To the Editor: Councilman Mike Landy’s rebuttal to my letter of June 8 was beautifully written…
Category: Opinion
In the mood for a ghost story?
By Karen Zautyk No, that’s not a scene from an upcoming episode of “Outlander.” It’s a…
LETTER: Landy asks … ‘Where’s your responsibility, Barbara?’
To the Editor: The letter from Kearny Board of Education member Barbara Cifelli-Sherry in the June…
Letter: Queen of Peace Grammar School is thriving
Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to parents of students at Queen of Peace Grammar…
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…