Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: The January 11th budget meeting must have been my 13th or 14th but it was the best scapegoating charade I’ve seen. As I sat there, I watched union officials and council members blame the state for not giving Jersey City enough inflation adjusted aid. But then I remembered the April 13, 1999 budget …
Dear Editor: Mayor Schundler has been using the excuse of adjusted inflation to justify the city’s fiscal problems. He blames the state for loss of revenue but his statements are without merit. I, like many others, keep copies of former tax bills. On the first quarter of every year is a box called “State Aid …
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Dear Editor: Amidst an unsettled municipal FY2000 budget crisis Jersey City, after seven years, has received the final payment from the bulk lien sales of 1993 and 1994. In an exchange of letters between a citizen and Mayor Schundler in the local daily last month the mayor defended his part in the bulk lien sales …
Dear Editor: Recently, I received a plea for help from Rev. Joseph R. Parrish Jr. of St. John’s Church in Elizabeth. The City of New York, it seems, is sending tons of garbage daily to that New Jersey city. Governor Whitman had given the City of New York a three-year period allowing this activity. New …
Dear Editor: Because polls show that Boobus Americanus is one of the world’s most religious species (figures: got the most bombs and enemies, too), this election-year’s passel of pandering politicians have been falling all over themselves to be on the safe side of this issue as well. All this talk of Jesus and being “born …
Dear Editor: Your December 19 letters column carried a letter from Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler (School choices raise some questions) replying to a letter of mine, which in turn, was a reply to a letter of his. This missive contained a few errors that I would like to correct. He writes that his original …
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Dear Editor: Did you know that public school nurses in Hudson County possess a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree, with approximately 20 percent possessing a Master’s Degree and nearly 25 percent are enrolled in a Master’s Program? In addition to the School Nurse Certification, many school nurses are certified in other health-related fields including community …
Dear Editor: Citizens of Hudson County beware! Your precious and irreplaceable urban open space is under attack, and by none other than an undoubtedly sincere but misguided and overzealous Board of Education together and the township of North Bergen! It seems that as a lesson in preserving open space, protecting the environment as well as …
Dear Editor: During 1999, I attended over 110 civic meetings in Hudson and Bergen Counties to discuss energy deregulation as legislated in the Electric Discount and Energy Competition Act. This Act created a new energy marketplace for New Jersey. Where there was once a monopoly, there is competition – and important choices to be made. …
Continue reading “Electricity choices can affect the environment”
Dear Editor: In this day and age, where technology is advancing at an exponential pace, where, more and more people are obtaining higher degrees of education and where the media bombards the public with news regarding discrimination, it is amazing and appalling to know that racial, ethnic, religious, gender, and other biases are still in …
Continue reading “Will Dr. King’s ‘dream’ ever become ‘reality’?”