Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Even as the hoopla over the start of the new year died down, the big cannons of political season have begun to roar in Jersey City as finally – after years of waiting for the head-to-head conflict between Councilman Steve Fulop and Mayor Jerramiah Healy – the election moves into its last phase. With Fulop …
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If memory serves me (and very often it doesn’t!) I remember FDR. If you don’t know who that was, you’ve gotta be very young or historically unaware. As kindergarteners we were ushered out of the classroom to stand on the sidewalk because President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s caravan was passing by. I even recall doing as …
In the old days, when people only had to worry about surviving a Soviet nuclear attack, they could be comforted by hiding under their desks at work or school, knowing once the blast wave hit, everything was over. The danger with the ongoing political war in Hudson County is that we will be living with …
With Christmas just around the corner, one can only speculate what each of the political people in Hudson County expects to get in their stocking – especially when so many people are at odds with so many other people. If there is going to be any “Grinch Who Stole Christmas Award” this year, it has …
Jersey City Councilman Steven Fulop recently got the endorsement of ministers in Ward F – only to find out later that perhaps he may not have. Usually, people pray to the Lord for things when they’ve tried everything else. But for mayoral candidate Fulop, the endorsement seemed to be good news, since he’ll have to …
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I’m lucky. I have one daughter and two sons. My daughter, Jolie, brings me the newest in fashion. My two sons, Jim and Andy, cater to my musical taste. Jim, who rescued me from the ravages of Hurricane Sandy, added a special present to my stay with him in Pennsylvania. He gifted me with the …
William Shakespeare and Will Rogers had very little good to say about lawyers, and had they lived to see what goes on in Hudson County these days, they might even have lowered their opinion. Any dog that wasn’t able to learn how to catch a fire truck should take a lesson from those attorneys dealing …
In what largely resembles a pre-school playground fight over who should fill the vacated seat of former Councilwoman Carol Marsh, those who opposed the appointment of James Doyle have won a temporary victory – proving almost nothing, except that no one appears to know what they are doing, and that things won’t likely get any …
Brian Stack wasn’t surprised when he saw the SUV with tinted windows pull out behind him into traffic three weeks ago. Stack’s routine as mayor of Union City and state senator is hardly a state secret. He usually drives around to check things out, and often goes down into Hoboken for a morning bagel or …
If Mother Nature couldn’t stop Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer from pushing through her agenda in the Nov. 6 election, how could her political opposition hope to? Hurricane Sandy should have a boon to Zimmer opponents, who floated the idea that during the storm, the Zimmer administration largely ignored the remote areas where her support was …