‘THANKS FOR A GREAT RELAY’ To the Editor: Relay For Life has been a nine-year tradition in…
Category: Opinion
Thoughts & Views: D’oh! Say it ain’t so.
For all you fans of Fox’s popular series, “The Simpsons,” be warned that Homer and Marge will be going their…
Thoughts & Views: Chaplain gave his life for others
Recently, a friend asked me if I had ever heard of an Army chaplain who had won the Medal…
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‘CIFELLI-SHERRY WAS RIGHT ON ABOUT KEARNY’ To the Editor: I would like to thank Barbara Cifelli-Sherry for validating…
Thoughts & Views: The sporting life
The recent passing of Walter Byers, who built up a then-fledgling National Collegiate Athletic Association into a college sports dynamo, brought…
Full letter: Cifelli-Sherry says enough with the Kearny bashing
This letter has gone viral on social media! Click the headline to find out why Barbara…
Thoughts & Views: In memory of a Marine
See the man in the front in the photo? The one with a camera instead of a rifle?…
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‘DON’T BAD-MOUTH KEARNY’ To the editor: It happened again! I ran into a former Kearny resident (a retired…
Drive time lunacy
The other day I was driving from Kearny to Jersey City along the Belleville Pike (Rt. 7) on a…
To protect and serve
This week, tens of thousands of police officers from across the United States, and around the world, will gather in Washington,…
Thoughts & Views: Baltimore & memories of unrest in Newark
How will future U.S. history textbooks explain the recent rioting in West Baltimore, I wonder. Can we even expect…
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‘HERE’S WHY I LEFT’ To the editor: I have read your recent article on Al Gilson, Principal at…
Thoughts & Views: To be, or not to be, ill-educated?
Now is the winter of our discontent. (Okay, it’s really spring, but it felt like winter last week and…
Thoughts & Views: How sweet was my habit
Now it can be told: Growing up as a kid, I was an addict. Seems that I just…
Thoughts & Views: School daze, school daze . . .
When I was a toddler, there was no such thing as pre-school or day-care. Formal education began at kindergarten, or,…
Thoughts & Views: Don’t give up on peace
In his Easter message delivered Sunday at Vatican City, Pope Francis rightly reminded us about the forgotten people of the…
Thoughts & Views: Drive the lane you’re in & don’t foul up
It’s down to the Final Four. No, not NCAA teams. (Since I don’t follow basketball, I have no idea…
Thoughts & Views: Maybe a Hollywood set crew could help
The U.S. Secret Service wants $8 million from Congress to build a fake White House so its agents can practice…
Thoughts & Views: ‘Great gift of faith’
(Editor’s note: Earlier this month, preceding its St. Patrick’s Parade, the Nutley Irish-American Alliance held its annual Mass at St.…
Let the games begin … again!
Money generally means power. And so it is with the American financial system. Just take a look at what’s happened…
Thoughts & Views: Dressed to kill (my brain cells)
Unless you have been hibernating with the groundhogs, you recognize the photo that accompanies this column. However, for the few of…
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‘A COWARDLY ACT’ To the editor, My family and I are deeply saddened and offended by a flyer…
Thoughts & Views: It happens every spring
In case you hadn’t noticed, pitchers and catchers have reported for the annual ritual of spring training. By April,…
Thoughts & Views: Have you seen this woman?
This week’s column is more accurately a public service announcement. The other day, we read a press release from the…
Thoughts & Views: Don’t gamble on park’s future
Okay, Gov. Christie, Assemblyman Prieto and Sen. Sweeney, I call your collective bluffs. It’s time to put all your cards…
Thoughts & Views: The world must never forget
Last Tuesday marked the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I am embarrassed to admit that I had not…
Thoughts & Views: Mars? Tempting but focus on Earth first
After listening to President Obama’s most recent State of the (Dis) Union speech last Tuesday night, I couldn’t help thinking, I’d…
CORRECTION
A story in the Jan. 13 issue of The Observer about a fire at Plaque Art…
Today’s vocabulary lesson
Ready for another column on the Great War? (I warned you I was fanatical about it.) This won’t deal with…
It only takes a cartoon
In the aftermath of the massacre at the satiric French publication Charlie Hebdo and, subsequently, the attack at a kosher…