Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
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: 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: 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 …
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 …
Last week, pashmina found its way onto the ubiquitous spectacle Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? The $2,000 question went something like this: “What is the trendy women’s accessory pashmina? A. high heel shoe, B. henna tattoo, C. cashmere shawl, or D. mohair sweater.” When the sweet-faced teacher decided to ask the audience, the camera …
Continue reading “Spring fashion: Polka dots replace pashminas – at least for one season”
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’?”
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: My name is Elizabeth Cohen and I am the coordinator of the Hoboken Chapter of the Million Mom March. The Million Mom March is a planned march on Washington D.C. on Mother’s Day, May 14, 2000. The purpose of the march is to rally mothers and others from all over the United States …
Dear Editor: The Alliance of Municipalities Concerning Air Traffic and the New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise would like to thank Dr. Arline L. Bronzaft for working with citizens and educators in South Hackensack in stressing the detrimental effects of aircraft noise on students’ learning. Her presentation before the Board of Education in December 1997 …