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Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Thoughts & Views EDITORIAL
Please, when possible, consider donating to food pantries
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ith Thanksgiving just over a week away, we at The Observer take this time to encourage all of our readers to consider donations to local food pantries. This year has been one for the history books and in many cases, not for the better. And the harsh reality is that there are more families this year who are in dire situations of food insufficiency. One only needs to look at the line that wraps around Laurel Avenue in Kearny from in front of the First Presbyterian Church of Arlington each Friday to know more and more families are relying on the generosity of others just to get by. Whether it’s the Kearny Food Pantry Network, other church-based pantries, the outreach program led by Phil Stafford, or anywhere else, we have learned, in the most difficult of ways, that most of the food programs locally are in need of help — just a week away from the holiday. These social justice agencies work so hard to put food on the tables of those who might otherwise go without. And so if you’re in the position to donate, please do so so that all sustenance programs may do what they do best — helping others. It is at times like these that we realize just how generous our local communities are. So let’ s all do our part to make this Thanksgiving one we can all remember for a long time to come, despite all else going on in the world.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Rose: Should we feel badly Murphy pays more than $200K in property taxes? To the Editor: I found a recent newspaper article ‘’Our Governor and His Wife Pay a Ton in Property Taxes’’ totally misleading and feel a comparison is in order. First, the governor’s 6.3-acre, $9.9 million mansion sits on prime real estate on the Navesink River. My home sits on a 32 by 75 foot lot, east of Schuyler Avenue, in North Arlington. The governor pays approximately $209,000 in taxes on his property. I pay over $8,000 on my property. The
governor’s property consists of approximately 270,000 square feet. Mine, 2,400 square feet. If the governor was required to pay $8,000 in taxes for every 2,400 square feet of his property, his tax bill would be approximately $900,000. Though the governor ran on reducing property taxes, that hasn’t happened. It seems at a closer look, we are the ones paying a ton of property taxes. Armand Rose North Arlington
Louisiana man says ‘No way, y’all’ to keeping year-round DST To the Editor: Hi Kevin. I recently read The Observer’s proposal (for keeping year-round Daylight Saving Time) and disagree completely. You talk about the supposed benefit of a longer, day but fail to address the completely dark morning kids would catch buses in. And the difficulty of people waking up at a reasonable time due to dark mornings. Along with — let’s just leave at least one thing in our life alone and go to Standard Time permanently. It’s called that for a reason. If you agree with manipulating time itself, then I’m sure next on the list is to rename days of the week so people who have a problem with Monday through
In Memoriam Mary A. Tortoreti 1942-2016
Lisa M. Feorenzo lisa@theobserver.com Co-owner/Advertising Dir.
Friday can be made happy to have only weekend names only. Point being, stop manipulating everything! Hold something sacred for once and that should start with time itself. And lastly, the power companies who pushed this idea about DST lowering our utility bills is a blatant lie. Check out information from State of Indiana to prove it. Thank you. Gary George Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Editor’s note: The Observer does not endorse changing the names of the days of the week.
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