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Despite dramatic protests, the Hoboken City Council has voted to oust Carmelo Garcia as executive director of the Hoboken Housing Authority, replacing him – at least for the moment – with Richard Fox. This only feeds into the perception that Mayor Dawn Zimmer has been out to get him – part of an escalating series …
The Hoboken Housing Authority is expected to fire Carmelo Garcia as its executive director this Monday. At least, this is what they put on the agenda. It’s the next step, but certainly not the last, in an ongoing political war between Garcia and the administration of Mayor Dawn Zimmer. Garcia has accused the Zimmer administration …
Gov. Christopher Christie might not have felt very comfortable coming to Jersey City last week to attend the funeral of Melvin Santiago, the police officer shot on July 13. Part of the reason is that the shooting could have been a lot worse. The Glock handgun stolen from a security guard by the killer happened …
If anyone thinks the next police chief of Hoboken won’t be a person very close to Mayor Dawn Zimmer, then I have a bridge to sell them. The Zimmer administration has changed the rules, allowing lieutenants to qualify for police chief for the first time in Hoboken history. This may be because a captain who …
A woman from one of the three senior citizen buildings in Secaucus called the Hudson Reporter last week to thank “Mayor Mike,” as Mayor Michael Gonnelli is best known, for the great time she had at the Fourth of July event held on the eve of the holiday. Yes, she said, rain forced the town …
The conflict between Hoboken Housing Authority Chairwoman Dana Wefer and Hoboken Housing Authority Executive Director Carmelo Garcia has taken yet another turn. (The HHA is the agency that oversees Hoboken’s federally funded low-income housing projects, a source of votes and contracts. Garcia is the paid head of the agency; Wefer chairs an unpaid board that …
Freeholder Bill O’Dea, who hopes to run for Hudson County Executive next year, got the message: everybody who is anybody politically in Hudson County politics is lining up behind the reelection bid of the incumbent, Tom DeGise. “When you have Nick Sacco and Brian Stack backing a [different] candidate, it is hard to see how …
Politics, like rust, never sleeps. So just when you think the shouting is over, the whole election cycle starts up again. Most immediately on the agenda will be November school board races in Jersey City, Hoboken, and West New York, along with a ballot initiative in Bayonne that would ask voters to approve an elected …
In a runoff election that may have had candidates on both sides biting their nails for more than an hour after the polls closed on June 10, James Davis upset Mark Smith to become the new mayor of Bayonne. Davis appears to have also swept his whole ticket of candidates in, although the battle between …
“Down here it’s just winners and losers, and don’t get caught on the wrong side of the line,” Bruce Springsteen once sang. But in the primary elections for freeholder in Hudson County, the conflicts were far from that simple. Some of the losers won strategic positions for future races, while others may have come to …