Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Considering the time we are living in, we are now all aware of the Madoff-type billionaire and also the Occupy Wall Street folks. So along comes a movie full of swindles, shoplifting, lies, deception, and fraud. Surprisingly, “Tower Heist” turns out to be a pretty feel-good comedy somewhat in the style of “Ocean’s Eleven” (that’s …
Those most savvy about the political process understand that the next election starts the day after the last election is over. This is particularly true in Jersey City, where two likely candidates for mayor in the 2013 election – incumbent Council President Peter Brennan and newly re-elected Councilwoman Viola Richardson – are slated to face …
Even though Democrats in Hudson County should be basking in their post election victory bliss, there a lot of bad feelings lingering from state and local feuds. The most serious of these appears to be one that has State Sen. and North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco fuming. In working out a number of deals that …
When federal authorities charged a Hoboken official with allegedly obtaining confidential city communications meant for Mayor Dawn Zimmer, federal authorities gave Hoboken bloggers an early gift for Christmas: three unnamed co-conspirators. Despite the heavy hints federal authorities put into the indictment that these three people are different from the people whom the pro-Zimmer Hoboken bloggers …
Perhaps the biggest loser in the Jersey City special election to fill two at-large City Council seats is Mayor Jerramiah Healy, from whom control of the City Council has been wrenched – although it is still unclear as to whether or not this election will help Healy’s arch rival, Councilman Steve Fulop, since Fulop did …
Rather than get stuck with a hospital the city of Hoboken can’t afford, members of the City Council agreed to a deal for parking that will last into the next century. In fact, hospital parking spaces may be available long after the hospital has been converted to luxury housing units and automotive transport has ceased …
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What a predicament! It’s not a serious one. If you had to pick between looking at the lean movie star Brad Pitt (lucky Angelina Jolie) or the ruggedly handsome George Clooney, would you be able to make a choice? So what did I do? I decided to enjoy both. In “Moneyball,” Brad Pitt is still …
If recent hearings in the U.S. Senate are any indication, New Jersey’s junior senator, Frank Lautenberg, is not likely to run for reelection. He kept talking behind the scenes about how the atmosphere in Washington, D.C. has changed and the spirit of cooperation that once made public service a privilege has vanished. At age 87, …
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Even before voters get to choose two new council-at-large candidates in this November’s special election in Jersey City, infighting is apparently underway behind the scenes in anticipation of the 2013 election for mayor. Apparently there is a serious push to get state Sen. Sandra Cunningham to commit to a mayoral run, and a power struggle …
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