‘KEEP INTERSECTION CLEAR’ To the Editor: As was recently reported in The Observer, a pedestrian was struck and killed…
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Thoughts & Views: A poet for Memorial Day
Joyce Kilmer, New Jersey native and long-time Garden State resident, is most famous for his poem “Trees,” memorized by…
Thoughts & Views: Sealing up the borders of our minds
There’s been a lot of talk among our lawmakers these days about how the U.S.A. should restrict the flow of…
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‘DON’T BE MISLED BY CAMPAIGN’ To the Editor: As a cofounder of Belleville United Coalition, a growing grassroots…
Thoughts & Views: Picture windows on the past
This week’s column is a thank-you to the Observer readers who have provided such positive feedback on our “Then & Now”…
Thoughts & Views: Football union could be ‘extra point’ this sport needs
Football players at Northwestern University, a Division 1 team in Evanston, Ill., may soon have a union to call their…
Thoughts & Views: Driven to fatal distraction
A few years ago, having picked up my brand new car at the dealership, I…
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THANKS FOR CARING To the Editor: To the dear friends of our beautiful mother, Barbara Gangi,…
CORRECTION
A story in the April 16 issue of The Observer incorrectly reported the amount of additional…
Thoughts & Views: Jeff Bahr: An Appreciation
In the movie, “The Misfits,” Gay, the cowboy character played by Clark Gable (in what…
Thoughts & Views: In harm’s way around the world
Anja Niedringhaus These days, when we’re used to getting our news so easily on the internet,…
Thoughts & Views: Once there was a ‘debris field’ in N.Y.
As the mystery and media feeding frenzy over Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continue, I have been…
CORRECTION
Last week’s story about Barbara Gangi, the beloved North Arlington waitress who was tragically killed while…
Thoughts & Views: Today, it’s Crimea, tomorrow, who knows?
Students of world history and geopolitics are likely burning the midnight oil these days, following the…
Thoughts & View: ‘Hereby you are notified . . . .’
Uh-oh. I’m in deep trouble. The following letter popped up in my email the other day:…
CORRECTION!
A story in the March 12 issue of The Observer misidentified Joseph Longo as president of…
Thoughts & Views: Time is overdue for an accounting
In July 2013 the Kearny Board of Education – spurred on by then-Superintendent of Schools…
Thoughts & Views: Get the drift? I love snow!
As I write this, the snow has begun to gently fall, once again blanketing streets…
Thoughts & Views: On the road again … and again … and again…
So 2016 could see two New Jerseyans vying for the highest office in the land.…
Thoughts & Views: Moments of triumph
Among the happy events associated with Mayor Raymond McDonough and his beloved Harrison in recent…
‘Sprung from cages on Highway 9’
Just twice in my life have I been frozen in my tracks because of music…
Thoughts & Views: Now his voice is still; rest easy, noble sir
We live in an era where most politicians and public figures – exceptions noted –…
Thoughts & Views: I’m not ‘bowled’ over by football
Believe it or not, there are some of us who don’t give a hoot in…
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To the editor, So soon again, I’d like to commend Chief James O’Connor and the Lyndhurst…
Thoughts & Views: ‘There is no Frigate like a Book’
When I was a kid growing up in Jersey City, we had a single first-run bookstore…
Thoughts & Views: Here’s looking at you, gov
Even before Gov. Chris Christie’s lengthy pity-party press conference last week on the George Washington Bridge…
CORRECTION!
A story in last week’s Observer mischaracterized Kearny Mayor Alberto Santos’s length of service as the…
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GIFTS APPRECIATED To the editor, I would like to thank all of the senior citizens and…
Thoughts & Views: Keys to my newspaper kingdom
On New Year’s Eve, a typewriter repairman in Manhattan hung up his ribbons, so to…
Thoughts & Views: Have yourself a merry Little Christmas
On Monday, the N.Y.C. Sanitation Department began its annual curbside pickups of discarded Christmas trees.…