Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
An open letter to the citizens of Hoboken:On Wednesday, March 1, 2000, the City Council passed amendments to the Rent Control (RC) Law which are very dangerous to tenants. They are due to go into effect on March 20, 2000. If these amendments go into effect, hundreds of apartments will be decontrolled on vacancy, giving …
Dear Editor: I have written to your paper before about the upcoming march on Washington called the Million-Mom March. The march is being held to demonstrate our concern for the need for more stringent gun control in this country. The march will be on Sunday, May 14, 2000, Mother’s Day and we are hoping to …
Dear Editor: Once again we watch with utter horror a news story about a child gunning down another child. Today’s shooting du jour of a six-year-old girl by a six-year-old classmate in a Michigan elementary school has left me feeling deeply saddened and horrified, but unfortunately not surprised. What kind of world do we live …
Dear Editor: Once again we watch with utter horror a news story about a child gunning down another child. Today’s shooting du jour of a six-year-old girl by a six-year-old classmate in a Michigan elementary school has left me feeling deeply saddened and horrified, but unfortunately not surprised. What kind of world do we live …
Dear Editor: Good news for Bergen County citizens. Governor Whitman, November 10, 1999, Representative Roukema, January 28, 2000 and County Executive Schuber, January 10, 2000, have written Federal Aviation Administrator Garvey requesting live-testing of ocean routing. Representative Rothman is conspicuously absent from this list of respected elected officials representing Bergen County. The widely supported New …
Dear Editor: March 19-25, 2000 is National Poison Prevention Week. In lieu of this important subject, the Independent Insurance Agents of New Jersey would like to offer tips on the prevention of one very serious, but common type of poisoning, lead poisoning. When most people think of lead poisoning, they think of old houses with …
Dear Editor: Public Service Electric and Gas Company, New Jersey’s largest electric and gas delivery utility, with thousands of employees at work in neighborhoods across the state, is concerned about reports of strangers gaining access to homes in its service territory by posing as PSE&G employees. In a recent incident in Hamilton Township, a man …
Dear Editor: Have you ever printed a letter to the editor from a “dead man?” On December 27, 1998, I was clinically dead, but thanks to a policeman and an automated external defibrillator (A-E-Ds), I’m alive and writing this letter. American Heart Month, which was February, has focused on strengthening the chain of survival through …
It has long been our belief at the Hudson Reporter that the letters-to-the-editor page belongs to you, our readers. The page is a forum where you can voice your thoughts, problems, praise, perceived injustices, thank-yous, and opinions on issues. Our policy of printing unsigned letters is an attempt to protect authors concerned with possible retribution …
Dear Editor: I have written to your paper before about the upcoming march on Washington called the Million-Mom March. The march is being held to demonstrate our concern for the need for more stringent gun control in this country. The march will be on Sunday, May 14, 2000, Mother’s Day and we are hoping to …