Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
When I learned that there was a movie about a frazzled working mom struggling to juggle family and career, I thought about my mom, so unusual for her time so many years ago. She would say that a woman can’t do it all: career, marriage, children. What made it possible for her was that her …
With 17 candidates vying for two at-large City Council seats in the Jersey City special election, you would think voters might have a clear choice. But that’s not true if you look at the ballot, which has candidates spread out onto three rows with some linked and others left out on their own like unwanted …
Former Union City Deputy Police Chief Joe Blaettler has the right idea in going after legislative aide Mark Albiez in an effort to bring down U.S. Senator and Union City Mayor Brian Stack. Albiez in some ways is more the mayor of Union City than Stack is, at least when it comes to responding to …
Depending on whom you believe, Mayor Dawn Zimmer may have to wait until after her next election to change Hoboken’s Election Day from May to November. Now that the City Council has rescinded the ordinance that would have given them seven extra months in office, and would have allowed Zimmer to run for reelection on …
Rep. Albio Sires has absolutely refuted speculation that he will not be running for reelection to the House of Representatives, pointing out he is holding a fundraiser in Jersey City later this month. This hasn’t stopped speculation about it, or new variations of who will run in Sires’ place if the political bosses have their …
As soon as the “Summer Sounds by the Bay” concerts end (that’s Wednesday nights at 16th Street Park), you know that the summer is over. Boo hoo! On July 27, the Bayonne Senior Orchestra was booked and we got lucky – no rain, lovely breezes – just perfect for listening, dancing or simply enjoying. The …
Two months before a critical special election to fill two Jersey City council seats, a new rumor has been generated out of the camp of Councilman Steve Fulop, suggesting that it might be possible for Fulop to support Jersey City Mayor Jerremiah Healy in 2013 for a run at the 33rd District state Senate seat …
While he’s always been something of a political maverick, State Sen. and Union City Mayor Brian Stack seems a bit out of sorts these days. The most recent sign of it came during a parade in North Hudson earlier this month, when Stack allegedly charged up to West New York Freeholder Jose Munoz and wanted …
You have to love the gall of U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, as he ponders whether Hudson County officials learned anything from the 46 arrests in 2009 and some subsequent convictions as a result of the federal investigation that used Solomon Dwek as bait. Perhaps the biggest lesson is that the U.S. Attorney’s office will …
If there’s anyone who thinks Christopher Christie and Andrew Cuomo were unaware of the Port Authority’s plan to massively hike bridge and tunnel tolls, I have a bridge to sell you, and it isn’t the Bayonne Bridge. As governors of their respective states, Christie and Cuomo oversee the Port Authority, and while both have come …