Wednesday, November 14, 2012
True problem is with JCP&L, Kathlyn Carter writes.
Dear Editor, I have received many personal and mean-spirited attacks for defending Mayor Short. Some attackers assume that the Mayor’s supporters are family members or friends. I am neither. Some assume that we must have gotten our power back quicker. My power came back Sunday, 11/11/2012 at approx. 7:00 p.m. I don’t agree with Mayor Short on everything (uh Mayor, whatever happened to paving my street?). But not much can be accomplished if disagreeing about one issue = disagreeing about everything. I understand the frustration experienced by many not knowing where and how to get information about what was going on. I remember the feeling very well from last year. With no home telephone lines, no web access, no television, no way to re-…
Monday, October 1, 2012
Whippany resident responds to recent 'Letter to the Editor' criticizing congressman.
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Monday, October 1, 2012
To the Editor: In response to "Veteran Questions Frelinghuysen's Voting Record" dated Sept. 28, 2012 This issue again? I am always amused that partisan opponents of our Congressman, Rodney Frelinghuysen, think they can curry favor with the voters by attacking a fellow veteran with a distinguished record of service. Sure, anyone can take a few votes out of context in a career filled with thousands of votes. But the truth of the matter is that I know of no other veteran who thinks Mr. Frelinghuysen doesn’t care about veterans or does them any ill. In fact, talk to any of the veterans leaders in this area and they will tell you they are proud to stand alongside Frelinghuysen. Actually, Mr. Foley’s attacks are not amusing. They are a sad …
Friday, September 28, 2012
John Paul Foley attended a town hall meeting in Roseland in June, where U.S. Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen was in attendance.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
To the Editor: I attended a town hall meeting on Saturday, June 23, 2012, at the Roseland Municipal Building that was conducted by Rodney Frelinghuysen, the Congressman representing NJ’s 11th district. As a veteran who served this country, I have a special interest in understanding how and why our representatives vote on issues of war, the military, and veterans’ affairs. I asked Congressman Frelinghuysen three questions about his voting record: Congressman Frelinghuysen never answered the first question. With respect to the second two, he replied as follows: “Veterans should never be second class citizens. I’ve always voted to support health care and job training for veterans.” When asked the third question, the Congressman actually …
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Long Valley resident frustrated by board's new meeting structure.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Dear Editor, I was caught off guard at the West Morris Regional Board of Education meeting Monday night with the change in procedure. In the past, the Board would meet in Executive Session to have discussions not open to the public, such as personnel and legal matters, after the regular Board meeting. At the meeting Monday night the Board went into Executive Session at 8:45 p.m. before the public had a second chance to offer issues, concerns, or to ask any additional questions. We were all asked to leave the meeting and to return in 45 minutes. I find this action of limiting discussion, and discouraging public comments to be rude. It is just wrong. We were welcomed back into the meeting at 10:05 p.m., one hour and twenty minutes later. The…
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Organization's housing alliance reps grateful to keep affordable housing funding.
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
The following Letter to the Editor was submited by the United Way of Northern New Jersey Just four months ago, United Way of Northern New Jersey Housing Alliance representatives approached local state legislators, Sen. Anthony R. Bucco and Assemblyman Anthony M. Bucco, with a simple appeal. We asked them to help keep $22 million of funding earmarked for affordable housing in Morris County rather than forfeiting it to plug holes in the state budget. The father-and-son team heard the merits and filed common-sense legislation to keep the funding in our county. Co-sponsors have joined the effort and our Morris County freeholders have lent their support, too. We applaud our elected officials for seeing the need for affordable housing in our …
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Resident says political newcomer can help taxpayers.
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Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Editor, The majority of jobs created in America today come from small business entrepreneurs, but these small businesses remain suffocated by the burdens of taxes, regulations to comply with cap and trade, and a lack of commercial lending. Cap and trade will cause electricity rates to necessarily skyrocket. Under the Obama Administration there has been a concerted effort to attack American industry. Every major corporation, from Boeing to Intel to Gibson Guitar to oil companies and the health care sector as a whole have been harassed by Obama Czars, the Justice Department, and other federal agencies. The biggest suppressant of job creation in America today is the specter of Obama-care and its multitude of new mandates and burdens placed on…
Jason Koestenblatt
10:16 am on Friday, November 16, 2012
To everyone who has commented on this article, First and foremost, thanks so much for weighing in on this topic. The two weeks that Washington Township endured during and after Sandy were historic, and nothing short of incredible. I decided to close the comments section on this post for numerous reasons. While some comments were still on topic, too many were going astray and attacking others. I'… more ›