Some years, it’s brutally cold. Sometimes, it’s downright wet. But the 2025 St. Patrick’s Day Parade…
Category: Editorial
It’s time for our annual New Year wish list and predictions
How is it 2025? I can’t be the only one who has said this more than…
As we reach Christmas, here’s hoping for better days
It has been, to say the very least, a trying December, in this neck of the…
EDITORIAL — Remembering Det. Joseph Seals & Douglas Miranda as we approach 5th anniversary of their deaths
It only took a few minutes to realize something significant was happening Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019,…
The election of 2025 in Kearny could be like something not seen here in decades
With the election of 2024 over, it is already time to turn to the next one…
COMMENT — Waging a ‘write-in’ candidacy after losing a primary the epitome of arrogance
You likely won’t know this since this was yet another little stunt being played out of…
COMMENTARY — Video of teens beating up other teens is disgusting
If you haven’t yet seen them, they’re disturbing. Last week, videos from several social media platforms…
EDITORIAL — Nutley’s reinvented Neighborhood Watch should set the way
Last week, Nutley Police Chief Tom Strumolo, Det. Lt. Anthony Montanari, and Public Safety Commissioner Alphonse…
Actions of some on county committee were shameful and quite embarrassing
Over and over in the last election, we kept hearing this term bantered about. It was…
Was there anything, really, to be thankful for this Thanksgiving? Well …
Every year around Thanksgiving, without fail, inevitably, I pause and think about the year gone by…
COMMENTARY: Ficeto (finally) takes seat as DPW (and police) chairman
Things sure do have a funny way of working out for the better. Four months after…
Thank you, Anthony Monteiro, for your remarkable service to East Newark
We’ve all heard it before. East Newark is small. Blink while you’re driving through it and…
EDITORIAL — Parking permits, parking utility, will do nothing to improve … parking
Have you had enough time to digest the proposed parking plans in the Town of Kearny?…
COMMENTARY — Archdiocese & NJ Reentry Corp. hit grand slam with new addiction program
Last week, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, the archbishop of Newark and James E. McGreevey, New Jersey’s…
COMMENTARY — Penalties for those who SWAT police need to be swift & severe, regardless of perp’s age
Last week, someone — it’s not clear who it is, yet, but it will be soon—…
Brilliant thinking of 3 Kearny cops leads to arrest of alleged murderer
Imagine this. It’s dark. It’s late at night. You’re a cop. And there appears to be…
The Hudson Reporter’s demise is nothing to celebrate. It’s maddening
Friday, Jan. 20, 2023, was the day The Hudson Reporter newspapers died. What was once a…
COMMENTARY — A year ago, Pronti’s words rang strong. They still do to this very day …
The tragic loss of Baby Giovanna remained on my mind for days on end after it…
EDITORIAL — Last week’s blotter must not tarnish all the good things at Kearny HS
Last week’s police blotter spoke of three juveniles who were arrested for crimes they committed on…
EDITORIAL — It’s time to look ahead to what could happen in the New Year (predictions)
Happy New Year, everyone! It’s time, once again, to look ahead to the New Year with…
Such sweet sorrow saying ‘farewell’ to McCurrie and Cardoso
I first met Albino Cardoso around 1998 when I took a shot at running for office. We lived…
Marking World Aids Day – December 1
World AIDS day always reminds me of my past, because I have seen far too many…
EDITORIAL — West Hudson: Prepare for a new battle v. Murphy
Hi Gov. Murphy, it’s us, again, the people of Kearny and greater West Hudson and…
What is going on in East Newark? 4 admins in 2 years?
Ron Leir has a story in this week’s edition of The Observer that explains how Fred…
COMMENTARY — Remembering how sports united a region & nation
One swing of Mike Piazza's bat on Sept. 21, 2001, helped so many feel that the…
Expectation of a world with all electric cars downright absurd
If you’ve read the news lately, you may have learned the State of California is warning…
COMMENTARY — Suicide … never the answer, no matter how bad it might get
Man depression sucks. When I first realized I was too often too sad, it was 1989,…
With schools soon to reopen, please follow traffic laws near them
Whenever a new school year starts, we are reminded by local police departments of the importance…
COMMENTARY — No, you do not have the right to your own facts. Ask Alex Jones.
When a jury recently told Alex Jones he would be required to pay more than $40…
COMMENTARY — Sickeningly, because of bail reform, punk who pummeled New York City cop was released six hours after his heinous act
If you have not yet seen the video, perhaps you ought not. It’s that bad. But…