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Category: Opinion
Whitehead documents the Kearny FD
By Kevin Canessa Jr. When I was still living in Florida, perhaps two years ago, I…
Letter: Hey councilman, ‘Where’ve you been these past few years?’
To the Editor: As an avid reader of The Observer and a member of the Kearny…
Delinquency in the animal world
Last week, The Observer published an article advising people not to try to "rescue" seemingly abandoned…
‘Patriotism pay’ recalls true patriot
By Ron Leir So the National Football League is giving back the $720,000 it got from…
Opinion: Simply listening could lead to a life saved
By Kevin Canessa Jr. A little more than a week ago, everything changed for one family…
Migrants of all kinds, legacy & peppy poet
By Ron Leir The civil strife that has torn apart so many countries in the Middle…
Uber & Lyft may be the best inventions of the 21st century
By Kevin Canessa Jr. I’ve said it before and will continue to believe it — two…
Slavery fled when they fell in the foggy dew
By Karen Zautyk “As down the glen one Easter morn to a city fair rode I…
Opinion: If you see something, say something
By Ron Leir On March 28, a New York State inmate named Winston Moseley died at…
Reform of mental health care is direly needed
By Kevin Canessa Jr. A few weeks from now, it will have been 17 years since…
If ya got ‘em, don’t chew ‘em
By Ron Leir With the baseball season upon us, the New York City Council has seized…
Havana is her haven
By Karen Zautyk By the time you read this, our President should have wrapped up his…
2016 W.H. St. Patrick’s Day Parade didn’t disappoint
When I first knew, for sure, I’d be coming back to Kearny after spending four years…
A college ‘tax’ & other thoughts
It’s no secret these days that a lot of municipalities are hurting for cash, especially…
Letter: Davis Ave. toughed out the snow
To the Editor: The Friday before the snowstorm of January 2016, the Davis Ave. residents received…
Bully for a presidential bear!
By Karen Zautyk The cartoon that accompanies this week’s column is by Clifford Berryman and first appeared…
Letter to the Editor: Great job plowing Harrison’s snow
To the Editor: We are writing because we think it is important for the people to…
Brodeur and the Mets: Perfect together
Aside from the race for The White House, which I am never going to address on…
Stakes in race for POTUS even higher now following Scalia’s death
The stakes in the U.S. presidential contest have just escalated to a new level, now…
How much ground could a groundhog hog?
Late last Tuesday night, the doorbell rang. I peered out the window and, to my surprise, there stood a friend…
Weathering the storm of ‘news’
Thank goodness that’s over. Until the next time. I’m not talking about the blizzard, per se, but rather the media frenzy…
Thoughts & Views: King’s ‘Dream’ speech still relevant today
Given that Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday, we would do well to recall a mesmerizing…
Thoughts & Views: Remembering former Kearny Police Chief Tim Sharples, dead at 67
First, he’d park his car — a Chevy Impala or whatever it was at the time — on the…
Gone with the winds
As Christmas approached, all talk appeared to be about the weather. How warm it was. How sunny. How lovely. (Though to…
Thoughts & Views: So, ya wanna fight?
The Christmas / Chanukah / Kwanza/ Festivus holiday season is supposed to be a time when we all can take…
WE’VE GOT MAIL
‘THANK YOU’ To the Editor: As mayor, and on behalf of the Lyndhurst Board of Commissioners, I would…
Murphy case typifies church inaction
I grew up Catholic. And, having gone to Catholic schools for a few years, I, like many other…
Thoughts & Views: To the NRA: Keep doing what you’re doing
Have you ever heard of something called a “community gun”? We learned about this not too long ago after one…
WE’VE GOT MAIL
‘REOPEN THE FIREHOUSE’ To the editor, I am certain that all of you now know that another…