Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: As an officer of the Union City Neighborhood Association, I thank Peter Baso, president of the Washington Park Association, for inviting our group and residents around Union City’s Washington Park to join in their annual park planting of flowers, herbs, shrubs, and trees. Mayor Stack greatly aided this volunteer green initiative that beautified …
Dear Editor: It is so sad to see a person that benefits so much from this great country glorify Fidel Castro who for over fifty years has been a big hater of this country. Ossie Guillen was born in a poor setting back in Venezuela. Today he is a millionaire thanks to the opportunities he …
Continue reading “Appreciate the good deeds of this great country”
Dear Editor: Just in time for Earth Day, a study published in Environmental Research Letters warns that animal manure and fertilizers used in growing animal feed emit large amounts of nitrous oxide, a powerful greenhouse gas. An op-ed piece in this week’s New York Times warns that the devastating environmental impacts of a meat-based diet …
Continue reading “Environmentally sustainable food is a must”
Dear Editor: As a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and the New York Academy of Science, I am afforded access to information related to energy production and consumption, as well as climate change and the environment. There is a clear consensus among people who have access to the empirical data regarding these topics. …
Dear Editor: In Union City, with Cal Ripken Ballfield’s coming expansion and the destruction of some trees in that section of Washington Park, I realized the need to compile a checklist of bird species. What impact will the loss of mature, old trees have on bird habitat? On March 21st, I began this compilation to …
Dear Editor: The Union of Concerned Scientists have a plan to help us save on oil and our dependence on this nonrenewable resource. We consume over 20 percent of the world’s petroleum, yet we hold about 2 percent of the proven oil reserves. The Obama administration has taken action to cut U.S. oil consumerism by …
Continue reading “Improve our planet’s future, reverse the damage”
Dear Editor: I just received a note from my health insurance carrier. The note indicated that my monthly premiums, I am self-employed and therefore pay for my family’s coverage, will increase from $ 2,099.77 to $ 2,425.00 a month as of June 1st. The math is simple and rounded to the nearest thousand its $29,000.00 …
Dear Editor: I would like my children to inherit a world that is safe from environmental pollutants and where they will be self reliant and not dependent on toxic systems that destroy our world. We need to put our most brilliant minds to work on the technologies that enable us to provide our transportation and …
Dear Editor: With April 1 just around the corner, it appears that the meat industry is playing us as April Fools by hiding its violations of humane and sanitary laws. Under intense pressure from the meat lobby, Iowa and Utah have enacted the infamous “ag-gag” laws that criminalize taking or possessing photographs and videotapes documenting …
Dear Editor: This time of the year adoptees cannot help thinking about the message of re-birth that the season of spring and the holidays of Passover and Easter represent. As flowers blossom and we honor the most famous adoptee, Moses, and the resurrection of Jesus, many adoptees look inward and explore their own re-birth through …