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…