Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: As we start the new year, we once again turn our attention to the process of filing our taxes. This year holds new hopes and opportunities for us. There are new programs available to save you money; money that you can use that will benefit your family and other loved ones. It is …
Continue reading “Note to those with low and moderate incomes”
Dear Editor: I am writing to let your readers know that I have decided to run for US Congress against Robert Menendez in November 2000. After examining Menendez’ voting record, I believe he is totally out of touch with the values of the people here in New Jersey and it’s time he is confronted. According …
Continue reading “Turner to run against Menendez in November 2000 election”
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: The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Or is it? There have been many pros and cons spoken lately about the proposed project slated for 1600 Park Avenue in Hoboken near the Weehawken border. Since I am the Realtor responsible for bringing the seller and the buyer together, I thought I’d share …
Continue reading “Accentuating the positive about project near border”
Dear Editor: As most readers of your publication know, Roseland Properties has submitted plans to the Weehawken Planning Board to build a mega-development on Weehawken’s waterfront. Many citizens of the township and citizen’s groups are opposing the proposed development in its current form, which includes high-rise residential and office towers set upon contaminated soil, which …
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 children’s health and learning. As a consequence, the Port Authority agreed this month to soundproof one local school. …
Continue reading “PA must agree to soundproof all schools affected by aircraft noise”
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 …
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: 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 a ‘reality’?”
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”