Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: I love living in Hoboken. I have loved feeling safe when I walk home alone from work in the evenings, since there are always people either coming home or going out to socialize. It is also assuring to see many cops walking the beat. Last week, this feeling of safety was shattered, and …
Dear Editor: Rent control should not be a partisan issue since it impacts our community across the board. The recent suggested changes in the Rent Control Law represent a bandaid approach offering minimal protection to current tenants. What it does not do is protect the future prospects for working families to be able to ever …
Continue reading “Changes in Rent Control Law; is Hoboken closing its doors to working families?”
Dear Editor: During the public debate concerning the proposed development of 1600 Park Avenue, one of the issues that kept surfacing was noise; noise from construction and especially from increased traffic. Because of the small scale of our town, we are , all of us, essentially at street level as far as noise is concerned. …
Continue reading “Lowering the noise level will keep Hobokenites healthy”
Dear Editor: There’s no celebrating Lincoln this Presidents’ Day for me. Day! Remember when workers used to get two days, one for Lincoln, one for Washington? Not to mention the good old days not long ago when only one person with a job could support a family? Talk about noses to the grindstone! And Uncle …
Continue reading “No celebrating Lincoln’s birthday for me!”
Dear Editor: “All Or Nothing At All” was Frank Sinatra’s first hit in 1940 with Tommy Dorsey. My goal always was a museum in Hoboken worthy of Mr. Sinatra for the city to build on the culture of our town and to preserve a way of life. Mr. Crimmins, Business Administrator and Planning Board lawyer …
Dear Editor: The Great Train Race (1/30/2000) is 20 years too late. Myself and others have tried to bring a train museum to Liberty State Park for years. The biggest blunder Jersey City made was when Steamtown in Vermont closed and the politicians in Jersey had the opportunity to move the historic train collection to …
Dear Editor: The 2000 Census which will be the largest peace-time mobilization in U.S. history, is about to begin. Over 1,500 workers will be needed to reach the 560,000 residents throughout Hudson County. And, you are needed to make it a success. The Census Bureau needs your help to recruit candidates for census taker positions …
Continue reading “Census 2000 temporary job openings, testing and recruitment begins”
Dear Editor: The greatest gift that God gave mankind is our children. The most important gift we can give our children is a good education, so parents used to monitor their homework. In 1858, Edwin A. Stevens gave to Hoboken two public schools, and then he created the Stevens Institute, so that we in Hoboken …
Continue reading “Children are our most important commodity”
Dear Editor: This Wednesday, Feb 16, 2000, the mayor and council could pass amendments to Hoboken’s Rent Control Ordinance that could deprive many tenants of their rights under rent control and could result in their eviction from their homes. The proposed amendments to rent control contain two new ways that landlords can jack up rents …
Continue reading “Show up Wednesday to fight rent control amendments”
Dear Editor: Jon Gordon, we are about to make your dreams come true. We all know how badly you desire to be elected to something again. Who could forget the mess you left the one time you were elected? Well, you have been unanimously voted the winner of your Mile Square Fool Award! Although all …