Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: In a Letter to the Editor dated March 5, 2000, J. F. Perez states that the ocean routing plan New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise (NJCANN) is advocating is the same one I endorsed in 1998. That is not the case. Their plan involves Runway 4 and, according to the estimates of NJCANN’s …
Continue reading “Fighting the good fight on aircraft noise”
Dear Editor: If you think “huffing” is just something the Three Little Pigs had to watch out for, the wolf may come knocking at your door. Huffing, bagging and sniffing are terms for inhalant use, a cheap, legal and accessible way that young people in our community are getting high. When we think of drugs, …
Continue reading “March is National Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Month”
Dear Editor: Is that the New Jersey portion of the national tobacco settlement going up in smoke? As president of the American Heart Association and as a New Jersey cardiologist, I’m extremely disappointed in New Jersey’s proposed budget plan for the appropriation of the tobacco settlement money. Recommendations from members of the public health community, …
Continue reading “AHA urges more money for tobacco control programs”
Dear Editor: The tenants’ meeting of the Hoboken Housing Authority, as reported by the Hoboken Reporter, stood as a testament to the incompetency of an ideology that would sanction the HHA and public housing in general. To deride late fees for non-payment of rent and additional fees for the operation of electrical appliances as “unconstitutional” …
An open letter to the Mayor: I’m the person who offended everyone at the February 2 City Council meeting with my “anti-Italian” slur. What I said was — and it’s a fact — a longtime Hoboken resident swindled me out of money in 1998, several hundred dollars’ worth; then told me that she could do …
Last week’s letter from Jeff Faria entitled “1600 Park Avenue controversy” contained an error. Faria’s original letter stated, “There is room to grow [in Hoboken], but the people who come here should not be callously evaluated as a source of traffic, sewage and trash, nor as cash cows to be milked.” The letter was erroneously …
Dear Editor: As Mayor, I would like to take this opportunity to address concerns many residents have expressed regarding the proposed development of 1600 Park Avenue. During the past few years, several proposals have come before the Hoboken Zoning Board of Adjustment suggesting various development configurations for this site. Originally, the developer wanted to build …
Dear Editor: Mr. DeRuggiero feels strongly about 1600 Park Avenue. And he should. He and other Realtors stand to profit handsomely by this and other huge complexes in Hoboken. And that’s fair; if I earned my living as a Realtor in this town, I might feel the same way. But I’m not, and most residents …
Continue reading “We need control on this side of the Lincoln Tunnel”
Dear Editor: I’ve often heard that visualization is an important and helpful way to understand just how something was going to turn out. I thought that in the interest of public concern it might be a good exercise to try and understand the situation involving some new development in our city. For space reasons we …
Dear Editor: I read with much surprise and disbelief in the Hoboken Reporter about Councilman David Roberts’ “challenge” for someone to point out a time that he ever maligned anyone. I’m surprised that he would issue such a challenge, because I know firsthand how David has a tendency to talk about other people behind their …
Continue reading “With ‘friends’ like you David, who needs ‘enemies’?”