Hudson Reporter Archive

Dear Editor: In 1997, the New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise (NJCAAN), the Alliance of Municipalities Concerning Air Traffic (AMCAT), and the League for the Hard of Hearing initiated public discussion on airport noise as it affects’s health and learning. As a consequence, the Port Authority agreed this month to soundproof one local school. It …

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Dear Editor: Cold weather has arrived and the time has come to get ready for another winter. The State of New Jersey Domestic Companion Animal Council asks your readers to think about their pets’ needs also for the cold months ahead. In New Jersey, state law (4:22-17) mandates that any animal in a person’s care …

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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 …

Continue reading “Please! Don’t touch inner city parkland”

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. …

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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 …

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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 …

Continue reading “Let’s keep the noise level down”

Dear Editor: In 1997, the New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise (NJCAAN), the Alliance of Municipalities Concerning Air Traffic (AMCAT), and the League for the Hard of Hearing initiated public discussion on airport noise as it affects’s health and learning. As a consequence, the Port Authority agreed this month to soundproof one local school. It …

Continue reading “PA must agree to soundproof all schools affected by aircraft noise”

Dear Editor: Cold weather has arrived and the time has come to get ready for another winter. The State of New Jersey Domestic Companion Animal Council asks your readers to think about their pets’ needs also for the cold months ahead. In New Jersey, state law (4:22-17) mandates that any animal in a person’s care …

Continue reading “Attend to your pets’ needs for the frigid months ahead”

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 …

Continue reading “Garbage will travel through Hudson”