalk. The significant number of dogs in our town has lead to extremely soiled sidewalks. …
Dear Editor: When I first heard about the upcoming weekend PATH closures on the 33rd Street line, like many of you, I was disappointed. As was noted on the Reporter’s website on June 9, PATH service on the weekend 33rd Street line will be suspended from 12:01 a.m. on Saturdays until 5 a.m. on Mondays …
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Dear Editor: Women’s earnings are ever more important to their families. More than 40 percent of children under 18 live in households where the mother is the sole breadwinner. Yet, women still earn on 79 cents to every dollar earned by men. This means that women who are often working multiple jobs and caring in …
Dear Editor: What a pity (Consent and sex on campus, April 24) that young men have to be “counseled” about when a girl means yes and when she means no. All over the country, one hears, campus sexual assault is a serious problem. A serious problem! In my day it wasn’t. So what’s going on? …
Dear Editor: I’ve been a voter for 37 years and am one of the 2.6 million New Jersey voters who have chosen not to affiliate with a political party. We make up 48 percent of the NJ electorate, significantly more than the two major parties with Democrats comprising 32 percent and Republicans 20 percent. Independents …
Dear Editor: Come on, Al. There is nothing “alleged” about the Clinton DNA on Monica’s crinkly blue dress that has been subtly immortalized in Nelson Shank’s portrait of Slick Willy hanging in the Smithsonian. There is nothing alleged either in Hillary’s vicious bullying of the many women who were victims of Bill’s voracious predations. Al …
Dear Editor: Super wealthy Americans have only themselves to blame if they are perturbed by Bernie Sanders’s strong showing in this year’s presidential campaign. When will today’s One Percent understand what their more enlightened predecessors figured out after World War II?: Enabling workers to prosper by offering full-time jobs which pay decent wages makes our …