Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey picked a fine time to raise PATH fares. Problems on the Hoboken and Jersey City lines to 33rd Street left people scrambling for two days last week to get to and from work. Even when the problem was fixed, a fire from the adhesive that the …
Not long ago, while driving south on Route 440, I saw the window open on the driver’s side of the car in front of me. The hand that emerged held the kind of cardboard food tray that often comes with takeout food. Plop! The tray fell onto the center divider, spraying the weeds with half-consumed …
The resignation of Steve Gallo from the Bayonne Municipal Utilities Authority appears to the last chapter in what was the administration of Mayor Mark Smith. Although supporters of Mayor James Davis – who defeated Smith in a June runoff election – still have their eye on Jason O’Donnell’s Assembly seat in next June’s Democratic primary, …
Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto will face a serious choice if and when Gov. Christopher Christie steps down to run for president at some point prior to 2016. Prieto will have to choose between feuding political factions for the Democratic nomination for governor – most likely between Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop and State Senate Pres. …
I was not interested in seeing “Kinky Boots,” the successful Broadway musical that won six Tonys. Admittedly, I’m not into quirky, aberrant, eccentric shows and I assumed that “Kinky Boots” with the book by Harvey Fierstein and the music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper would be all that. Surprise! I was wrong. My discerning partner …
When I was starting high school (yes, I can remember that far back!) my darling Aunt Rosie gave me and her daughter, Shirley, a five-year diary. As she handed it to us she said that her Shirley would write in it every day but she wasn’t sure that I would. Well, I did — and …
Some years ago when I was teaching at Bayonne’s Adult Evening School I’d start the first day of class by going around the room and asking each student how he felt about his first name. It got interesting results and it broke the ice. I always added my own reaction to my name — a …
The shine is coming off the newly-minted Bayonne administration as insiders begin to bicker. While supporters of former Mayor Mark Smith might be rubbing their hands in glee over the political turmoil, in truth, most sources point the finger at some factions that supported James Davis in the last election. At the center of the …
State Sen. and Union City Mayor Brian Stack has flatly refuted suggestions that he might “take back” his endorsement of Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise for reelection if State Sen. Sandra Cunningham leaps into the fray in the Democratic primary next year. “I’m with Tom,” Stack said. “I don’t take back endorsements once I give …
Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto admits that he is padding his wallet as a consultant for South Jersey Democratic warlords while serving as Hudson County Democratic chairman. Nothing wrong with holding a side job, but the fact that he is cavorting with politicos who will soon be supporting a political adversary to Mayor Steven Fulop’s gubernatorial …